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1 Estuary Care Foundation SA: community led restoration & climate adaptation Presentation to SA Coastal Conference 9 th November 2017 Catherine McMahon, Estuary Care Foundation

2 Port River and Barker Inlet Estuary

3 Local environment action

4 Why form Foundation Concern Frustration Examples elsewhere Claiming our vision Vehicle for sourcing funds

5 What the future holds AdaptWest, regional climate adaptation plan

6 What the future holds

7 Living Shoreline Port River Drawings: Peri Coleman 2015

8 Nature-based solutions Potentially lessen the impact of sea level rise Use instead of or in conjunction with hard structures More viable now pollution into the Port River has lessened

9 USA estuary restoration July 2016

10 Billion Oyster Project Goal: 1 billion oysters & 100 acres oyster reefs by 2035 October 2017: Source:

11 Harbour School production hub Image -

12 Key priorities of the Foundation Trials of Living Shorelines Shellfish Reef Restoration Seagrass Restoration Community education and engagement

13 Living Shorelines Eco-engineering Environmentally friendly sea walls (NSW) Coastal Resilience (USA)

14 Living Shorelines shoreline protection options offer erosion control benefits natural coastal processes remain strategically place plants, stone, sand fill and other materials

15 USA experience

16 How cost effective is natural infrastructure? The Nature Conservancy 16

17 Examples of Living Shorelines This living shoreline replaced a failing bulkhead at a state boat ramp on the Chowan River, North Carolina (Source: Coastal Review Online)

18 Examples of Living Shorelines Avon River Environment Association (Canada) building a Living Shoreline 2010

19 Example of Living Shoreline, NSW Carss bush park seawall with rockpools, extended slope, crevices, endangered saltmarsh, Kogarah Council 2016

20 Living Shoreline: bagged recycled shell OceanWatch Australia is helping NSW coastal communities turn old oyster shell into living shorelines in an Australian first

21 Shellfish in Kaurna life

22 Now: mussels in Inner Harbour Mussels on New Port Quays marina, November 2015

23 Now: shellfish on Flinders Ports beacon Beacon taken out near Birkenhead, photo 31st October, 2016

24 Now: pinna reef pinna reef at Outer Harbour, January 2017

25 Port River Shellfish Restoration Project Formed in January 2016 Advisers Learn Goals and plans Volunteer manual Community NRM grant

26 Initial research questions Can Ostrea angasi (approx 60mm) survive at our trial sites? What spat can be recruited during the spawning seasons of mussels and Ostrea angasi? Can Ostrea angasi spat on shell survive at our trial sites?

27 Grow sites

28 Outcomes

29 Seagrass Restoration Monitoring program along Torrens Island Seagrass restoration trial, north of Snowden s Lessening of existing impacts on seagrass

30 Seagrass in Port River Zostera in Port River; photo by Kym Murphy

31 Zostera near Quarantine Station, Torrens Island, Feb 2017; photo by Peter Carter

32

33 Community Education

34 Community Education

35 Community Education World Environment Forum, June 2017

36 Community Education Science Alive, August 2017

37 Implications: Policy Climate Adaptation Living Shorelines Stormwater management Urban infill Coordination across agencies

38 Community Development Resilient community Estuary: multiple stewards Finding common cause with others Hope

39 Community Development Collaboration: researchers, universities and schools Support: local environmental and other groups Support: government and businesses

40 Future: Inner Harbour

41 Future: Inner Harbour Short term: Bagged shell trials Swim Longer term: Shoreline protection Reefs and snorkel

42 Future in Estuary Plan for long term changes Shoreline protection Wetlands to address stormwater Carbon sequestration Habitat protection & retreat

43 Estuary Care Foundation Inc Catherine McMahon

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