Please join us on Sunday morning May 25th from 9am -12pm when, in collaboration with City of Adelaide, you and other Green Pakapakanthi volunteers will plant 300 native rushes, sedges and grasses on the banks of Botanic Creek in Rymill Park, helping to stabilize the banks, prevent local flooding and improve the quality of water entering the Torrens River. If you would like to participate get a free ticket here at Humanitix. Family and friends, including children, are welcome. Note, however, that each volunteer needs to be registered separately for insurance purposes.

Botanic Creek begins its short course on the east side of Victoria Park where it receives stormwater from the eastern suburbs during the rainy season (some via the Victoria Park/ Pakapakanthi wetland) and flows though the eastern Park lands, under roads, through the Botanic Garden ponds before entering the River Torrens. In Rymill Park, silt and rubble has built up over many years causing flooding just upstream of where the Creek is diverted under Rundle Road. Engineering works have been completed recently (silt and debris removed and topsoil added) in preparation for revegetation by volunteers on the 25th.

The event will start at 9 am with an introduction and briefing by an expert from Water Sensitive SA, who will discuss challenges and impacts in the wider catchment and talk through the design details of this specific project. This will be followed by Q&A and a brief planting demonstration. Planting will commence around 9.30am and is expected to finish at 12pm - or earlier - depending on the number of volunteers.

Please bring your own trowel and gardening gloves if you have them (City of Adelaide will have a supply on the day, if you don’t), wear sturdy shoes and dress for the weather. Planting will proceed if there is light rain. (You will be contacted on Friday 23rd In the unlikely event that heavy rain or lightning is forecast, and the event needs to be postponed.)