By Judith Kerr at the Bayside Bulletin
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Redland City Council, Cleveland-based environmental group SEQCatchments and North Stradbroke Island’s Darren Burns were all honoured for their work improving local waterways at this year’s Healthy Waterways Awards on Friday night.
Redland City Council won an award for its push to improve water quality from a consistent “F” rating to a “D+” over the past four years.
SEQCatchments’s eco-friendly moorings won the Product and Manufacturing Award, in which council’s “floating wetlands” project was a finalist.
Redland city’s third winner was Quandamooka representative Darren Burns who won the Waterways Mentor Award for his work with indigenous youth and environmental rehabilitation projects across Moreton Bay.
State water retailer Unity Water presented the award for the waterways recovery program.
Council’s portfolio spokesperson for the environment, waterways and foreshores Cr Paul Gleeson and mayor Karen Williams said the awards recognised the council’s hard work to improve local waterways.
SeqCatchments made a video about its eco-friendly moorings, which shows how traditional block-and-chain moorings can dig up seabeds and how the new moorings help save seagrass.
The group replaced more than 100 moorings in and around Redland City over the past year.
SEQ Catchments Joel Bolzenius said the new moorings were expected to result in an extra 18 football fields of seagrass in Moreton Bay with a further 120ha of “improved” marine habitat.
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