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Water Releases Through the Lough Calvert Drainage Scheme
Readers of the Colac Herald will have seen a recent front-page article with calls from a local farmer to start the release of water from Lake Colac into the Lough Calvert Drainage Channel at the northern end of the lake, near Irrewarra. His...
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FOTB Newsletter – January 2023
Our latest newsletter with updates on issues, activities and events relevant to the waterways of Victoria’s Barwon River for those who love our river system – ‘Friends of the Barwon’.
Joint statement regarding the Gippsland and Central Region Sustainable Water Strategy
Friends of the Barwon was formed by concerned citizens in response to cease to flow events in the Barwon river. in 2016, there was no flow for four months at Winchelsea and in 2018, for three months. These “cease to flow events “critically affect survival of aquatic...
Platypus eDNA study results
The recent Environmental DNA (eDNA) assessment of platypus distribution in the Middle Barwon River, incorporating grass-roots citizen science, contributed to the largest continuous survey for this iconic species in Victoria. The findings are summarised in the report:...
Friends of the Barwon Digital Brochure 2021
https://youtu.be/9zrzhy3x2K0 The Friends of the Barwon team has been busy during “lockdown” and we are excited to share this digital brochure with you as one example of how we have used our time expeditiously! Whilst we are all enjoying excellent flows across the...
Juliet Le Feuvre presentation for Friends Of The Barwon AGM on 22 Nov 2019
Notes from the Annual General Meeting Rivers are living entities, like plants and animals, that need water to stay healthy. Otherwise, they are just drains. If more than 30 per cent of flows are extracted for consumptive uses, river health will suffer. So said Juliet...
About FOTB
‘To be an independent knowledge-based community leader and educator for the protection and improvement of the ecosystem of the Barwon catchment’.
A healthy, flowing and life sustaining Barwon River system is both our goal and our obligation to the generations to come.
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Our River System
The Barwon system comprises two basins or catchments and includes the Yarrowee /Leigh and Moorabool rivers, and several hundred kilometres of minor tributaries. It closely approximates the G21 region boundary.
State government estimates predict a population increase for this region of 35% by 2031. Roughly 3/4 of this population live in the greater Geelong area so the majority of the catchment population are urban dwellers.
The surface and ground water within the Barwon System provide the bulk of the water used by the population within its catchment. This has placed enormous strain on its rivers resulting in frequent cease to flow events, acid releases causing large fish die-offs and a myriad of other impacts.
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Friends of the Barwon is a registered charity and we are currently in the process of applying for endorsement as a deductible gift recipient (DGR). As such, donations will be tax deductible and donors will be able to deduct the amount of their donation from their taxable income when they lodge their tax return – once our DGR status is confirmed..
Fortunately, as we await the decision on our DGR application, we are able to offer donors the opportunity to make a donation indirectly to FOTB via Landcare Victoria Inc. (LVI). To do this, visit the link to the LVI donations page and specify Friends of the Barwon Inc. as the group that you wish to donate to. All donations over $2.00 will be tax deductible.
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