SRB News

Walker Corporation’s consultants have arrived on Ralphs Bay, with a barge mounted hammer corer taking sediment samples over the next three to four weeks. An ‘all terrain supercorer’ vehicle will also be put to use, accessing the fragile sandflats across foreshore vegetation from South Arm Road.

If you want to help save Ralphs Bay from Walker Corporation, if you believe there is no place for canal estates in Tasmania, consider joining the Ralphies on Friday morning to line the Bay during Walker’s drilling program.

We meet at the Lauderdale Hall at 7.30 a.m. (27th June 08) to display our Save Ralphs Bay message to local commuters, and Walker’s consultants.

Consultants for Walker Corporation are expected to begin their contamination assessment of the Ralphs Bay sediments on Friday 20 June.  The proponent of Tasmania’s first canal housing estate is required to undertake this work under the RPDC Final Scope Guidelines as it prepares its Draft Integrated Impact Statement for assessment.

Save Ralphs Bay Inc was shocked to see that 69% of the Marine Protected Areas put forward in the Draft Recommendations Report of the Inquiry into the establishment of Marine Protected Areas in the Bruny Bioregion have been slashed..

The deadline for comments on the proposed Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in the Bruny Bioregion is Wednesday 16th April.

You can send your comments and submissions to the Secretary, Department of Primary Industries and Water, GPO Box 44, Hobart, TAS 7001,

email: Fishing.Enquiries@dpiw.tas.gov.au

fax Recreational Fisheries Enquiries, Wild Fisheries Management Branch Fax: 03 6223 1539

Save Ralphs Bay Inc has produced cards featuring iconic images of our precious bay and its wildlife, and tea towels.  Sales of the cards and tea towels will help with our continuing fundraising efforts for Save Ralphs Bay Inc.

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A key environmental hotspot in Franklin for almost four years, the Ralphs Bay Conservation Area is in the hands of the Resource Planning and Development Commission AND, ultimately, the Federal Government. Whoever is elected to represent Franklin on Saturday will enter Parliament with the community’s expectation that he or she will be a strong voice in Canberra for Ralphs Bay

The community group formed in March 2004, Save Ralphs Bay Inc (SRB), congratulates the RPDC for its rigorous and comprehensive guidelines for the assessment of the Walker Corporation’s proposed canal estate development and calls on to the Walker Corporation to make a public commitment to the PoSS process and the Premier, Paul Lennon, to allow the RPDC to conduct a comprehensive, rigorous assessment of the proposed development without interference.