Upper Primary School Environmental Education Program

One of the many invasive weeds on the block - Kudzu. Is there still a chance to stop it? Keep your eyes out for this fast growing vine with the characteristic large lobed leaves. It quickly grows up and over any trees and shrubs and smothers their further development.

School Resources

Most of our web site sections have useful information about Kedron Brook and more broadly catchment management. These are readily linked via the navigation bars on the left hand side. Look particularly at 'Bushcare Groups', 'Kedron Brook Environment', 'Articles and Reports', 'Educational Resources', and 'Projects and Funding'. Our 'News and Events" section gives access to a range of specific subjects. This section also links to archives of KBCB-WPSQ Newsletters from the 'Downloads' sub-section.

The following specific links point to a range of references and guidelines about Kedron Brook and catchment management in general. You'll also find the search box above most useful to poke around on this web site. Don't forget that this search box is set to find keywords exclusively on this web site alone! Note that the order of located links to be found by this process is not necessarily in that of most relevance to you. Skim through while reading the brief descriptions for their relevance. Do play around with the use of different combinations of keywords in your searches.

Moreton Bay Regional Council (MBRC) Remember that although most of Kedron Brook is within Brisbane City Council (BCC) area, this council controls and nurtures a significant portion in the upper reaches of the stream. Their web site has particularly useful information in their 'Environment' section.

Focus on Kedron Brook, its history, development, flora and fauna, and catchment management.

Know your creek - Kedron Brook This is the Brisbane City Council (BCC) special brochure about our Brook including understanding catchments and waterways. It also gives a useful section on the past influences of the aborigines followed by the European settlement.

Information about Kedron Brook Catchment This is the link to our Kedron Brook Environment section on this web site

Kedron Brook Fauna Habitat Study This links to our detailed report on the Brook by Dr. Seonaid Melville. Remember the title says 'Fauna Habitat' so the report will say a lot about the conditions and suitability of their environment as well as the fauna. This report informs and it is still relevant up to this day!

Environmental Sustainability

Brisbane City Council – Environmental garden  Green choice gardening, appropriate to an urban catchment.

Brisbane City Council - Towards zero waste  Towards zero waste for Brisbane residents and businesses and less down our creek!.

Brisbane City Council - Weeds How to identify weeds, their cost to our community, and means of eradicating them.

Environmental monitoring

Waterwatch is a national community water quality monitoring network that encourages all Australians to become active in the protection of their waterways. A very practical site in the provision of suitable resources for understanding and application.

Ferny Grove State High Fish Snapshot Day A visual example of the conduct of a typical Fish Snapshot; a water quality study, based upon Waterwatch methods, as carried out by students of Kedron Brook SHS some years ago but still relevant.

Environmental inquiry is a web site that provides ideas for running inquiry based investigations in science.

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Landcare management

Water management issues
The Junior Landcare Home Page gives a different slant on our environment relating to land use as well as to such factors as biodiversity and climate change but also deals with waterways, marine and coastal concerns.

This large SQID is at the stormwater outfall from Tomsett Park just opposite the Ferny Grove Railway station. The water flows into the left hand section where large solids are retained by a metal screen. The outfall runs into the large settling pond with aquatic plants designed to slow the flow and help the finer solids settle. A small gravel wall dams the flow but allows egress into Kedron Brook flowing from the right towards Ferny Way road bridge. (Photo Feb 2004)

Water management issues

The South East Queensland Healthy Waterways is a collaboration between government, industry, researchers and the community. This web site covers a comprehensive compilation of important facts on water with a particular focus on South East Qld. It also provides useful links relating to water education in general. Try another of their web sites, 'Water by design'. Look particularly at their 'Guidelines and Resources' section including useful factsheets and a huge resource, 'Concept design guidelines for water sensitive urban design (WSUD)' .

The Brisbane Flood Flag Map
This useful resource from BCC shows watercourses, streets, properties and parklands. In particular, it shows overland flow paths and where flooding may occur from creeks, rivers and storm tides.

Planning and Building Rules Covers Brisbane City Council requirements to manage growth and change in Brisbane, and thus our catchment. The Sustainable Planning Act 2009 is the Queensland legislation that is providing the push behind the improvement of water quality in developing urban areas as examplified in the next link.

Bushland and Waterways details Brisbane City Council's general approach. See various documents under the headings of 'Catchments and waterways', 'Urban stormwater management', 'Stormwater quality improvement devices (SQIDs)', 'Natural channel design (NCD)', 'Erosion treatments for urban creeks', and other important related applications on their Technical documents page.

MBRC-Waterways Management This links to Moreton Bay Regional Council's Waterway management sub-section in their Environment section. Surf up as well as down the links for some great information on all aspects of catchment management. Find gold within some of their management strategies, (e.g. Stormwater.)

Cleanup Australia Points out the problems of mislaid wastes and a way of helping to clean up the mess. Conduct a separate Google search on 'shopping trolleys' for an individual look at new, used, mislaid and abandoned trolleys.

The River Styles Management Framework This website introduces a geomorphic approach for examining river character, behaviour, condition and recovery potential. This provides a physical template for river management. Useful concepts to compare the Brook's behavioural patterns from source to the Bay.

Wet land Information - Qld Dept Environment and Resource Management. A valuable resource for studying wetlands including riverine, estaurine and marine wetland types. Excellent diagrams and also links to Heatlhy Waterway Conceptual diagrams.

Caboolture- Large scale Wetland Information Map (9.5 MB file) Interesting but though it covers most of Brook it is at too small a scale for much use.

Weeds and their effect on habitat

About Weeds Report This gives a general introduction to the subject with emphasis on how weeds affect the Brook.

Dyschoriste and Camphor laurel weeds in Kedron Brook Two different types of invasive weeds along the Brook.

Kedron Brook Catchment Weed Project Report A mammoth detailed study of weed invasion in some vital forest remnants along Kedron Brook.

Teacher Resources

Practical School ground projects - Click here for illustrations of some practical school yard projects which will enhance students appreciation of catchment protection issues.

Professional Development

(Refer to Student Links also)
Dept of Environment and Resource Management– Science & SOSE Modules

NOVA - Science in the News - Australian Academy of Sciences

Sustainability - Australian Academy of Sciences

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