Maylands Lakes

Community members are invited to the second Maylands Lakes Community Forum.

These forums will be held quarterly as part of the City’s commitment to addressing the water quality and midge issues at Maylands Lakes.

The details are as follows:

• Time: 5.30pm (for a 6pm start) until 7.30pm
• Date: Thursday 5 September 2024
• Location: Main Function Hall, Maylands Sport and Recreation Club, 50 Clarkson Road, Maylands
• RSVP: By 5pm, Friday 30 August 2024 to Coordinator Executive Services, Nicole Ceric, via nicole.ceric@bayswater.wa.gov.au or 9272 0622

During the forum, the City will provide an update on actions taken since the previous forum.

We thank you for your patience and understanding as we work to improve the environmental conditions at Maylands Lakes.

New dashboards have been created, offering detailed information on water quality monitoring and midge management.

These dashboards will be updated as the City receives relevant data, providing you with up to date information.

Edith Cowan University students are visiting the lakes on Monday 29 July as part of a site tour of Perth wetlands highlighting the challenges in managing urban waterways.

At its July meeting, Council voted unanimously to award the Maylands Lakes Environmental Restoration Masterplan tender to Alluvium Consulting.

Alluvium Consulting provides catchment, river and coastal analysis and advice, designing strategies and devising practical solutions to issues associated with natural and built environments.

Awarding the tender fulfills one of a range of new actions endorsed by Council for the City to undertake in its efforts to address environmental conditions at Maylands Lakes.

In April, Council endorsed the scope for the Maylands Lakes Environmental Restoration Masterplan, which was broadened to include the option to investigate mechanical pumping and filtration. Other options, including relevant case studies, will also be considered during the Masterplan process.

Development of the Masterplan will span the following 12 to 18 months, with stages including data review, stakeholder and community engagement, preliminary concept development, and detailed design.

In addition to stakeholder and community engagement, members of the Maylands Lakes Scientific Advisory Panel will oversee the development of the Masterplan.

The City has undertaken a larvicide treatment at Lake Bungana for midge. The City is monitoring midge numbers at Maylands Lakes in order to effectively target management actions.

The City of Bayswater is inviting community members to take part in the restoration and enhancement of the vegetated area around Lake Bungana as part of water quality improvement works at Maylands Lakes.

This program of works aims to improve water quality, provide habitat for native animals and improve the visual amenity of Lake Bungana. The area is currently dominated by Paperbark (Melaleuca quinquenervia) and River Sheoak (Casuarina cunninghamiana) tree species.

As part of the Maylands Lakes Restoration Plan, the City is seeking to replace these invasive tree species with native vegetation along the Lake Bungana shore to assist with nutrient stripping and create a more diverse environment to provide habitat for fauna.

A community planting day, seeking to add 2,000 native plants to the area, will take place from 9am to 12pm on Sunday 4 August 2024.

The workshop report, slides and action list from the Community Forum can be found below and in the Documents section to the right-hand side of this page.

• Workshop Report
• Slides
• Action List

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Next week, you may notice City staff onsite taking measurements at the Brickworks stream between Lake Bungana and Brickworks Lake.

This is to determine the shape of the land and to understand how water moves through the lake system.

No works are associated with this site investigation.

At its Ordinary Council Meeting held on 30 April 2024, Council considered a report regarding the management of Maylands Lakes.

In addition to other actions, it was resolved:

• "That Council: Requests the Chief Executive Officer to call for Expressions of Interest for the use of pumps and filtration at the Maylands Lakes and provides a report back to Council on the outcomes.”

Accordingly, the City has called for expressions of interest for pump and filtration solutions for Maylands Lakes.

Outcomes of this will be presented to Council as a report.

Submissions close at 4pm on Tuesday 9 July 2024.

The EOI document can be viewed by clicking here or by visiting the Documents section to the right-hand side of this page.

On Saturday 15 June, the City held its first Maylands Lakes Community Forum at the Maylands Sport and Recreation Club. Thank you to the 56 residents who attended.

The City is committed to finding a solution to the poor water quality and midge issues being experienced at Maylands Lakes.

The report and slides from the Community Forum will be published on this page within the next two weeks.

To stay up to date, residents are encouraged to subscribe to this project by clicking the Subscribe button at the top-right of the page.