More than $500,000 has been provided to the City of Albany to rehabilitate Yakamia Creek in the Centennial Park precinct.
The rehabilitation of the current drain into a living stream is part of a wider plan to improve the quality of water flowing into Oyster Harbour through the State funded $20 million Regional Estuaries Initiative.
Under the $520,000 agreement signed with the City of Albany today, about 210 metres of Yakamia Creek will be transformed from an existing detention basin to a 1.1 hectare nutrient stripping basin vegetated with native sedges, low shrubs and tall trees.
South Coast NRM has also been given $50,000 to work with the community and landowners in the lower Yakamia Creek catchment to implement a Fish Friendly Farms project. The project will engage and educate landholders in riparian protection work to improve water quality and habitat for native fish.
These two new agreements add to the $605,000 given to the Oyster Harbour Catchment Group in 2016.