Healthy Coorong, Healthy Basin On Ground Works: Tolderol Game Reserve update
On Ground Works Project Update - December 2024
Construction works are due to commence on the On Ground Works project at Tolderol Game Reserve in early 2025.
The project for Tolderol Game Reserve recently gained the support of the South Australian Parliament Public Works Committee, marking one of the final planning milestones for the project.
Construction at Tolderol will take approximately 6 months to complete, weather and condition dependent, with a tentative timeframe of 6 January 2025 to 1 July 2025. Tolderol Game Reserve will be closed to the public for the duration of the construction works.
Further information will be provided closer to project commencement. For more information please contact:
Healthy Coorong, Healthy Basin program - healthy.coorong@sa.gov.au
National Parks and Wildlife Service Riverland and Murraylands Regional Office - rm.npws@sa.gov.au
What’s been happening at Tolderol?
Small-scale civil earthworks have been taking place at Tolderol Game Reserve during 2024, in preparation for the main construction works to begin in early 2025.
These works have involved the removal of embankments at some of the reserve’s smaller bays, enabling them to be merged into larger bays, which will improve water distribution efficiency across the site.
Some bays have also been ploughed and levelled to even-out undulations. This helps reduce high points and increase the extent of available foraging habitat for shorebirds by ensuring the bays remain uniformly below standing water levels. To retain soil productivity, topsoil is stockpiled and spread back once levelling is complete.
More information
- On Ground Works project - On Ground Works to support regional bird refugia and enhancing wetland habitat at Tolderol Game Reserve
- Visitor information - Tolderol Game Reserve SA National Parks at Wildlife
- National Parks - Closures & alerts
- Hunting on game reserves – Department for Environment and Water Hunting on Game Reserves
The Healthy Coorong, Healthy Basin program is jointly funded by the Australian Government and the Government of South Australia.
All images courtesy of Murraylands and Riverland Landscape Board.
