How does one approach your community to work on your neighbouring lake that's turned into a slimy pool ??

Question

How do the environ groups help initiate some work on these lakes ?? I would love our school kids to start a community initiative.........

Answer 1

Call a meeting of local residents of Blue Haven which will be able to identify issues that there is a crisis of slimy pool ??

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• Local Community Consultation with residents of Blue Haven, Local Council, NSW Government, Federal Government

• Develop a action plan –  Local Council, NSW Government, Federal Government

• More community meetings – follow up on letters written to key stakeholders

• Visit local members of government

•Community Action Plan to enable local communities to be fully involved

The Strategic Action Plan sets out a range of key strategies and priority actions covering:

•Policy development and legislation

•Local, State, Federal Government strategic planning

•taxation and finance packages for developers to fix local swimming pool

organise a press release media coverage is always good

Answer 2

This is a good question; a question well worth considering.

Why? Because it deals with how we relate to one another.

A subject with 6 billion different answers... depending on who you talk to.

Personally the best way I have come across, to engage others in a mutual endeavor, is to recognize that other people besides my self,  have similar  concerns about all kinds of things....the environment, fuel costs, good food, inflation, the economy and so forth....albeit.... we surely have different talents to contribute to the pursuit of any single cause. Approach potential allies this way.

Then: don't fear.

Fear is an imaginary opponent.

Especially, don't fear: other people's judgment.

VERY IMPORTANT>>>Remember to look up and dial the phone numbers. Watch your finger dial...when they answer, just be yourself. Express your concerns, find common ground.

Connect the dots. Host events. Clean up the lake parties. Set dates, clean the lake up. Get peoples names and numbers, and an email list! Send out a follow up news letter, get one set of people to commit to long term maintenance duty on the lake, and another to get people to sign people up for  the "next clean the lake up" date.

None of us have all the answers. Listen to the suggestions of others. Give credit where credit is due. Deligate, deligate, deligate....

Good luck!

Answer 3

Contact the homeowner's association and ask them how to go about it.  They might have established guidelines. If there isn't an association try passing out flyers requesting volunteers.

Answer 4

What about an ad in the local paper, with a postal address or a phone number where people could leave their names and levels of interest, then contact your local council and say "hey I've been contacted by 20 people, how about you guys get the truck/whatever and we do this thing!  Get your local plant nursery's involved for water plants etc, the schools, you could even have a sausage sizzle to raise funds on the day!

Go you good thing!

Answer 5

just call the cops...

Answer 6

Get absoloutly everyone in the local area involved in this, set up a bring and buy sale, next to the slimey lake, let people come and look at it, spend time round it, and at the same time, buy things from your stalls.

Organise some food, a bbq...get everyone in the community involved, and all the money raised from your bring and buy sale can go towards cleaning up the lake. Get a pettition going, show the local council you are really seriouse about this, and the COMMUNITY WANTS IT.

Im sure when everyone has spent an afternoon around the slimey lake they will be more than happy to sign your pettition.