Landcare Riparian Restoration Grants
Local Land Services has funded 50 projects under the Riparian Restoration Project for grants to restore riparian areas suffering cumulative damage from recent droughts, bushfires and flooding across NSW.
These projects across regional NSW are being delivered by Landcare and natural resource management (NRM) incorporated organisations.
These organisations will be undertaking grass-roots projects designed to restore and future-proof damaged riparian areas.
Waterways across regional NSW have suffered cumulative damage from recent natural disasters, such as drought, bushfires and floods.
The program will fund on-ground riverbank and stream restoration works, such as tree planting and other minor on-farm erosion works to help mitigate erosion and ensure riverbanks and the wider ecosystems are healthy.
The Landcare Riparian Restoration Grants program is funded through the NSW Government’s $200 million Regional Recovery Package.
This project commenced in 2022 and will be completed by 31 August 2023.
Projects
| Applicant | Project |
|---|---|
| All Sustainable Futures | Goonellabah Tucki Landcare Incorporated |
| Bellinger Landcare Inc | Station Creek Riparian Restoration and Estuary Protection |
| Big Scrub Landcare Inc | Post-flood riparian rehabilitation for six critically endangered Big Scrub lowland subtropical rainforest remnants |
| Boatharbour Landcare | Reviving Boatharbour Riverbanks |
| Capertee Valley Landcare Inc | Glen Davis Reserve - Riparian Restoration Project |
| Central West Lachlan Landcare Inc | Stream Restoration in Back Yamma and Cookamidgera |
| Clarence Landcare | Nymboida River Post Bushfire Biosecurity Weed Control |
| Community Environment Network | Restoring riparian areas on private lands with Landcare green teams |
| Condobolin and District Landcare | Wallaroi Creek Stock Access Works |
| Conservation Volunteers Australia | Supporting Monaltrie Landcare in riparian restoration post-flooding |
| Coonamble Neighbourhood Centre | Coonamble-Castlereagh River Restoration |
| Corowa District Landcare Inc | River Street Wetland Restoration Project |
| Deniliquin Kolety Lagoons Landcare Group | Restoration of aquatic fringing plants on Edward Kolety River. |
| Dunedoo Coolah Landcare | Cobbora - Swans, Sedges, Shrubs and Trees |
| GLENRAC | Enhancing Aquatic Habitat for Endangered Species through Riparian Protection |
| Goonellabah Tucki Landcare Incorporated | Restoration and expansion of riparian regeneration area along flood affected Upper Tucki Tucki Creek in Goonellabah |
| Gwymac | Controlling weeds and erosion to protect and restore Fraser’s creek - Nullamanna |
| Gwymac | Riparian protection and restoration in Swan Brook creek and catchment – Inverell |
| Hastings Landcare Incorporated | Post Flood Pappinbarra River Restoration - Hastings Landcare |
| Hawkesbury-Nepean Landcare Network and Macdonald Riverkeepers | Restoring Remote Rivers, Hawkesbury |
| Holbrook Landcare | Upper Murray Bushfire recovery |
| Hovell's Creek | Hovells Creek riparian restoration project |
| Hunter Regional Landcare | Regenerating Abbotts Flat |
| Hunter Regional Landcare | Bringing back Congewai Creek - Sweetmans to Coolawine |
| Lambs Valley Community & Landcare Inc. | Lambs Valley Creek – upper catchment restoration program |
| Luskintyre Landcare Group Inc | Weed control on the Hunter River at Luskintyre |
| Macleay Landcare | The Toorumbee Creek to Belgrave Falls Reach Plan Implementation project |
| Macleay Landcare | Five Day Creek Riparian Corridor Restoration Project |
| Nambucca Valley Landcare | Bowraville Connections |
| Narromine Shire Council | Gin Gin Wier Road Reserve Restoration Project |
| OceanWatch Australia | Post-bushfire Mangrove Restoration in Coastal NSW |
| OzFish Unlimited | Saving the confluence of Washpool creek and Tenterfield Creek . |
| OzFish Unlimited | Flourishing farms through Murray River riparian restoration |
| OzFish Unlimited | Rocky reefs and woody habitat for Tarcutta Creek |
| OzFish Unlimited | Mann River Riparian Restoration |
| OzFish Unlimited | Wambuul Macquarie River Reserves: Restoring Habitat Post Drought |
| Queanbeyan Landcare Inc. | Jerrabomberra Creek Riparian Restoration project |
| Rappville and Surrounds Landcare Group Incorporated | Riparian Recovery in Rappville and Surrounds: Cat’s Claw Creeper on Flood and Fire impacted Creeks |
| Richmond Landcare | Mulgum Creek 2022 Flood Restoration Project |
| South Lismore Duck Pond Landcare | South Lismore Duck Pond Landcare Riparian Restoration Project |
| Summerhill Creek Care | Risky Paddock Drought & Flood Damage Restoration |
| Tuckombil Landcare Inc | Teven Memorial Park Riparian Restoration |
| Tweed Landcare | Supporting grass-roots Landcare groups restoring flood-damaged riparian areas. |
| Upper Shoalhaven Landcare Group | Budjong Creek, Erosion Control, Windellama |
| Websters Creek Catchment Landcare | Calico Creek Flood Restoration |
| Weddin Landcare | Ooma Creek Tributary Restoration |
| Western Landcare NSW Inc | WLNSW Riparian Restoration Collaboration Project |
| Western Murray Land Improvement Group | Koondrook Perricoota Forest Inlet Channel Revegetation |
| Yass Urban Landcare Inc | Restoring the Riparian Corridor on Manton Creek |
| Young Local Aboriginal Land Council | Riparian restoration of ancient Aboriginal grinding site and natural spring area |
Resources
Definitions
Regional NSW refers to all areas of the state outside of metropolitan Greater Sydney, Newcastle and Wollongong. A map is available here for further clarification.
A key objective of this grants program is to fund grass-roots projects that will restore and future-proof damaged riparian areas.
Riparian area (also referred to as Zone or Land) - is any land which adjoins, directly influences, or is influenced by a body of water (Land & Water Resources, 1999). Riparian areas include land alongside creeks, streams, gullies, rivers and wetlands.
These areas perform a range of important environmental functions such as:
- providing bed and bank stability and reducing bank and channel erosion
- protecting water quality by trapping sediment, nutrients and other contaminants
- providing diversity of habitat for terrestrial, riparian and aquatic plants (flora) and animals (fauna)
- providing connectivity between wildlife habitats
- conveying flood flows and controlling the direction of flood flows
- providing an interface or buffer between developments and waterways
- providing passive recreational uses
More information
Enquiries and specific questions about the program can be emailed to landcare.admin@lls.nsw.gov.au