No Dam!

Return to Brownhill Creek and the campaign for No Dam!

Following on from my blip last Saturday, December 15th, I returned to the Brownhill Creek Conservation Park today to show you what the entrance to the park looks like. I also wanted to share with you the large banner I saw being put up between the gum trees on Saturday. Seen much better in LARGE.
This was the first photo I have taken with Paladian's lovely new 6D camera!

As mentioned, the local Mitcham council wants to destroy this beautiful valley by putting a dam across it to prevent a once in a lifetime flood, lower down-stream in the urban areas! At this moment the creek is a trickle less than one metre wide! This can swell to a flood from all of the run-off in the greater catchment area if exceptional rain storms should take place.

What is proposed is a concrete dam, 12 metres high and 100 metres wide in the heart of the Brownhill Creek Recreation Park! If this area is lost, you will see no more dragonflies like the one Paladian blipped today!

This will destroy one of the world's oldest parks. Our Governor Grey set aside Brownhill Creek for public purposes in 1841, predating the oldest National Parks in the world at Yellowstone USA (1872), Royal National Park in NSW (1879) and Belair National Park South Australia (1891).

Brownhill Creek is now part of Yurrebilla, the Greater Mount Lofty Parkland. The dam and road relocation will destroy the heart of the park, which contains a traditional Aboriginal camping site, a colonial heritage rock-crushing site, an important plant rehabilitation site and threatened native fish species.

Brownhill Creek is one of the last original creek lines in the Adelaide Hills. This beautiful park provides a rural landscape less than 10km from the city centre, and a special place to retreat to for studying nature or for exercise.

Activities in the park include walking, running, cycling, mountain-bike riding, horse riding and artistic pursuits such as photography (blipping) and painting.

For Hobbs and Legodude, see my Birdwood National Motor Museum Blog here, for the photos that did not make my Sunday blip of the day.
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