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Wader Beach for Birds Not Litter Wader Beach for Birds not Litter October 2014 to October 2015 Final report on the Litter Hotspots Project for Williamstown. 28/10/15 1 Project Sponsors Project Partners Prepared and published by the Wader Beach for Birds not Litter project Team Co-ordinator Dr Marilyn Olliff Treasurer Friends of Williamstown Wetlands. www.friendsofwilliamstownwetlands.org.au www.facebook/FOWWInc 28/10/15 2 Contents 1. Introduction ............................................................................................... 4 2. Litter hotspots program ............................................................................. 6 3. Litter survey ............................................................................................... 7 4. Partnerships and community involvement .............................................. 13 5. Planning for the future at Wader Beach .................................................. 18 6. Wader Beach clean up ............................................................................ 20 7. ‘Wader Beach for Birds not Litter’ conclusion ......................................... 21 Google map showing the general areas of Wader Beach and Greenwich Bay. Greenwich Bay Wader Beach Acknowledgements This project was funded by the Metropolitan Waste and Resource Recovery Group as part of the Victorian Government’s Litter Hotspots Program. Friends of Williamstown Wetlands provided overall coordination for the project with significant support from volunteers from Friends of Williamstown Wetlands, Friends of Greenwich Bay, Jawbone Marine Sanctuary Care Group, Scab Duty and 3016 Beach Patrol. Port Phillip Eco-Centre provided significant assistance at the start of the project and undertook the litter analysis. Hobsons Bay City Council entered into a partnership with Friends of Williamstown Wetlands and contributed additional funds and in-kind assistance. Parks Victoria provided support with site access and safety risk assessments. Report author: Dr Marilyn Olliff, Treasurer, Friends of Williamstown Wetlands. Photographs were provided by FOWW, PPEC, JMSCG. 28/10/15 3 1. Introduction Friends of Williamstown Wetlands Incorporated (FOWW) is a group of volunteers that have worked to maintain and enhance the Jawbone Reserve in Williamstown for many years. The group has recently been working on a bird hide in Paisley-Challis Wetlands at the western end of the reserve, adjacent to a secluded stretch of beach locally known as Wader Beach. Wader Beach stretches along Port Phillip Bay for about 800 metres from the Paisley-Challis Drain into the western end of the Jawbone Marine Sanctuary. The beach is an environmentally sensitive area. Potential visitors are deterred by difficulty of access, which helps to protect it. It is home to local water birds and, in the summer months, to many migratory birds from the northern hemisphere. The beach is fringed with saltmarsh, which protects the shoreline as a feeding ground for birds and provides nurseries for a wide range of marine life. Wader Beach Kororoit Creek Paisley- Challis drain ‘Saltmarsh’ refers to a coastal ecosystem between land and saltwater. It is fast disappearing around Port Phillip Bay due to the impact of a growing human population. An important aspect of the beach that helps to maintain its remnant saltmarsh and make it a relatively safe place for the birds to visit is that it has always been fairly isolated. An abattoir existed on the shoreline in the 1800s and in 1877 the Victorian Rifle Association established a rifle range across the entire area now known as Jawbone Reserve. The abattoir ceased to operate early on but the rifle range didn’t close until 1990. The existence of the rifle range meant that the area remained largely untouched by European settlement. While this has been beneficial to the retention of the saltmarsh ecosystem, the beach has not been cleared of litter for many years resulting in a significant build-up of waste. 28/10/15 4 Red-necked stints migrate from their nesting grounds in Siberia to Victoria, including Wader Beach, for the summer months. FOWW raised concerns about the amount of litter accumulating on Wader Beach with Hobsons Bay City Council (HBCC) and Parks Victoria (PV) and sought funding from the Metropolitan Waste and Resource Recovery Group (MWRRG) under their Litter Hotspots Program. The purpose of the funding was to identify the major source and nature of the litter that was building up on Wader Beach The overall aim is to clean up the beach to protect this valuable environment. Jawbone Marine Sanctuary Care Group (JMSCG) volunteered to assist with the project by providing in-kind help. JMSCG are particularly interested in the protection of the Jawbone Marine Sanctuary, which extends into Wader Beach. At the start of the project, the scope was expanded to include a litter survey at Greenwich Bay at the request of the Friends of Greenwich Bay (FOGB). Greenwich Bay is on the western banks of the Yarra where it flows into Port Phillip Bay. It is a popular area for recreational anglers, dog walkers, other pedestrians and cyclists who use the path passing through the area. The car park also serves as an out-of-the-way place for people to socialise at night. FOGB collecting litter along the Yarra 28/10/15 5 2. Litter hotspots program Grant application MWRRG administer the Litter Hotspots Project as part of the Victorian Government’s A Cleaner Yarra River and Port Phillip Bay – A Plan of Action. The purpose of the project is to protect the unique natural assets of the Yarra River and Port Phillip Bay. The Litter Hotspots Project provides targeted funding and grants programs to support local government, business and community partnership initiatives to tackle litter in their local areas. (www.mwrrg.vic.gov.au/local-government/grants-and-funding). In August 2014 FOWW applied for a grant from MWRRG to undertake a survey of the litter at Wader Beach. HBCC agreed to be our project partners and have contributed funds and in-kind help to provide us with support. In October 2014 FOWW was awarded the grant and commenced work by contacting Port Phillip Eco-Centre (PPEC) for advice and assistance. PPEC is a major participant in the overall Litter Hotspots Project and is focused on understanding and addressing litter problems in Port Phillip Bay. FOGB approached FOWW and asked to join the project by undertaking a similar survey in Greenwich Bay, which also has a significant litter problem. Project objectives The key purpose of the Wader Beach project is to protect the ecosystems of Wader Beach by investigating the nature and source of the litter on Wader Beach as well as developing an action plan to clean up the area and minimise future build-up of litter. Litter comes in all sizes, from macro to very small Under the conditions of the grant, FOWW undertook to deliver the following objectives as part of their Litter Hotspots Project. Objective 1 Understand the nature and extent of litter on Wader Beach and nearby locations. 28/10/15 6 Objective 2 Build partnerships to develop volunteer capacity for litter projects. Objective 3 Formulate an action plan to reduce future build up of litter. Objective 4 Work together to improve the condition of Wader Beach. Details of how these objectives were met are set out in sections 3 to 6 of this report. 3. Litter survey In order to meet Objective 1 Understand the nature and extent of litter on Wader Beach and nearby locations, the following tasks were undertaken. a. A litter survey was conducted at Wader Beach and at Greenwich Bay during the six-month period December 2014 to May 2015. b. Litter observations were made at the waterways that led into Port Phillip Bay at the western end of Wader Beach, namely Paisley-Challis drain and Kororoit Creek. c. General litter collections at Wader Beach away from the survey sites were undertaken to provide additional information on the types of litter on the beach. One of the concerns for FOWW was that environmental damage might be caused by volunteers visiting Wader Beach. In addition, there was a need to address any safety issues for the volunteers themselves. To minimise this concern, a brochure was developed and distributed to all volunteers, setting out safety requirements and raising awareness of the environmental sensitivity of the area. A copy of the brochure is provided as a separate document. As Wader Beach is within Parks Victoria management area, PV undertook a job safety analysis and provided volunteer coordinators with a check-list for on-site use and a ‘sign-in’ sheet for insurance purposes. Greenwich Bay is managed by HBCC and so FOWW extended its insurance cover to include the volunteers at Greenwich Bay for the duration of the project. All volunteers were given a verbal introduction to the sites and the environmental and safety issues before commencing work. Wader Beach and Greenwich Bay surveys The two areas, Wader Beach and Greenwich Bay are very different, one being on the western shoreline of Port Phillip Bay with little or no public access and the other being a popular recreational area for families and fishermen along the banks of the Yarra. FOWW and FOGB applied the same survey methodology in both areas under the guidance of PPEC. 28/10/15 7 Neil Blake of PPEC visited Wader Beach and Greenwich Bay on a number of occasions throughout the project to provide advice on selecting litter monitoring sites, collecting data, and general activities related to a litter survey. Three locations were selected at Wader Beach to provide a wide coverage of this shallow, curved but otherwise fairly uniform bay. At each location two 4x4 metre sites were marked out, one just above the mean high water mark (MHW) (the low site) and a second parallel site a further 4 m inland (the high site). The high sites were selected to be just above a low (~0.5 m) bank above the beach gravel/sand mix and that contained some permanent coastal vegetation. Two locations were selected at Greenwich Bay, with two 4x4 metre sites at each location Volunteers collected and identified all the litter in each survey site on a monthly basis.
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