Wooranna Park Primary School grade three students, from left, Hanna, Rachel, Danijel, Kack and Zoe with the stencilled waterway message.
WOORANNA Park Primary School students are helping pioneer a water-saving initiative in Greater Dandenong using artists’ stencils.
The Dandenong North-based students are stencilling messages onto drain covers promoting the health of waterways as part of an initiative between the school, Greater Dandenong Council and Melbourne Water.
Melbourne Water general manager of waterways Chris Chesterfield said ‘drain stencilling’ was an effective way to remind the community that litter and pollutants from the street could end up in stormwater drains and into rivers and creeks, and eventually Port Phillip.
“Litter and stormwater pollution can have a major impact on the health of our waterways and the native animals and plants that live there,” Mr Chesterfield said. “We hope these simple drain stencils will remind people that their litter and other pollutants can have a harmful effect on waterways, if allowed to get into the drains.”
