Implementation Committee
Grow West is a major landscape change project being undertaken in the Bacchus Marsh area of the Werribee catchment. It involves cooperation between landholders and various organisations to achieve large-scale revegetation on public and private land using funds from various sources.
The Port Phillip and Westernport Catchment Management Authority officially appointed 10 committee members to the Grow West Implementation Committee. The committee's role is to determine the strategic directions for the project and to oversee the implementation and management of the project.
The inaugural meeting was held on the 30th June 2005 with the group meeting bi-monthly. It's membership comprises of local landholders, business people and representation from the Port Phillip and Westernport Catchment Management Authority (the PPWPCMA) and the Department of Primary Industries.
The PPWPCMA can form sub-committees and define their functions and membership under the provisions of the Catchment and Land Protection Act 1994. The Grow West Implementation Committee is established and appointed by the PPWPCMA under these provisions.
Standing (Left to Right): Lance Jennison, Bruce Gardner, John Forrester, David Buntine, Cr. Michael Tudball, Rob Youl
Seated (Left to Right): John Cutler, David Fisken
Grow West Steering Committee Members
| Mr David Buntine | Port Phillip & Westernport Catchment Management Authority |
| Mr John Cutler | Chairperson, community member |
| Mr David Fisken | Executive Officer, Central Victorian Farm Plantations Committee |
| Mr John Forrester | Grow West Implementation Committee Executive Officer | Mr Bruce Gardner | Sustainable Landscapes, Southern Department of Primary Industries |
| Mr Byron Guthrie | community member |
| Mr Russell Hendry | community member |
| Mr Phillip Neville | Melbourne Water |
| Mr Graham Simpson | Community member |
| Cr Michael Tudball | Moorabool Shire Councillor |
| Mr Colin Wilkie | Southern Rural Water |
| Mr Rob Youl | Landcare Australia Victoria |
