Workshop and Field trip
Wednesday 29 March 2017
Gatton – Lockyer Valley Cultural Centre
Purpose of the day
- Share and build awareness plus understanding for professionals of the insights from the ARC Linkage research project “The Big Flood: Will it happen again” (www.thebigflood.com.au)
- Consider and discuss the application of the science to a range of floodplain, catchment, resources and land use planning issues
- Provide evidence from a ‘case study’ in a regional setting which contains a mix of rural, natural landscape and local settlement issues and discuss how transferable these lessons may be to other catchments
- Continue the Flood Community of Practice tradition of bringing together a diverse set of professionals so that the inter-relationships across a complex issue can be better appreciated
Workshop Participants Sectors
Local Government
Lockyer Valley Regional Council, Ipswich City Council, Logan City Council,
Brisbane City Council and Council of Mayors of SEQ
Queensland State Government
Natural Resources and Mines and Queensland Reconstruction Authority
Local residents
Friends of Apex Park and Grantham community
Natural Resource Management
Condamine Alliance, Healthy Land and Water, SEQ Water and International RiverFoundation
Universities
QUT, University of Queensland, Griffith University and International Water Centre
Rural Sector
Growcom and Golden Finch Lawns
Consultants
RMA, BMT WBM and Ideanthro
The Big Flood: Will it happen again
Over-view presentation from Dr Jacky Crocke
Focus on the issues of understanding, predicting and managing: comprehensive information on all 3 aspects results at project website
Field trip to Lockyer Valley with Dr Chris Thompson and PhD researchers from UQ James Daley and Daryl Lam – with comprehensive field guide.
A video summary,compliments of Jack Mullay, provides key highlights of Jacqui’s presentation and the field trip.
Practioner Panel
Welcome from Cr Jim McDonald – Lockyer Valley Regional Council
Panel presentations
Belinda Whelband – Lockyer Valley Catchment Action Plan
Rowena Beveridge – Growcom – Best management plan program for horticulture growers in Lockyer Valley
Phil Smith – Ipswich City Council
Dan Garcia – SEQ Water – Source Protection Planning
Event Partners
This outing to Gatton, venue hire and catering and capture of the days proceedings would not have been possible without the generous support of:
- local hosts – Lockyer Valley Regional Council
- bus travel compliments of SEQ Water
- outdoor PA – Healthy Land and Water
- event support from Queensland Reconstruction Authority and Consulate-General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands – Sydney
- video capture – Jack Mullaly – Ideanthro