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

Urban Growth Boundary update

After some previous delays, the controversial Growth Areas Infrastructure Contributions tax was slightly modified and the Victorian Parliament has now passed it. As at 6th July, Parliament is expected to soon reconsider the proposed expanded Urban Growth Boundary (UGB). If the legislation is passed it would also ratify a planning scheme amendment that identifies areas to be zoned Urban Growth Zone and well as Special Use and Rural Conservation Zones within the new UGB.

Commonwealth approval has already been given for the Strategic Impact Assessment which specifies the prescriptions about required protection and allowed destruction of EPBC listed communities and species.

See our main issues of concern at: Top ten Biodiversity Issues in the Merri catchment and you can also refer to the Merri Creek Unreserved Sites Map.

See our preferred vision for the Merri Valley at: 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