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Help us to protect the Moore River Estuary by coming along to the FOMRE 2019 AGM at the Guilderton Country Club on Friday 19th April 2019 (Good Friday) at 3pm. Everyone is welcome! A reminder to our members, the 2019 membership is now due, a…
Statutory Planning Committee Defers Approval of MRS SubdivisionThe Moore River South Subdivision Plan was before the Statutory Planning Committee (SPC) for renewal on 20th November 2018, the 2014 approval having lapsed. FOMRE was invited to make a deputation, following which the SPC voted to defer a decision to obtain legal advice from…
Moore River South Renewal of Subdivision ApprovalYour committee has been busy lately! Our ongoing attention to the actions of the Moore River Company (MRC) has revealed the company is instigating their plan for the south side of the river. FOMRE understands MRC is attempting to meet the ‘detailed design requirements’ of…
Water Quality Monitoring and Estuarine Environment Values StudiesFriends of Moore River Estuary conducted their most recent water quality testing on 17th August 2018. Although the support of NACC has been lost, DWER (Department of Water and Environmental Regulation) continue to come up from Perth to collect important data about the estuary with…
Guilderton Planting Day June 2018The Guilderton Planting Day June 2018 was a great success – we came, we planted, aand it rained! Enthusiastic volunteers came together on the morning of Sunday 10th June to help get seedlings planted on the Guilderton north dunes. This is the fourth, and hopefully,…
2018 FOMRE AGM and Sunset CruiseOur 2018 FOMRE AGM was conducted on the Moore River itself. Attendees enjoyed an evening cruise which finished at the mouth with the sun setting before us. It was delightful. Our progress was chronicled and the committee returned for another year ‘protecting Moore River Estuary’. …
Water Quality Monitoring August 2017The water quality monitoring conducted by Friends of Moore Fiver Estuary on August 25th 2017 was a resounding success with results showing a healthy river. The river level was as low as it has been for quite a while, but we were able to make…
Moore River Estuary Update – water quality testingFriends of Moore River Estuary is pleased to have commenced our second year of water quality testing of the estuary. On 9th March we tested the 5 sites from the mouth to up past Woodridge with the support of the Dept of Water, NACC and…
Going with the Flow on Moore RiverCitizen Science continues at Moore River Estuary thanks to a strong partnership between the Friends of Moore River Estuary (FOMRE), NACC and Department of Water. Last Friday saw the third round of estuary monitoring for the NACC Healthy Estuaries project supporting FOMRE to collect valuable…
Photo Monitoring Guilderton-Moore RiverAre you curious to learn more about Photo Monitoring and how it is applied in Guilderton-Moore River? Photomon You can follow the photos taken by Bob Johnson over three years for the six Guilderton Beach Sites on the Northern Agricultural Catchment Council (NACC) Beach Monitoring…
Australian Coastal Ocean Radar NetworkAustralian Coastal Ocean Radar Network (ACORN) Did you ever wonder what the rusty old locked container on the northern dunes above The Groyne at Guilderton was used for? It is an ACORN (Australian Coastal Ocean Radar Network) station which uses land based high frequency radar…
Water Quality Monitoring with NACCPeople + passion = healthy estuaries at Guilderton Passionate people are leading the way in a newly developed citizen science project at Guilderton, which aims to collect valuable water quality data on the health of the Moore River Estuary. Coordinated by the Northern Agricultural Catchment…
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Deputation to Statutory Planning Committee
FOMRE Submission October 2018 written by Roger Severn
Community Protecting Water and River Ways
Watch this beautiful story on the NACC website about local volunteer groups working together to protect precious water resources for future generations.