The Kedron Brook Catchment Network (KBCN) is an informal network of individuals and organisations working together to maintain and improve Kedron Brook catchment’s environment. Our network functions as a facilitating and organisational group for our members. Our membership includes a variety of individuals, organisations and hands-on working groups.
We welcome new members to our Network.
Our major partner: The Wildlife Preservation SocietyWhat do we do
Some information about Kedron Brook
Kedron Brook historical background
Our network and BCC Habitat Brisbane
Our major partner:
The Kedron Brook
Catchment Branch
of The Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland (WPSQ).
The Kedron Brook Catchment Branch of WPSQ was formed to facilitate the network’s administrative requirements.
You can take part in network activities without becoming a branch member. However, there are many advantages:
- you will be joining a large, well-respected and influential environmental organisation
- you will receive the monthly WPSQ newsletter
- you can subscribe to WPSQ’s WILDLIFE AUSTRALIA a glossy informative quarterly magazine
- as a branch member, you will receive any distributed postal mail-outs or emails
- you will have formal voting rights and be able to hold official positions in the branch.
See our special Kedron Brook Catchment Branch Brochure (327 KB pdf file) for a summary of our aims and activities.
What do we do?
Our network encourages the involvement of the community and governments at all levels. We seek to encourage coordination and communication between those who use or make decisions about the catchment of Kedron Brook.
We do this by keeping people informed about catchment issues, encouraging participation in Bushcare and other environment groups, and provide opportunities to plan and learn about the catchment.
Some information about Kedron Brook
The Kedron Brook has its source in Brisbane Forest Park, near Camp Mountain, within the Moreton Bay Regional Council area (previously the Pine Rivers Shire). Its main tributary, Cedar Creek, rises from a similar origin slightly to the south east, and joins Kedron Brook at Ferny Grove. Part of the Brook down from the nearby Maureen Lawrence Park serves as the boundary between the two local government areas. From Boundary Park, near Mitchelton, the Brook then flows wholly within the area of Brisbane City.
As Kedron Brook passes Kalinga Park, Clayfield, it becomes a highly structured waterway; the Schultz Canal. Finally, at the Gateway Motorway Deviation bridge, the canal becomes the Kedron Brook Floodway; essentially a wide, walled waterway flowing to its outfall into Moreton Bay, near Nudgee Beach.
The catchment is about 29 km long and about 4 km wide - a total area of 110km2.
It is mostly urbanised but significant areas of native vegetation remain, particularly in the upper catchment and beyond. The lower third of the Brook has been engineered to accommodate the massive requirements of the original Brisbane Airport, the Gateway Motorway Deviation, the Airport Link Project , the Northern Busways Project, and soon, the Brisbane Airport - Second Runway Project.
Kedron Brook (really a creek or stream) flows into Moreton Bay, a significant wetland and home to dugong and turtles. Hence, water quality is of importance to people in the catchment and to those who use Moreton Bay.
Kedron Brook historical background
The brook has a long Aboriginal history prior to colonization. Free settlement saw timber milling and farming along the brook. Increased urbanization since the 1940s has further depleted the brook’s riparian and native vegetation. Flood mitigation re-engineering, falls in water quality, and reduced recreation access are also major changes that have occurred. For more information see Brook History.
Residential and industrial uses now predominant and only a few remnants of natural vegetation remain. See Our Urban Catchment for a detailed report.
Our Network and the Brisbane City Council (BCC)
Volunteer Bushcare groups have worked since the early 1990s to restore local native vegetation and improve wildlife habitat.
Brisbane City Council (BCC) supports the bushcare groups' activities through the Habitat Brisbane Program.
Moreton Bay Regional Council supports bushcare groups in the upper catchment.
These groups are members of the Kedron Brook Catchment Network. There are currently 15 active bushcare groups tending over 30 rehabilitation sites along the Brook from Ferny Grove to Northgate.
The BCC has also been directly involved in this site’s development. The ourbrisbane.com Online Business and Community Development Program originally provided funding, hosting and development. Although this website is now hosted elsewhere, the BCC supports it less directly through general and project funding.
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