Rivercare - Wingecarribee River
The Oxley College Landcare Group began rivercare activities in 1989 and continued with a range of projects and improvements to the riparian area until 2011. In 2019 Wingecarribee Shire Council established the Burradoo Rivercare Group.
The Oxley College Landcare Group began Rivercare activities in 1989 with Ian Royds as one of it's founding members. This group continued with many projects through to 2011 when Ian left the school. In that time, with assistance from grants, they restored riparian vegetation along kilometres of river frontage upstream and downstream of Burradoo, removing weed species, monitoring physical/chemical water quality parameters, did regular aquatic invertebrate sampling analyses, fenced and planted over 7000 trees, set up solar stock watering systems, released dung beetles to sequester animal faeces into the ground to reduce nutrient inflows to the river, cleared pest willows from Berrima to Joadja with the Willow Warriors group and did other small maintenance tasks along the river. In 2019 the Wingecarribee Shire Council established the Burradoo Rivercare Group to encourage ongoing work along the river. The group is only small but works with council Bushcare staff to continue restoration of the riparian zone on Council land. With the reformation of the SOuthern HIghlands Landcare Network we hope to continue this work on private lands as well.