Welcome

The Merri Creek runs for approximately 70 kms, beginning near Heathcote Junction, a small town on Melbourne's northern outskirts, and joining the Yarra River at Dight's fall, Collingwood.

Friends of Merri Creek are a community group that has actively worked since 1988 to restore and protect the Merri Creek, its environs and tributaries.

Group activities include:

- Plantings and hands-on activities
- Litter blitzes
- Talks, Walks and Tours
- Campaigns against major threats to the Creek
- Community Education and Planning
- Water Quality Testing

URGENT NOTICE

Help stop the biggest threat to the Merri Creek

Help stop the loss of green wedge land, the destruction of native grasslands and further limiting of wildlife corridors by the proposed expansion of the Urban Growth Boundary. We ask you to please write to the Federal MInister for Environment, Peter Garrett, Parliament House, Canberra ACT 2600.

To assist you with your letter, please see our Top ten Biodiversity Issues in the Merri catchment and the Merri Creek Unreserved Sites Map.

Also see the our vision for the Merri Valley, Nature on Melbourne’s northern doorstep.

A picture of the Merri Creek near Galada Tamboore

The Merri Creek at Galada Tamboore (Wurundjeri language for "stream waterhole") in Campbellfield/Thomastown