Tracey Muir works for the Cape to Cape Catchment Group. (We are working out what ‘catchments’ are.)
When Tracey Muir visited our class she talked about the things that make a river ‘catchment’ healthy or unhealthy. She showed us just how many things can end up in the river – making it sick or unhealthy for all the fish and creatures who live in it.
We saw just how important it is to do things like
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wash the car on grass so the detergent is absorbed into the ground, not into the stormwater drain
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put rubbish into the bin so it doesn’t wash down the drains and into the river
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use less fertiliser on the garden (chemicals) so it doesn’t get into the river water
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appreciate and enjoy the beautiful river we have in Margaret River so that we can keep it that way!
