Peel River trees could be flood risk
The debris is mainly Willow tree its a destructive species if u take a branch of this tree and push it into the ground that branch will start too grow. The Willow trees should be removed from our riverbanks all the way up through to the head of the peel river and replaced with Australian river species. This would clean up the river water as well and help native fish species.
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- Rodney Muller
The Peel River bank areas could be made something beautiful. Landscaped picnic area, few levies that keep a nice store of water so people take a canoe down the river. It could be made a really great area.
- Jennie Andrews
Hi Jen trying our best to improve the river, most of our work & other volunteer groups work is vandalised.
- Bid Scott
Bid Scott the Peel river has looked disgusting all it's life. Funny how small towns can do so much more than TRC does eg take a pride of their river and enhance it, also heated swimming aquatic pool TRC not interested
- Jennie Andrews
If you want to stop the debris building up then the water needs to be able to spill out over the flood plains like it naturally did before all these levy banks were put it... think about it, if the water floods the plains when the river fills then that takes the pressure off the river itself, but if you concentrate all the water to the river then as well as erode the creek out it's going to concentrate all the debris there as well... if you remove the trees all its going to do is make the erosion worse (which it's already horrendous in places) and make it even more unsightly and inaccessible for people... you NEED the trees there otherwise you're just going to have more problems.
- Andrew Martin
Removing native trees in riparian zones will only result in faster flows with resulting erosion and scouring of the waterway which destroys biodiversity. Having native trees along our waterway stabilizes banks and reduces the sediment load. We need to be planting more native trees to increase habitat diversity and for a healthy river system.
- Christine Taylor
