Volunteering on CUA Day is a rewarding experience. If you’d like to volunteer to help make our suburb beautiful , please register via the official Clean Up Australia Day Website Clean Up Australia Day click the hyperlink. You can also register on the day at any one of the registration tents, in Discovery Lake Parklands car park 180 Springfield Lakes Boulevarde or Peter Tullet Memorial Park, Woodline Drive, Spring Mountain.

We will still be collecting litter from around and in Discovery & Regatta Lakes as the recent roof and building repair work in Springfield Lakes has resulted in lots of plastic litter blowing off construction sites & entering the lakes via our drains, every time it rains. Residents who wish to participate to clean up their street can register at the tent in Discovery Parklands car park and will receive a bag for rubbish collection and gloves. For those people who own canoes or kayaks, Regatta Lake pontoon will still be available for you to park & register. You may launch vessels from either pontoon at Regatta Lake or Discovery Lake. If you have an area/street in Springfield Lakes you want to clean up and need bags & gloves prior to the event please, contact Secretary@slnc.org.au to organise a time for you to collect the items.

Participants are encouraged to wear sun protective clothing, closed in shoes, sunscreen /hat and byo water bottle, litter grabbers &gloves – garden gloves work well for adults & children. We do have disposable gloves but under Covidsafe regulations, we do request you bring your own equipment as much as possible. A healthy Morning Tea will be provided by LendLease & Milton Dick MP at the completion of the cleanup at 10.30 am. Thank you and we look forward to seeing you at any of the above locations on Sunday 7th March.

By keeping our lakes and waterways litter free, our community has an opportunity to keep Moreton Bay and our coastline cleaner. Plastic litter can last a lifetime and keeps becoming smaller and smaller, ending up as tiny micro pieces of plastic, which enter the food chain of marine creatures. Not only is plastic harmful when ingested it also becomes a hazard to animals who become entangled in it, causing drowning or severe injury which puts the animal at risk of death by starvation or inability to flee from predators as the litter impedes their mobility.