Snipes Creek

  • Giving new life to the creek

    Giving new life to the creek

    Recent community planting days were a major milestone in locals’ plans to restore Snipes Creek at Greenhill so it once again sends clean water into the Campaspe River, into which it flows, and supports thriving natural ecosystems. Students, teachers and parents from Kyneton Primary School’s Sustainability Group kicked off two days of planting the floodplain…

  • Coliban Water convicted over Campaspe River pollution

    Coliban Water has been convicted and fined for discharging treated wastewater from the Kyneton Water Reclamation Plant to Snipes Creek at Edgecombe in 2019 in breach of its EPA licence. Environment Protection Authority Victoria successfully argued in Kyneton Magistrates Court last Tuesday that Coliban Water must make a significant contribution to rehabilitating the damage it…