Booiyup – Centennial Park Wetland
Yakamia Creek is an urban drain running through residential and light industrial areas of Albany. The creek delivers high concentrations of nutrients to Oyster Harbour which threaten its health.
The City of Albany and the Regional Estuaries Initiative has transformed 1.1 hectares of Yakamia Creek in Centennial Park into a biofiltration wetland. Water is diverted from the creek and filtered through two basins, where native sedges and vegetation settle out sediments and remove nutrients before the water re-enters the creek.
Find out about the impact of the wetland on water quality
Latest news:
Yakamia Creek restoration ramps up – 23 May 2018
New wetlands a win for Albany’s Oyster Harbour – 28 May 2019
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Other projects
- Better collaborative drainage management
- Brockman Park
- Capacity building
- Catchment modelling
- Catchment monitoring and condition
- Dairy for Healthy Estuaries
- DairyCare
- Estuary modelling
- Estuary monitoring and condition
- Fencing and revegetation
- Fertiliser management program
- Investment planning for catchment actions
- Phosphorus binding clay
- River health assessments
- Seagrass monitoring
- Soil amendments
- Soil Wise
- uPtake
- Urban garden fertiliser use in Leschenault Catchment
- Yakamia Creek Rehabilitation
- Z-Filter trial