Blue Gum Lake Statement of Significance
Blue Gum Reserve is a significant element of the string of local freshwater lakes, important as a natural environment, for initial association with indigenous Aboriginal people and later the pioneer settlers. SIGNIFICANT ITEMS: The entire Reserve comprising bushland, lake and flora species. Physical Description Blue Gum Reserve comprises a wetland of natural, indigenous woodland with a central lake (dry in summer); the Reserve is now surrounded by a locality fully developed for residential use. The City of Melville has in place a program of rehabilitation to control weeds, to regenerate native species of sedges and trees around the lake and improvement of water quality including storm water issuing into the lake from the surrounding streets and residential development, botulism and the eradication of feral birds and animals. The lake hosts a rich variety of local and visiting bird life, as many as seventy different species. The wetland flora is dominated by Freshwater Paperbark, Swamp Banksia and Flooded Gum. Local frog species and the Western Long-Necked Tortoise are common, as well as some aquatic invertebrates. |
Blue Gum lake |