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Catchment Issues
INTRODUCTION

The Sydney Catchment Authority (SCA) who is responsible for the management of Sydney Water's catchment areas provides the information presented in this section.

This section of the report provides an overview of issues relating to catchment management that have occurred over the past quarter. The issues examined in this section are summarised below.

Compliance Activity

Sewage Strategy

Stormwater Strategy

 

Compliance Activity

The SCA has significantly increased its level of compliance activities in the 2004 financial year. The following statistics indicate the achievements over the past year:

  • Issued 8 POEO Act - Clean-Up Notices
  • Issued 4 Notices requiring information
  • Issued 0 POEO Act - Pollution Prevention Notice
  • Issued 0 POEO Act - Penalty Infringement Notice
  • Issued 9 Penalty Infringement Notices for littering (1 for a company)
  • Referred 190 Littering Matters to EPA
  • Issued 79 Penalty Infringement Notices under the SWCM General Regulation
  • Issued 69 Warning letters

 

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Sewage Strategy

The SCA, as one of its key priorities has contributed to the improvement of sewage management in the country centres that are within the Nepean and Shoalhaven river catchments. These works are intended to improve the quality of water delivered to major storages for supply to metropolitan Sydney. In the 2003 financial year the following has been achieved:

  • Construction commenced on a $1.2 million effluent transfer main to increase the reliability of effluent re-use on Goulburn. When complete this main will overcome wet weather overflows of partially treated sewage at the Goulburn Sewage Treatment Plant.
  • Design upgrade for the Lithgow sewage treatment plant. The new facilities will dramatically reduce the impact of wet and dry-weather discharges to Farmers Creek in the upper reaches of the Coxs River.
  • The provision of sewerage facilities for Robertson moved forward with the finalisation of a strategy and selection of a site for the sewage treatment plant.
  • Environmental assessment was completed for an upgrade to the Bowral sewage treatment plant.
  • Evaluation of options for the upgrading of Wallerawang sewage treatment plant.
  • Gauging and modelling of the Goulburn sewerage reticulation system was completed and will be used as the basis for future rectification works.

 

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Stormwater Strategy

The SCA, as one of its key priorities has contributed to the improvement of stormwater management in the Nepean and Shoalhaven river catchments. These works are intended to improve the quality of water deliver to major storages for supply to metropolitan Sydney. At the end of June 2003 the SCA has contributed over $1.15 million over three years to assist councils to improve stormwater management.

 

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