Save Our Waterways Now

Mark Crocker, SOWN Community Liaison Officer and Robert Whyte, SOWN Director at Walton Bridge Reserve, Enoggera Creek, The Gap, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

Save Our Waterways Now (SOWN) is a community-based organisation rehabilitating Enoggera catchment in Brisbane, the largest city in Queensland, Australia.[1] The principal waterway in the Enoggera catchment is Enoggera Creek with two main tributaries, Fish Creek and Ithaca Creek.[2]

SOWN was incorporated on 18 February 1998 as Save Our Waterways - Now Inc., organisation number IA19057, an association under the jurisdiction of the Office of Fair Trading, Queensland.[3] SOWN was formed as a response to habitat loss and environmental degradation. Enoggera Creek and its tributaries had been degraded by past agricultural land-uses and by the dumping of refuse and garden waste from the homes and developments in the catchment.[4]

SOWN operates a volunteer-run plant nursery which propagates more than 30,000 locally native species every year and provides them free to SOWN members.[5]

  1. ^ Brisbane City Council web site
  2. ^ "Know your creek: Breakfast-Enoggera Creek", Brisbane City Council, 2010
  3. ^ Australian Securities & Investments Commission database
  4. ^ About SOWN
  5. ^ The Creek in Our Backyard. Save Our Waterways Now. 2011. ISBN 978-0-646-55158-6.