Clean Up Australia Day events were cancelled across Noosa Shire last Sunday but some individuals continued their efforts.
At Peregian Beach, the surf lifesaving club and its nippers put in a mammoth effort to reduce the rubbish and styrofoam from smashed pontoons that had been deposited on the beach during the floods.
Noosa councillor Frank Wilkie joined the crew at Peregian Beach and passed on his advice that the Moreton Bay Marine Park was full of similar debris which would continue to wash up on our coastline for weeks.
Marine Services Queensland, responsible for managing marine hazards, has engaged Clayton’s Towing to remove the pontoons from our coastline, including one taken from Sunshine Beach last week, he said.
He said the work would continue for some time and he urged people to continue to leave rubbish at beach access bins for collection.
Other council crews will also be working to address landslips, damaged roads, sewage spills and assist people whose properties were flooded.
The advice is this will be a long-haul, collective effort, Cr Wilkie said.
Cr Joe Jurisevic, who was organising Clean Up Australia Day events, said the recent flooding with rivers and lakes still in flood, and further storms forecast, made conditions unsafe for volunteers, and communities were focused on recovery.
“We will look at rescheduling smaller localised Clean Up events with our community once conditions allow,“ he said.
