Keeping Wetlands Wonderful [Cairnlea Wander] Cairnlea, Victoria, Australia
By caughtatwork on 01-Jan-20. Waypoint GA14236

Cairnlea Wander - Keeping Wetlands Wonderful

Take an afternoon and wander through some on Cairnlea. At this location you can not only find a nano container, but you can also read about some of the ways that the wetlands are created, maintained and treated.
About Cairnlea
Cairnlea is a suburb of Melbourne 17 km north-west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Brimbank. The former Albion site became open grassland after European settlement but later, from 1939, it was a government explosives manufacturing site. The site closed in the 1990s. The suburb is a new estate, and has only been developed since 1999, with development of the new suburb finishing in mid-2005. The suburb features several man-made lakes and has implemented a suburb-wide stormwater recycling system that feeds all the lakes. Cairnlea covers 460 hectares (4.6 km2) bounded by Station Rd, the Western Highway and the Western Ring Road. Some 130 hectares (320 acres) have been set aside for public open space. Part of that process has seen two endangered species (the Plains Rice-flower and the Striped Legless Lizard) having reserves and management plans set up for their preservation. Kororoit Creek is located on the southern border of the suburb and Jones Creek on the Northern Border. The creeks have been home to healthy populations of native reptiles for thousands of years, including Tiger snake, Eastern Blue-tongued Lizard and Eastern brown snake. Unfortunately, due to development over the past 20 years, these species are now rarely seen in the area. Due to development of lakes and wetlands, species of frogs have reclaimed the area. The Eastern Banjo Frog, Common Eastern Froglet and even the now endangered Growling Grass Frog have been seen and heard in the new wetlands and in Kororoit Creek. Some species of birds are also returning to the creeks and lakes, such as pelicans and cormorants.

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