For ongoing updates, the Ballina Shire Emergency Dashboard provides the latest information, including recovery assistance, road closures, power outages, and more. For real-time updates, visit:
All Council facilities have returned to normal operating hours. Ballina Resource Recovery Centre is OPEN daily (8am to 4pm) - expect delays as high demand will mean longer wait times.
The Vision for Council's Healthy Waterways Program is to "work with the community as a whole to physically change catchment condition across both public and private land tenures for the improvement of flora and fauna habitat, bed and bank stability and water quality".
Read the program and project updates below.
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A new Richmond River Coastal Management Program is underway
Updates on the North Creek Coastal Management Program, a coastal tributary of the Richmond River.
Shaws Bay ecosystem and facilities improvements through the Coastal Zone Management Plan
Lake Ainsworth Coastal Management Program and Healthy Waterways actions
Bank revegetation and stabilisation, riparian rehabilitation works and vegetation projects
A healthy Waterways restoration project
Northlakes estate stormwater drains into the adjoining wetlands and North Creek
Ballina Shire Council and Rous County have undertaken a Drainage Options Study on the Keith Hall drainage system
This section provides information regarding Teven Reserve
Council is counting the rehabilitation and restoration of Alstonville Creek and Tanamera Reserve