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Great Grain Festival 2012
Wycheproof VISION has received a great boost for the 2012 GGF and Music on the Mount with grants received from Festivals Australia and the Office of Multicultural Affairs Victoria. These grant will go some way to finance the outdoor concert Music on the Mount and the hosting of the dance extravaganza and workshops Bollywood on Broadway event with the Gowri Dances of India troup.
Stall site registration is open for the Festival Market on Saturday 17 March.
Announcing! Kevin Borich headlines Music on the Mount. Musician workshops- registration open  
Tickets on sale, on-line.  For information about tickets see the Great Grain Festival and Music on the Mount links in the menu on the left  

Entries open for Tennis Tournament
Be on the court for the hottest weekend of tennis: 10-12 March, Labour Day Long weekend. See details on the tournament page click here 

New brochure
Wycheproof VISION has launched a new town brochure. This colourful brochure highlights events and information about our town. Pick up your copy at the BP Service Station, Willandra Museum, The Penny Gallery, or Wycheproof Community Resource Centre.

Ulysses Club Mildura AGM 2012

See the Club website for information. Ulysses Club members will be making their way to Mildura during March 2012. Wycheproof extends a warm welcome to club members. Take a ride to the summit of the smallest mountain in Australia. Have a country pub lunch or coffee and lunch at the Mt Wycheproof Cafe. Stay a day or a week and make Wycheproof your base to explore the region. See the Wycheproof business directory here to book accommodation. For information on what to do and see in Wycheproof see the items on the menu listed on the left of this screen.

Slow Tracks A Canter Through Victoria and Country Races

Slow Tracks is a guide to regional Victoria that just happens to end up at some of the finest racetracks in the state including Wycheproof. Hear author Jude Fritcher on Bush telegraph  ABC Radio National

Living Green – Sustainability calendar      

 
Community Garden Project at Wycheproof
A new site has been found for the Wycheproof Community Garden at Centenary Park. Amy Turnbull is designing our community garden and plans will be available in the New Year. Work on the garden will start in January 2012.  EWHS has received funding and will provide a starter kit for the garden project. The kit includes shed, garden tools and barbecue. For information about the project see the brochures or talk to Kerry Punton  on  54772178.
    
Drinking water treatment plant for Wycheproof

On 23 June, Minister for Water, Peter Walsh, announced the State Government will provide $1m to install a two megalitre a day ultra filtration treatment plant at Wycheproof. This will be a dollar-for-dollar funded project with GWMWater and the total cost of the project is $2m. 

At the Wyche VISION June meeting GWMWater Executive Manager of Service Delivery, Stephen Jewell explained the proposal to upgrade the water supplied in Wycheproof to drinking quality. This will mean some rise in costs of water supply and the cost of water usage to residents and this was estimated to be 70 cents per week  ($42 per year). The site of the ultra filtration plant is still to be determined.

For some months now Wycheproof residents  have had to boil the town water for drinking and food preparation.  Stephen explained that the turbidity (the particles in the water such as clay and biological matter) and the colour of the water (also due to presence of organic matter) were directly related to problems in the Grampians catchment following the 2006 bushfires and the floods in September 2010 and January 2011. The water for Wycheproof is drawn from Lake Bellfield, which was badly affected by the floods and there was no alternative water source, he said.

Stephen said that the current state of Lake Bellfield was baffling experts. The water temperature from the top through to the bottom of the lake was the same and there was no settling of particulates making the water throughout the lake dirty.

The Wyche VISION meeting discussed the benefits to businesses in town and also for those wanting to establish value-adding business on farm and for livestock. It was agreed that having drinking quality water available to district farmers should be included as part of the planning for the water treatment plant. Stephen told the meeting that current water saving initiatives, such as the storm water collection dams used on the recreation reserve and Centenary Park, would not be affected with the establishment of a treatment plan.

Boil water notice  GWMWater has advised Wycheproof residents to boil the town water before use.  Due to problems being encountered as a result of the January flood, residents are advised to bring any water from the town water supply to a rolling boil prior to use for human consumption purposes including food preparation and ice making. This can be achieved by using an electric kettle with an automatic cut off switch.

GWMWater has a water cart located in O'Connor St for residents requiring clean water.

Thank you to all BlazeAid, volunteers who helped local farmers with fencing after the January floods.  BlazeAid volunteers completed their work in our district at the end of July. For further information iabout BlazeAid and current projects see the website www.blazeaid.com.

Rural support services. For a full list of local services that  are free and confidential click here

Wycheproof On Track  get your copy here
 
Local floods 2011: For information about flood recovery work or to volunteer click the Buloke Shire link. There is a newsletter informing residents of all aspects of flood recovery work and also how to volunteer. Volunteers can register at the Wycheproof Office of Buloke Shire Council.

Wycheproof Lake and flood photos: An album is now posted on this website. Thank you to the many people who supplied photos.