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Water Quality Monitoring Workshop

Join us in the beautiful surrounds of Lake Dewar Discovery Camp at Myrniong for a workshop on local water quality issues, pollution sources, and how citizens can monitor and assess water quality. These factors can impact biodiversity including platypus and other inhabitants of the river. After a brief presentation indoors, we will collect and analyse …

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Platypus Watch – Putting Perridak Back on Track Citizen Science Project (Session 5)

Be part of this exciting water quality monitoring project, one component of our larger mission of increasing platypus populations in the lower Werribee River. Platypus Watch is being run in partnership with Victoria University, whose researchers and specialist Environmental Engineers will guide citizen scientists over a 12-month period to test water quality. The sessions will happen …

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Friends of Lower Werribee River

This monthly conservation group meet on the 1st Thursday of the month, February to November to support the health of the lower Werribee River. For our May session we will be improving the biodiversity and vegetation within Presidents Park. We will be mulching, hand weeding and removing tree guards. We will be working in ‘Millennium …

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