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.

The community group Save Ralphs Bay Inc. believes the announcement by Sydney-based canal estate proponent, Walker Corporation, that it would this week begin drilling works in Ralphs Bay, demonstrates the developer’s continuing and apparently willful lack of understanding of the area’s fragile environment and the River Derwent’s slow recovery.

Save Ralphs Bay Inc. welcomes Premier David Bartlett’s assurance this morning that the assessment of the proposed Walker Corporation canal estate in Ralphs Bay rests with the Resource Planning and Development Commission, and the RPDC’s decision on the matter will be respected by the State Government.

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..

Driving to work through Lauderdale last Thursday, after navigating around debris deposited by the previous night’s hurricane force winds on to the Ralphs Bay foreshore, I was struck once again by the madness of the canal estate plan we continue to fight.

Concerned Tasmanians have until April 16th to write to the Department of Primary Industries and Water (DPIW), in relation to proposed Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in the Bruny Bioregion. But why the DPIW?

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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