Vision: “A healthy, happy, viable community into the future”
Area: 22,000 hectares
Launched: January 2002
Issues covered in the plan:
- Community Agency Responsibility
- Soil and Water Issues
- Environment
- Local Community
- Health
- PestPlants and Animals
- Rural Living
Achievements:
- Re-established the Nanneella newsletter – “The Nanneella Channel”
- Rural Information kit developed and distributed
- Clean up days at the Bushland Reserve
- Courses run at Nanneella
- Immunisation program started with the Campaspe Shire
- Development of the NTAG – Nanneella and Timmering Action Group, which comprises of:
- Citizens Advisory Group
- Local Area Plan Implementation Committee
- Nanneella and District Landcare Group
- Assisted in the development of the Nanneella Bushland Reserve Management Plan
- Hosted Fox –off information days
- Women’s Pamper Day
- Evapotranspiration estimation using remote sensing for assessing irrigation efficiency project – Universityof Melbourne- Cress Savage, PhD study.
Priorities for the future:
- Water trading out of the area / Watertable issues
- Welcoming new people to the area
- Documentation of Nanneella’s history – who is going to do it?
- Recognition of Nanneella community and people that are in it
- Broader environmental issues
- Mobile Phone Coverage
- Post drought problems
- Right to farm
- Road Conditions
- School numbers declining
- Health of community
- Water quality in townshipof Nanneella
Contact: Local Area Plan - Implementation Officer DPI Echuca (03) 5482 1922
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