Adopt a Roadside program aims to reduce litter on Victoria’s roadsides to stop pollutants from entering local waterways, improves the quality of vegetation, and prevents soil degradation and erosion. It also promotes civic responsibility, community pride and fellowship. Adopt a Roadside volunteers help remove roadside litter and/or undertake revegetation works including the removal of weeds within Victoria’s arterial road network in regional Victoria.

In 2022, the group adopted 12km of the Strathfieldsaye - Eppalock Road from Longlea Lane to Lake Eppalock that forms the southern boundary of our group area.

3-4 times per year on a Sunday morning we welcome all community members aged between 14 – 86 years to assist members with roadside clean ups. Dates are published on our Facebook page and the Axedale Antics newsletter.

Volunteers meet at 9am at the Randell’s Cove entrance off Lyell Rd for a safety induction and allocated to a 1km section of Strathfieldsaye Rd equipped with sacks, gloves and pick-up sticks.

Participants return their sacks of rubbish collected to the meeting point by 10.30am where a Goulburn Murray Water staff member disposes of the rubbish collected.

This continues a long association of support by Goulburn-Murray Water for Landcare and caring for our local environment.