Delta Environmental Consulting in St Kilda | Environmental consultant

Delta Environmental Consulting

Locality: St Kilda

Phone: +61 8 8280 5910

Address: 12 Beach Road 5110 St Kilda, SA, Australia

Website: http://www.deltaenvironmental.com.au/

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25.01.2022 Infuriated optimism. I like it. Fits nicely with cultivated naivety in the tool kit of an environmental scientist.

24.01.2022 Back in 2013 I did some risk assessment on the closure of the Dry Creek Saltfields. Some of the modelling in this report could help get the "Holding Pattern" back on track, even without using the Bolivar outfall to dilute brines - there are alternative ways to run the ponds. Not cheap to set up, or cheap to operate, but doable. https://birdlife.org.au//SC-Risks-Opportunities-Briefing-P

24.01.2022 Kindness. Walked miles through rough back blocks of various wetlands today, finishing at the Greenfields. Plonked down on the cafe verandah to pick prickles out of my socks, explained I wasn’t buying, just using their oh, so comfy chairs. The lovely Covid Marshall thought a bottle of water would be welcome. Love the Watershed so much.

22.01.2022 GeoScience Australia makes near-realtime satellite imagery available for the public. In the photos below you can see the impact of filling the old gypsum ponds with hypersaline brine. The orange coloured areas in the second image are dead mangroves and saltmarshes.

20.01.2022 Just a single page sample of the hundreds of pages that I have read today of historic Coorong environmental observations, faithfully recorded within the pages o...f the SA Ornithologist. The value of this work, completed by highly-skilled, often amateur ornithologists often goes under-recognised. Huge shout-out to the incredible folk at Birds SA, for their meticulous taking and keeping of these records, for more than 106 years. All the best, Faith C.

17.01.2022 If you wonder what the "very complex" Dry Creek Saltfield is allowed to do, you could trawl through the 1200 or more pages of their PEPR, or you could consider that it is simply a matter of the combination of salty water, area and evaporation. Links to the Department of Energy and Mining's understandings of the Dry Creek Saltfield below: https://www.energymining.sa.gov.au//m/dry_creek_salt_field

17.01.2022 They were not content to kill 10 hectares of mangroves and 35 hectares of samphires. They were too impatient to wait while SA government agencies decided whether to prosecute under the Native Vegetation Act or the Environmental Protection Act for the discharge of hyper saline brines. They couldn’t be bothered implementing remediation and preventative actions. No, this week, the miners at the Dry Creek Saltfield chose to bore ahead full speed, flooding more salt ponds - PA10, ...11 & 12 north of Dry Creek and the final areas south of the creek. No interception drains were built to protect the mangroves and saltmarshes of the Barker Inlet. No extra actions taken to protect the estuary of the Little Para (the major path to the sea for diadromous galaxias and Congolli of the hills). The miners are pumping their brine across Dry Creek in a pipe buried in a huge bund of rock that partially blocks the creek and is likely to prove a flood hazard to the residents of Globe Derby. #AIBS #WinaityinaityiPangkara MangroveWatch #SAEPA See more

16.01.2022 Friend Lisa Wriley on wonderful crumpet wrappers - fully compostable - they've been doing this forever and we only just realised!

15.01.2022 Lunch box and mate bag back into the kitchen... Centipede was still in the driveway when the message came that today’s Waders and Waterbugs event at the Onkaparinga River was cancelled - high wind warnings, sheep weather alerts, you name it. I returned to the sanctuary of the kitchen, somewhat deflated, to read the new Management Plan for Winaityinaityi Pangkara (home of all the birds) National Park.

13.01.2022 David Bevan was on the job again this morning, interviewing the Acting Director of Mining Regulation about the death of the St Kilda mangroves. The interview starts at 30mins in, on the link below. https://www.abc.net.au//programs/mornings/mornings/12883506

11.01.2022 A handy resource

09.01.2022 Here in Australia, it is the summer shed bark from the gum trees, but the story is the same

08.01.2022 And that is just for ONE of our beautiful old trees that are being cut down left right and centre.

07.01.2022 The Climate Stripe Scarf, with everyone’s birth years pinned on. This is a living breathing example of shifting baselines. My grandchildren only know a warmer world than I was born into. My world was just slightly warmer than my parents, but my children were born at a time when the warming effects were starting to speed up. And my grandchildren...

06.01.2022 Not a clever move. https://theconversation.com/devastating-the-morrison-govern

06.01.2022 Remember this? We put it up years ago when the Dry Creek Saltfields first closed. Some of the resources will still be of use for those who are interested in AMELIORATION of the current impacts occurring on and off the site. Click the link. https://sites.google.com/site/fixingupthesaltfields/home

04.01.2022 Moon Cake festival evening, and the shorebird lanterns are lit to welcome home the moon birds from their annual trek. Sunny dog and Peacebus Captain Graeme Dunstan joined to watch the sun set, on their own pilgrimage from Central Australia to the east coast.

04.01.2022 Waders and waterbugs - down at the Onkaparinga today, in the water with a heap of enthusiastic folk