You can help protect our waterways by:
• Making sure that your motor vehicle does not
leak oil or other chemicals such as brake
fluids or coolants
• Wash paintbrushes or other equipment that
have had chemical contact onto your lawn not
into the stormwater drains that receive no
treatment prior to entering waterways
• Washing your vehicle on the lawn not a
sealed driveway
• Picking up stray rubbish and binning it
• Composting grass clippings and garden and
kitchen wastes at home for future use on your
garden
• Choosing natural fertilisers for your garden
(eg. from your compost bin or worm farm) and
watering nutrients well into soil. If you use
pesticides don’t apply if rain is threatening
• Taking a plastic bag when you are walking
your dog to pick up its droppings. You can
dispose of the bag in your wheelie bin. This will
help to reduce the level of bacteria and
nutrients entering the waterways
• Designing your garden to direct rainfall runoff
onto garden beds and lawn. This will improve
stormwater runoff quantity and quality and
reduce erosive stormwater velocity that carries
nutrients pollutants and sediments into our
waterways.
• Minimising the area of bare ground in your
yard by planting groundcovers such as lawn
shrubs and trees to prevent sediment being
washed into drains and waterways.
