Growing plants and relationships at Railway Reserve

19 December 2024

The relationship between the Loy Yang B Maintenance Team 3 workers and volunteers at the Traralgon Railway Reservoir Conservation Reserve continues to strengthen, with our team recently completing its third volunteer day at the reserve.

We give our people an extra day of leave to volunteer with charities and not-for-profit groups which they are passionate about, and the reserve is a place this team continually loves to support.

Twelve holes were dug throughout the day with a little help from the mini digger to install four areas of post and rail fencing near Sylvia’s Bridge at south boundary of reserve. 

The team also mulched and spread offcuts of trees around the reserve, made enhancements to pathway corners, and installed a donated seat on the dam wall.

The Friends of the Traralgon Railway Reserve committee was thankful and appreciative of the great work that was done.

 “These tasks would have taken our small group of volunteers around 10 working bees worth of time to complete, and we can now use that time to undertake other important maintenance activities,” TRRCR committee member Gary Deane said.

We look forward to many more volunteer days at the reserve to come, as well as supporting it through our Community Partnership Program.

Loy Yang B maintenance workers with some of the fencing they built during a volunteer day at the Traralgon Railway Reservoir Conservation Reserve.

Loy Yang B maintenance workers with Friends of the Traralgon Railway Reserve committee members Graeme Turner and Gary Deane and some of the fencing built during a volunteer day.

An aerial view of Traralgon Railway Reserve

Traralgon Railway Reservoir Conservation Reserve

We’ve supported the Traralgon Railway Reservoir Conservation Reserve (TRRCR) volunteer committee to maintain the 29.5-hectare bush and grassland reserve for more than 25 years.