Evergreen WA

People of Perth and southwest WA, Alcoa are strip mining in our drinking water catchments - Serpentine, North Dandalup and South Dandalup.

They are mining in reservoir protection zones where everyday people aren’t allowed to hike or camp due to water quality risks. They want to build a pipeline to take our drinking water straight out of Serpentine Dam.

Strip mining in drinking water catchments is a disaster - the risks are enormous and the consequences could be catastrophic.

Water Corporation, has warned that contamination of our drinking water is “certain” if Alcoa’s expansion continues. Why was this ignored and their advice excluded from Alcoa’s operating conditions?

These forests supply drinking water to Perth, Kalgoorlie, the Goldfields and towns all across southwest WA. We should all be very worried.

It’s not a matter of IF - it’s a matter of WHEN. And when disaster strikes, it will affect hundreds of thousands of people and cost millions, if not billions of dollars.

We are not anti-mining or anti-Alcoa, but our health and wellbeing are seriously at stake.

Many people don’t know what’s happening. Alcoa have already cleared 28,000 hectares of the world’s only jarrah forest - 14x the City of Perth. Their mining agreement is so old, it’s exempt from most of our environmental laws. Now is a critical time for change.

We’re urgently calling on the state government to do what’s right for Western Australians - ban all mining in our drinking water catchments.

Speak out, share this message, and hold our leaders accountable. The future of Western Australia depends on what we do today 🩵✊🌳

💻 Contact state & federal MPs and local gov councillors - they need to hear your concerns

☎️ Talk to family, friends, colleagues and neighbours - so everyone knows whats happening

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We’re hosting a free community festival 📣📣📣 Think live performances, guest speakers, family activities, giveaways, face painting, community stalls and delicious food trucks 🥳🥳

Learn about local projects to care for country and how to get involved with conservation and citizen science. Loads of our mates will be there plus some very special guests!

Mundaring Garden and Farmers Market will be right next door and Mundaring Hills Open Studios opens that day, so it’s going to be a great day up in the hills!

Shout out to our event supporters: Inspiring Western Australia, Scitech, Department of Jobs Tourism Science and Innovation, Saferight, Community Bank Mundaring, Shire of Mundaring, and our wonderful event and research partner, Edith Cowan University (ECU) 🙏💙

Special thanks also to our amazing event manager, Fleur from Perth Hills Events 🤩🤩

To learn more, visit www.bibbul.org

We had a lot of fun working on this awesome project!

🌊 RIVER SAMPLING RESULTS 🌊

In 2024, we collected surface water and sediment samples from 12 locations across the Mandoon Bilya (Helena River) catchment.

The objective was to increase our understanding of the river’s health and contribute towards a baseline for further investigation and monitoring future changes.

This work is significant as it represents the most locations sampled on the river in a single sampling event in the last 20 years (and possibly ever!).

The sampling was enabled by funding from three local governments (Shire of Mundaring, City of Kalamunda and City of Swan) that was facilitated by the Local Health Authorities Analytical Committee, a statutory WA State Government entity under the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1911.

The project was also supported by Parks and Wildlife Service, who lent us sampling equipment and helped with site access, Senversa, who helped us process the data and review the draft report, and Evergreen WA who helped us with the report writing and creation of the maps.

Thank you to everyone who has supported this important project! It is a brilliant example of what can be achieved when community and government work together towards shared goals.

The link to the sampling report and a summary of key findings are in the comments! 🤓