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Mordialloc Beaumaris Conservation League – Minutes – 1st February 1994

Mayor’s Community Day

A decision was made for the League to participate once again in the Mayor’s Community Day, 27th March. Mara suggested that MBCL should purchase/acquire light weight trestles, table and display stand for paintings. New petition forms and hand-outs to be organised. Would the Home Environment Group like to be involved with the League again?

Bradshaw Park

Work continuing on the removal of non-endemic trees. The balance of the Park funding is $1074. Friends of Bradshaw Park plan to participate in the Mayor’s Community Day with plant sales and a display.

Braeside Park

Vacant industrial land abutting the freeway reservation has been sold to Myer Cole. Springvale council has issued permits to build on this land. Applications for two further developments are imminent. The freeway reservation is unchanged despite request to the Minister for Conservation Mr Birrell to revise the proposed route to remove the intrusion into Braeside Park.

Westernport and Peninsula Protection Society Inc

WPPS asked for a donation to pay for the extensive study of the effects of oil storage in Westernport Bay. MBCL donated $20.00

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Mordialloc Beaumaris Conservation League – Minutes – 7th December 1993

Bradshaw Park

With the help of the Grant money work is proceeding to gradually remove exotic trees. Council has installed a watering system which makes this task much easier. Friends of Braeside were involved with the Snapper Festival on Sunday November 14th. Plants were sold and the bus tour group were given an insight into the specialised nature of the work involved in maintaining indigenous plants in the park. Mr David Bainbridge and the Friends group are to be congratulated on the excellent work carried out so far.

Braeside Park

The Snapper Festival tour group were given a barbecue luncheon and a guided tour of the park by the rangers on Sunday 14th November. Land to the west of the freeway reservation is to be sold and sub-divided for an industrial estate. The freeway reservation will not be changed despite an undertaking given by Mr Mark Birrel when Shadow Minister for Conservation that this would be done when the Liberal Government was elected.

Mentone Lifesaving Club Extension

Objections have been lodged to the construction of tea rooms on this site because of the possibility of extension of the car park in the future to cater for beachgoers as well as tearoom customers. This will create further pressure on the fragile foreshore environment.

Carpark / Dixon Street Toilet Block

Following an on-site inspection with the City Engineer, 15th December, a compromise decision was reached in which tea-tree would be removed near the toilet block but the banksias and casuarinas would remain. Tea tree along the Beach Road fence would not be removed. The Engineer gave an undertaking that tea tree on the beach /cliff top side of the path would not be clipped to reduce their height.

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Mordialloc Beaumaris Conservation League – Minutes – 9th November 1993

The Spunner Pavilion, Mentone

A planning permit has been sought to add a kiosk/tea room to the Mentone Lifesaving Club. This will involve additional parking in Beach Road or in side streets. The “sails” on the upper balcony will be visually intrusive and will be seen as far away as Rickett’s Point. It is understood that residents have lodged objections as well as MBCL and the PPCC.

The Gordes Report / Beaumaris Park

MBCL are still awaiting an answer from Sandringham Natural Environment Group indicating whether they would be willing to co-operatively plan the foreshore from Rickett’s Point to Charman Road, Mordialloc with the City of Mordialloc. C. King will contact the City Engineer to see if they will with hold work in the park until a management plan has been completed.

The Agnew Report

A comprehensive report was presented to the committee outlining the work of Parkdale Research. The report claimed that an artificial reef of car tyres has been built off Carrum. This contravenes Environmental policy for the Bay. A new strain of mussel has been detected in the Bay as a result of ballast release. Glen spoke at one of the Braeside workshops organised by Bay Rescue during October. The workshops were very successful with 60 people in attendance.

Pollution of Mordialloc Creek

Enquiries to the Acting City Engineer about the regularity or otherwise of reports to Council concerning creek water analysis were unsatisfactory. It may be necessary to contact Melbourne Water to see if copies of the latest tests are available.
Scott Seymour of Melbourne Water states that it will require millions of dollars to remedy the problem of leachates from the Clarke Road rubbish tip entering drains in Braeside and then Mordialloc Creek.

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Mordialloc Beaumaris Conservation League – Minutes – 7th September 1993

Bradshaw Park

The tools and watering system which were required to maintain the Park have been supplied by Council.

Braeside Park

A Vic Roads engineer reports that the Minister Mark Birrell has asked that consideration be given to eliminating the freeway altogether and to concentrate on upgrading Boundary Road. However if the freeway is eliminated this may give Springvale Council the opportunity to extend the industrial estate towards the Park. This would not be in the best interest of Braeside Park,

The Gordes Report Beaumaris Park

MBCL members met with Keith Rendall, Beaumaris Conservation Society and Lisa Carty, Sandringham Nursery Bushland Supervisor in Beaumaris Park and discussed the possibility of Sandringham and Mordialloc Council working together to formulate a Management Plan for the whole foreshore area in Beaumaris Bay.

Leachates, Mordialloc Creek

AAT approval has been given for Pioneer Concrete to operate a large tip adjacent to an existing tip despite objections from Oakleigh Council who will have to bear the cost of pollution control when the tip site is filled. Melbourne Water are unhappy about the decision.

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Mordialloc Beaumaris Conservation League – Minutes – 3rd August 1993

Correspondence

Correspondence received from:-

  • Rod Atkinson MHR re essay competition
  • Deptartment of Trade & Industry, Environmental Division, United Kingdom
  • Draft Water Pollution Control in the Mordialloc Creek, DVA/Westernport Catchment, July 1993, EPA
  • Enforcement Policy EPA 1993
  • Marine and Coastal Special Investigation, Descriptive Report Land Conservation Council Calling for submissions.

Bradshaw Park

Helpers are urgently required on August 14,1993, to help spread mulch in the Park. A sign from Parks & Waterways has arrived and is to be erected to inform the public of the progress of the project.

Mordialloc Creek Landscape Plan

MBCL was invited to comment on the creek landscape plans. In our submission we strongly objected to the proposal to plant an avenue of Canary Island palms from Nepean Hwy to the Centreway on Beach Road because this contradicts Council’s successful policy of planting indigenous species as a means of creating an environment unique to Mordialloc. Proposed lighting along the creek should be uniform.

Beaumaris Park

League fears about the work being carried out by the LEAP personnel in the Park have been unfortunately justified. Clearing low and dead tea-tree branches and disturbance of the soil will preclude natural re-vegetation of the area. A meeting has been arranged on Wednesday 25th August to discuss the work. The meeting will be in the Beaumaris Park at 4pm, near the Charman Road corner.

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Mordialloc Beaumaris Conservation League – Minutes – 1st June 1993

Bradshaw Park

S. Calvert-Smith reported that Friends of Bradshaw Park are still awaiting the $3000 grant money.
The Friends have plans to extend the underground watering system to obviate the necessity of using the heavy above ground hoses. The group are applying to Council for a grant to finance the watering system

Braeside Park

Conservation Minister Mark Birrell has still not replied to our letter re the change of route for the proposed freeway, although plans are reputed to be drawn up for the change of route.
Rangers report that leachates are still entering the Braeside wetlands from a Springvale rubbish tip.

Mordialloc Creek Report May 1993

This report states that it is possible for leachates to enter Mordialloc Creek via the drains, Heatherton, Settlement, Dunlop and Dingley.
Brian Wallwork, EPA Industrial Waste Management, states that “Nothing much can be done about leachates from old filled tips which were not clay lined”!! Clearly this situation is far from satisfactory and will impact on Port Phillip Bay for years to come.
J.Com, who is liaising with Residents Against Proposed Rip Sites, reported that the EDO and Monash University Honours Graduates are prepared to take up this issue.

Snapper Festival

Virginia Carter of Bay Rescue outlined their Snapper Festival proposal and is seeking assistance from community groups in organising the Festival to take place over three days in October. The League is prepared to offer some assistance but we need to decide in what capacity that assistance is to be given. Amy ideas?????

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Mordialloc Beaumaris Conservation League – Minutes – 4th May 1993

Bradshaw Park

Congratulations to the Friends of Bradshaw Park who successfully applied to Parks & Waterways for a grant of $3000 to re-vegetate the Park. The Friends intend to plant 600 native species in the area. A report appeared in the local press together with a photo of the Mayor Hazel Pierce planting a tree.

Braeside Park

The Minister for Conservation, Mark Birrell has not yet replied to our letter asking him if he still adhered to his statement, October 7th, 1990 at a picnic organised at Braeside Park by the League, that “there was support for a much larger part of the park being saved and the freeway easement being shifted towards the area’s western boundary.” However we understand that after having flown over the proposed route he has directed that the route be moved towards the west which will include an additional 50 hectares in the park!

Mordialloc Creek Wetlands

A proposal by the Society for Growing Native Plants that Governor Road be built over the proposed freeway has been accepted by Vic Roads. This will enable the Braeside wetlands to go under Governor Road onto the Haines’s property part of which will also become a wetland. A pedestrian/bike path will be constructed under Governor Road.

The Agnew Report

Algae bloom is still in evidence in Port Phillip Bay. A conductivity metre would be useful in testing water temperature. The metre costs $200.
Glen as the League’s delegate to the PPCC was unhappy with the reception which his MBCL report received from the Secretary of the PPCC, G.Goode. Glen attempted to warn delegates of the effectf leachates from the tipping sites in Spring- vale, Heatherton and Dingley is having on Port Phillip Bay. A letter has been sent to G.Goode expressing our concern at the summary dismissal of the report. The League has since received a Melbourne Water report which confirms that leachates are entering the creek via drains running through the tipping sites.
A letter will be sent to the City Engineer asking when signs will be erected on Mordialloc North beach warning people not swim near the pier because of pollution entering the Bay from Mordialloc Creek.

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