SUPPORT DRY CREEK SALTFIELDS RESTORATION
The issue
Good News!
Viable options now exist to resolve the future of the Dry Creek saltfields.
Sadly, the saltfields current operations, and collapsing infrastructure, pose an ongoing risk to neighbours, the St Kilda mangroves, and the saltmarshes.
Options for the future have been developed by Adelaide University researchers and outlined in Shifting Salts: Reimagining The Dry Creek Salt Fields, Transforming former salt evaporation ponds into opportunities for the future of northern Adelaide.
Possible scenarios include the status quo, resumption of salt mining, tidal restoration, stormwater detention, recycled wastewater treatment, mixed use development.
Save St Kilda Mangroves Alliance members will be lobbying for large scale tidal restoration, especially of the Crown Land areas, which will secure the future of the Adelaide international Bird Sanctuary, lessen the risks of the impact of sea level rise and storm surges, provide areas for mangrove and saltmarsh to establish, sequester carbon stocks, provide areas to treat stormwater from the proposed new housing developments of the northern suburbs, and connect the landlocked creeklines back to the sea. Tidally connected creeks are vital hatcheries and juvenile nurseries for the fishing industry and for recreational fishermen and also allow fish that breed at sea and return to land, like congolli and galaxias, to breed.
We petition the SA Government to
· undertake in-depth consideration of Shifting Salts and work collaboratively with all stakeholders to develop and implement a long-term plan for the saltfields
· act quickly to prevent another disaster, since publicly available data indicates that the current operations of the saltfields could readily lead to a breach in a bund, or another release of hypersaline brine.
*** Please note that any donations given on the change.org site for this petition do not go to help those volunteering their time for this action, it goes to pay for more promotions on the change.org site! ***
Stay up to date at savestkildamangroves.com
You have my heartfelt thanks for joining us,
Peri Coleman, for the Save St Kilda Mangroves Alliance
Resident of South Australia
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The issue
Good News!
Viable options now exist to resolve the future of the Dry Creek saltfields.
Sadly, the saltfields current operations, and collapsing infrastructure, pose an ongoing risk to neighbours, the St Kilda mangroves, and the saltmarshes.
Options for the future have been developed by Adelaide University researchers and outlined in Shifting Salts: Reimagining The Dry Creek Salt Fields, Transforming former salt evaporation ponds into opportunities for the future of northern Adelaide.
Possible scenarios include the status quo, resumption of salt mining, tidal restoration, stormwater detention, recycled wastewater treatment, mixed use development.
Save St Kilda Mangroves Alliance members will be lobbying for large scale tidal restoration, especially of the Crown Land areas, which will secure the future of the Adelaide international Bird Sanctuary, lessen the risks of the impact of sea level rise and storm surges, provide areas for mangrove and saltmarsh to establish, sequester carbon stocks, provide areas to treat stormwater from the proposed new housing developments of the northern suburbs, and connect the landlocked creeklines back to the sea. Tidally connected creeks are vital hatcheries and juvenile nurseries for the fishing industry and for recreational fishermen and also allow fish that breed at sea and return to land, like congolli and galaxias, to breed.
We petition the SA Government to
· undertake in-depth consideration of Shifting Salts and work collaboratively with all stakeholders to develop and implement a long-term plan for the saltfields
· act quickly to prevent another disaster, since publicly available data indicates that the current operations of the saltfields could readily lead to a breach in a bund, or another release of hypersaline brine.
*** Please note that any donations given on the change.org site for this petition do not go to help those volunteering their time for this action, it goes to pay for more promotions on the change.org site! ***
Stay up to date at savestkildamangroves.com
You have my heartfelt thanks for joining us,
Peri Coleman, for the Save St Kilda Mangroves Alliance
Resident of South Australia
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Petition created on 17 August 2026