The long-standing Koo Wee Rup–Longwarry District Advisory Committee is a representative, ratepayer-based forum made up of local residents and interest groups, Melbourne Water and local councils.

The Committee plays a key role in shaping our drainage and flood protection strategies for the district. They make recommendations to Melbourne Water on a range of matters relevant to the district's ratepayers and residents, and advise on maintenance and works priorities so that the funds collected via the special precept charge are spent efficiently and equitably.

Each year the Committee meet three times and one of these is a tour of the District. This year we invited Melbourne Water Senior Leadership on the tour so they could hear directly from Committee members and look at a variety of different sites and challenges across the district and consider how we can work together.

The tour included sites of interest across the District including:

• Officer South drain - to talk through upstream development impacts on the District and drainage services schemes
• Deep Creek catch drain - to talk through the value of agriculture, challenges of flooding on agriculture, flood gates and tidal gates, experience with flood events, and climate change implications.
• Bunyip River at Little Road Bridge - to talk through Bunyip River maintenance and erosion and a possible District boundary review.

Local Melbourne Water staff took a back seat as Committee members talked through opportunities for improvement and how we can work together. All who attended remarked that they were glad to be able to have robust and honest conversations that ultimately result in better outcomes for the District.

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If you have any queries, please don't hesitate to contact us via email [email protected] or telephone 131 722.