Projects

major projects

Examples of recent projects ecoteam has managed include:

• The Nyaru Menteng orang utan rehabilitation centre wastewater treatment wetland project, Borneo, Indonesia. Dr Bolton and the team donated their services to design and implement a wetland-based water treatment system to treat animal enclosure washdown water to a high quality. Learn more here

• The West Byron Effluent Reuse Wetland project which involved the hand-planting of 750,000 paperbark trees to reuse and 'polish' Byron Bay's sewage effluent through its secondary treatment stage in a 24 ha constructed.wetland. Learn more here

• The Malabugilmah treatment wetlands built by members of this remote Aboriginal community in the Northern Rivers region's Upper Clarence Valley. The project incorporated social development and skills-building features not normally associated with the installation of new infrastructure. Learn more here. Watch a video here

• The North Coast mop crop project which aims to develop mop crop technology for high rainfall areas in the North Coast of Australia. Mop crops such as hemp, bamboo or kenaf present a positive alternative to disposing of effluent onto land or water and can turn wastewater into resourcewater. Learn more here

• The Ngulingah Community Land and Business Plan which identified the key goals of the Ngulingah Local Aboriginal Land Council(LARC) and its 280 members.The Plan is a requirement of the Federal Government and comprehensive consultation helped to identify those enterprises and activities most favoured by the Ngulingah people, descendants of the Bundjalung Nation. Learn more here