Smelter in the Park

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Smelter in the Park

• A Plan for environmental care at Portland
  Aluminium Smelter
• Zoning to extend the park boundary

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Using all youve got!

• The total area owned by the smelter is ???
  hectares. Zones were set up as part of the Master
  Plan and used for the basis of management and
  development.
• These are the zones (Click on each zone to look
  at what happens in each zone.)

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Zone A - A window for visitors

• A small area created to provide information for
  the public. Information boards are erected in a
  picnic area explaining the smelting process, the
  layout of the buildings, the various recreational
  activities available for public use, a history or
  the area.

For example, this board shows visitors where the
walks are throughout the parkland.
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Zone B Relaxation for the community

• Zone B is designed to provide recreational
  activities for the employees, their families and
  broader community. The area contains walking
  tracks, wildlife viewing sites, picnic areas and
  carparking. This area was designed to encourage
  staff to provide opportunities for staff,
  families and friends to interact with what the
  Park had to offer in the hope that they would
  develop positive views about environmental care
  at the Smelter (Hill, 1999).

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Zone C Places for learning

• This area invites the public into the buffer zone
  around the smelter. There are two houses that
  have been set up to run education programs for
  school children and other community groups,
  Baxter House and Salmon House.

Salmon House is used as the management centre for
the park. It also contains a farm used by the
community for educational purposes, and a nursery
for plant propagation and preparing materials for
community works.
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Zone D Habitats for wildlife

• This is the main area for flora and fauna
  conservation within a range of vegetation types.
  Within this area, there has been wetlands
  rehabilitation and revegetation of areas
  considered suitable as habitat for native fauna.
  These photos show the wetlands that has been
  rehabilitated from the disused landfill, now
  helping to conserve both wildlife habitat and
  water.

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Zone E Parkland for the Smelter

• Throughout the Smelter there are landscaped
  gardens, lunching areas, and vegetation that draw
  in the parklands surroundings. These areas serve
  to provide a healthy and attractive work
  environment.