RFS calls in big guns for flood clean-up
The NSW Rural Fire Service (RFS) has called in the big guns to help with the flood clean up with seven tracked loaders deployed in the Central Coast, Hawkesbury-Nepean Valley…
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Four tonnes of debris collected at Patonga
The team at Clean4Shore has continued to help clean up the Peninsula following weeks of wet weather, collecting nearly four tonnes of debris off the coast off Patonga. The local…
Oyster farmers clean up Brisbane Water foreshore
Local oyster farmers will descend onto the foreshore of the Brisbane Water next Tuesday to help tackle waste for the mass industry-led clean-up event ‘Tide to Tip’. The group will…
Beach Clean Up at Ettalong
Locals are being encouraged to help an ‘end of school holiday beach clean’ at Ettalong on Thursday, January 27. The event is being organised by local eco-friendly business #untrashy and…
Clean up event at Avoca
Plastic Free Avoca Beach will hold a community clean-up in Hunter Park on Saturday, December 18. Registration will be open from 8:30am, with the clean-up to take place from 9-10am…
Locals turn out for Avoca Beach clean-up
More than 50 people turned up to do their bit at the Avoca Beach Community Clean Up held on Sunday, June 6, in honour of World Ocean Day. Fifty-two people,…
Lion Island clean-up clears the waters for Little Penguins
A clean up project at Lion Island last month has resulted in a record amount of debris collected, and local wildlife to bounce back, following severe flooding in March. The…
Volunteers call for help with cleanup
A small group of volunteers is calling for support from officials after spending hours picking up washed-up debris from Maitland Bay beach over the Easter long weekend. After the recent…
Clean-up nets over 2,000 tonnes of wrack and debris
More than 220 tonnes of wrack and flood debris has been collected so far by Council workers from about four kilometres of foreshores since the storm floods in early March….
1,000 tonnes of wrack and debris collected
Copacabana, Killcare and Umina beaches remain closed (as at Thursday) as Central Coast Council continues the mammoth clean-up following the severe storms of March 18-23. So far clean-up efforts have…
Community clean-up – Ward’s Hill to Wagstaffe
Wagstaffe to Killcare Community Association members rolled up their sleeves and got their hands dirty for Clean-up Australia Day, collecting two tonnes of rubbish on March 6. Coordinator Mike Chitty…
Clean-up continues
Fridges, pontoons, furniture, pumpkins and even a cow are some of the strange things to have washed up on Central Coast beaches following huge storms which savaged the region from…
Flooding clean-up is well underway
Over the past week, communities around the foreshore of Tuggerah Lakes and in the valleys, banded together to start the massive mopping up after the flooding caused by more than…
Cleaning up for tourist season
Central Coast Council is poised to re-set the region as a major tourist destination, following a successful motion from Councillor Bruce McLachlan at its September 14 meeting. Cleaning up gateways…
Springfield Pond cleaning underway
Springfield residents were pleased to see heavy machinery roll in to the suburb early this month, as work on the next state of the cleaning of Springfield Pond began. A…
Report says derelict oyster farms are major pollutant
A report from local clean-up organisation Clean4Shore has identified debris from derelict oyster farms as a major pollutant in Brisbane Water. Removal of the debris represents much of the voluntary…
Students remove oyster lease debris from Pelican Island
Bushcraft students from Brisbane Water Secondary College Woy Woy joined with Clean4Shore to remove debris from Pelican Island on June 8. They paid particular attention to cone oyster baskets left…