A meeting of the Katandra Invergordon United Dairy Farmers of Victoria in May 1991, it was suggested that a Landcare group be established. This was taken up and the initial name was the Katandra West Salinity Prevention group but this was later changed to the Katandra West Landcare group Inc.

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• Varies field days have been held over the years regarding tree planting, salinity prevention measures, automatic irrigation, channel construction, improved drainage and tile drainage. At Katandra much of the area has a perched watertable (layer of clay close to the surface which prevents water seeping to the actual watertable). The UDV initiated the installation of the tile drainage on two properties. The Landcare group had two field days on the site. The report on tile drainage concluded that soil salinity had improved due to the operation of the tile drainage.
• We have been involved with the Katandra West Primary School with planting understorey shrubs to attract back the threatened Bush-stone Curlew and Squirrel Gliders al the Inglis Reserve close t Katandra.
• In 1996 we were involved with the Department of Agriculture with the EM Soil Salinity Testing. The results concluded that of the soils tested 95% had an A++ rating. A few spots were to be followed up.
• Katandra West was one of the first groups to have monthly monitoring of test wells.