18/12/2008 | TUGGERAH Lakes has apparently claimed more feathered victims as four pelicans were struck down this week in the latest outbreak of suspected avian botulism.
Australian Seabird Rescue co-ordinator J...
11/12/2008 | GOSFORD Council is making the city a greener place to live.
It has supplied 25,000 plants to local companies and organisations in the past year, half of them grown at the council's nursery at Erina...
11/12/2008 | IT'S official. Tuggerah Lakes are safe to swim in and you can eat fish caught in the lakes without any threat to your health.
That is the message from Wyong Shire Council's manager of Estuary Manag...
11/12/2008 | THE Federal Government's Tanks for the Coast project advanced another stage on Tuesday with the provision of three rainwater tanks at Mount Penang Parklands.
Member for Robertson Belinda Neal said ...
11/12/2008 | CHILDREN at Mannering Park Primary School are helping Wyong Council to educate the community on environmental sustainability.
Suitably named Sustainability Street, the project promotes awareness of...
4/12/2008 | WYONG Shire Council's decision to ease water restrictions, but not until March 1 next year, highlights the need for a single corporate water authority to be formed on the Central Coast, Gosford City m...
27/11/2008 | GREENS councillor for Wyong Shire Sue Wynn said the easing of water restrictions proposed by Gosford-Wyong Councils' Water Authority is premature, and any decision should be delayed until after summer...
27/11/2008 | LONG Jetty's Alf Payne doesn't have a fancy environmental degree but he has a professional fisherman's knowledge of Tuggerah Lakes gained when they were a major tourist drawcard.
Arguably, from a l...
27/11/2008 | ALF favours a sandbagged breakwall projecting at least 50 metres into the sea on the northern side of The Entrance channel.
This would divert sand now coming from North Entrance Beach into the chan...
27/11/2008 | UNDER the proposed Level 2B water restrictions gardeners would be permitted to use a hand-held hose and drip system for one hour a day on two days of the week between 7am and 9am and 5pm and 7pm.
O...
27/11/2008 | THE intended route for the Mardi-Mangrove pipeline has been chosen but Cr Doug Eaton still believes it should have followed Yarramalong Road, even if that meant a $20-million upgrade of the road.
G...
13/11/2008 | WYONG Shire Council needs to considerably broaden its scientific testing of Tuggerah Lakes waters to gain an overall guide as to the health of the lakes.
This is the opinion of industrial chemist P...
13/11/2008 | WYONG Shire Council acting manager Estuary Management Damien Rose said the council had a long-term commitment to improving the quality of the shire's waterways.
As part of its summer beachwatch pro...
16/10/2008 | NEW Wyong Shire Councillor Lynne Webster has called for the new council to trial a sandbag breakwall at the mouth of The Entrance channel.
16/10/2008 | IT'S now two weeks since the deaths of five pelicans and an albatross sparked concerns about disease in Tuggerah Lake, yet authorities have deemed that no investigation is necessary.
Neither the Na...
16/10/2008 | A COMMUNITY gathering at North Entrance Surf Club on Sunday seems certain to be the first of many local meetings to deal with the community's growing concerns about coastal erosion.
16/10/2008 | [PI9017] A report by CSIRO marine laboratories scientist Andrew D Kennedy said that concern about the Tuggerah Lakes environment was first noted in 1970 when accumulations of black mud appeared on pre...
16/10/2008 | suspects that the birds died from a strain of avian botulism which poses no health threat to humans.
Botulism is a form of bacteria which often occurs after heavy rains or during warm weather. It's...
16/10/2008 | A REPORT recommending Gosford City Council contribute $250,000 to the Department of Lands for the immediate dredging of Ettalong Channel was presented to council on Tuesday.
The staff-issued report...
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