Whyalla City Council has completed a revegetation program to enhance and protect the Whyalla Foreshore.
The program of dune seeding and tubestock planting has been carried out by Council staff and contractors during May and June.
Whyalla City Council Acting CEO, Mr Kristen Clark said the program was designed to provide valuable food and habitat for local native animals, including the birds, lizards, insects and aquatic species (including the fish).
‘More than 800 tubestock plants have been planted into the newly established frontal dune system, covering the sandbags that was recently created during the February 2020 sand replenishment project,” said Mr Clark.
Council partnered with the Department for Environment and Water - Eyre Peninsula (DEW), to direct seed 1.2 kilometres of the Whyalla Foreshore’s frontal dune system.
The seed project extended from the Caravan Park to the Marina breakwater, utilising seed sourced from healthy stands of coastal vegetation located in the Whyalla region.
“By ensuring coastal vegetation biodiversity we can protect and stabilise the shoreline coastal dunes,” said Mr Clark.
Mr Clark said Council was committed to ensuring the Foreshore remains a healthy beach ecosystem so that residents could enjoy it.
Pictured (top) are contractors broadcasting seed on the frontal dune and (bottom) planting tubestock along the Foreshore