Melville City Trial - First for WA Lakes.

Back in January we conducted a trial with Melville cities reserve team to clear Marmion and Frederick Baldwin lakes of noxious aquatic weed.

The last time Marmion lake alone was cleared in 2015 it took 1 week to remove turtles and 2.5 weeks to clear the invasive weed and fish species using 10 staff and volunteers, equating to over 6400 man hours with the native turtles being temporarily re-homed at a further cost to the city.

Melville City engaged us to cut and remove aquatic weeds from both lakes which took six days . In the councils own words about our Truxor DM 5045

'With its ability to move easily from land to water using a track system creating low ground pressure, there was no damage to the environment. The turtle were not required to be removed and the whole exercise took just over a week to clear both lakes, with all the invasive weed species being removed. A single operator was required, which kept man hours to a minimum. Areas of the lakes that had been extremely hard to access and the potential to damage the environment was mitigated.'