Pesticide Notifications

We aim to reduce the use of pesticides across Byron Shire.

Find notifications about pesticide use, register your pesticide use with Council or let us know if you want to avoid pesticide use near your property.

Current Pesticide Use Notifications 

No current spraying notifications.

For more information, please contact the Council Depot on 02 6685 9300.

Bush Regeneration Team - Pesticide notification

Our bush regeneration team does ecological restoration across the Shire. The work is part of an ongoing program. It includes:

  • Replacing environmental weeds with self sustaining native plant communities
  • Controlling significant noxious and environmental weeds.

The work locations, chemicals used and application methods are listed below:

Coastal Sites

  • Brunswick Heads dunes (north of Surf Life Saving Club)
  • Cavvanbah St Road Reserve, Cavvanbah dunes
  • South Golden Beach dunes
  • Seven Mile Beach dunes
  • Belongil Beach dunes
  • Brunswick River Reserve (adjacent to boat ramp)
  • Suffolk Park Dunes
  • Midgen Park, Suffolk Park
  • Skinners Shoot

Hinterland sites

  • McLeod’s Shoot, Coolamon Scenic Drive
  • Kohinur Hall, Main Arm
  • Pioneer Bridge, Wilson’s Creek Rd
  • Huonbrook, Coopers Creek
  • Pipeclay Creek, Lagoon Rd Myocum
  • Mullumbimby Cemetery
  • Mullumbimby Football Club
  • Left Bank Road Reserve, Mullumbimby

Urban reserves

  • Bushland reserves within and around Baywood Chase, Suffolk Park
  • Bushland reserves adjoining Cemetery Rd and Lilli Pilli Rd, Byron Bay
  • Heathland sites at Paterson Hill, Byron Bay (Ruskin and Paterson St)
  • Heritage Park, Mullumbimby
  • Yallakool Reserve, Ocean Shores
  • Azalea Street Park, Mullumbimby
  • Paddies Creek, Bangalow

Operational land – Water and Recycling division

  • West Byron Sewerage Treatment Plant, Bayshore Drive Byron Bay
  • Vallances Rd Sewerage Treatment Plant, Mullumbimby
  • Ocean Shores Sewerage Treatment Plant

Chemicals used

  • Glyphosate such as Weedmaster Duo
  • Metsulfuron-methyl such as Associate, Brush Off
  • Additives:
    • Wetters/spreaders/penetrants eg. Pulse, Protech Plus
    • Herbidye

Method of application

Spot spraying using backpack, cut-scrape and paint, scrape and paint, basal bark, stem injection method.

Weed control

Weed control is conducted by service providers for spot and directed spraying as required. This maintains safety and amenity. This work complies with the Pesticide Notification Plan.

Cemeteries

Council-maintained cemeteries in Bangalow, Clunes, Byron Bay, and Mullumbimby.

Parks, reserves and beaches

Parks, reserves and beaches at South Golden Beach, New Brighton, Ocean Shores, North Ocean Shores, Brunswick Heads, Mullumbimby, Byron Bay, Suffolk Park, Seven Mile Beach, Bangalow and Federal.

Contact Gerard Roche 02 6685 9301

Roads and drainage

Council controlled road network and drainage reserve areas throughout Byron Shire.

Contact Works Depot 02 6685 9300 

Landcare and community gardening groups

Various groups take part in weed control projects in the Byron Shire. The work is part of an ongoing program, replacing environmental weeds with self sustaining native plant communities and controlling weeds in public gardens.

Groups and locations where spot or directional weed spraying may be carried out on Council-owned or managed lands are listed below:

Name of group or bush regenerator Location of worksite on council owned or managed land
Bangalow Land and Rivercare Paddys Creek, Byron Creek, Bangalow Pool
Big Scrub Rainforest Landcare Booyong Recreation Reserve, Nobles Scrub Recreation Reserve
Suffolk Park Dunecare Dunes along Alcorn Street, Suffolk Park; Midgen Park
Green and Clean Awareness Team Main Beach and Clarkes Beach
Cavanbah Dunecare Belongil Beach and Cavanbah St Road Reserve
Brunswick Heads Dunecare Brunswick Heads dunes and Torakina Reserve
New Brighton Dunecare Dunes along The Esplanade
North Head Road, New Brighton
South Golden Beach Dunecare South Golden Beach dunes from Fern Beach Walkway to 200m south of Community Centre
Yallakool Landcare Yallakool Community Reserve
Ewingsdale Landcare Public land at the end of Bay Vista Drive
Brunswick Heads Landcare The Terrace Park, Brunswick Heads
Friends of the Koala and Brunswick Valley Landcare Reserve in Lagoon Drive Myocum
Brunswick Valley Landcare Inc Palm Park to Federation Bridge, Mullumbimby
Saltwater Creek adjacent to Mullumbimby Pool,
Riverside Drive Mullumbimby
Casuarina Street Road Reserve
Mullumbimby Creek, in Mullumbimby
North New Brighton Dunecare North of Park Street beach access, New Brighton

The chemicals used by these groups at the above locations may include:

  • Glyphosate 360g a.i/L e.g. Weedmaster Duo
  • Metsulfuron-methyl 600g a.i/kg e.g. Brush Off
  • Wetters/spreaders/penetrants e.g. LI 700, Protech Plus, Pulse
  • Herbidye e.g. Pergasol Red, Simplot Blue.

Our Chemical Sensitive Register

We maintain a register for Chemical Sensitive Residents and Organic Growers.

If you would like to be placed on the Register, or would like to renew your registration, please complete the Chemical Sensitive Register Online Form

Details will be kept confidential and only given to authorised spraying contractors for the purposes of notifying you of proposed spraying.

You will be notified if herbicide application is to be conducted within 50m (or 100m for boom spraying) from the registered address. 

We remind residents that if their road frontage is maintained, this will reduce the need for spraying.

For more information, please contact the Council Depot on 02 6685 9300

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