Sunshine Coast Council

Catchment planning

Development of a Pumicestone Passage and Catchment Acton Plan in underway by council in partnership with community and industry stakeholders and the Moreton Bay Regional Council.

This Plan incorporates a whole-of-catchment approach, covering the Pumicestone's freshwater sub-catchments, wetlands and coastline and is a key deliverable of the Sunshine Coast Waterways and Coastal Management Strategy (2011-21).

Through a series of workshops a number of issues and management actions have been identified to protect the natural, economic and social values of the Pumicestone.

In 2012-13 the Queensland Government committed $450 000 towards implementation of on ground actions identified in the Plan.

• Pumicestone  Focus Group
• Moreton Bay Regional Council
• Queensland Government

Council's Environment Levy provides funding for :

• Land acquisitions to protect high valued bushland e.g. Racemosa Environmental Reserve, Landsborough.
• Community Partnerships to support operational activities of not-for-profit community groups who provide
  • volunteer opportunities
  • litter collection
  • seagrass monitoring, and
  • coordination of Clean Up Australia Day
• Landholders Environment Grants to support rural landholders to
  • prevent erosion and sediment delivery to waterways
  • improve streambank vegetation
  • strengthen wildlife corridors and links, and
  • contribute to landscape scale protection, monitoring and rehabilitation.

• Ratepayers
• Community group - Night Eyes Association Inc.[Include7]
• Rural landholders
• Primary producers