Collection: Local Book

Newsletter of the Hawkesbury-Nepean Catchment Management Trust. Its purpose is to inform about the Trust, why it was set up, what its aims and objectives are and the Trust's activities

The western bank of the Nepean River has been identified as a priority area for the development of a riparian corridor plan of management. This plan covers the area from Tunnel Gully Creek (adjacent to Lapstone Place) to the southern edge of Regatta Park.

Jim Board's life story growing up in Colyton, East Devon, England. Colyton is set in the vale of the River Coly. Donated by the author from Colyton, Devon, England.

Long term strategic approach to ensuring sound management of water resources of NSW Water Board in Hawkesbury-Nepean rivers

Overview of water quality in the Hawkesbury-Nepean River & its tributaries for the 5 year period to January 1990. These reports provide a reference baseline for the long-term monitoring that forms a key component of the Hawkesbury Nepean program

Floods came every few years and the damage caused was immense. There were bad floods in 1800, 1801 they were devastating in 1806, 1809 in the next decade four being experienced between 1818,1820 one of which was nearly as high as the great flood of 1809.

Notes from a workshop held as part of the development of a riverbank management program for the Hawkesbury-Nepean River.

Description of existing conditions of Hawkesbury-Nepean riverbanks at Penrith, their physical,Biological & human features.Strategy developed to ensure engineering works needed to stablise the banks are undertaken on an integral plan

The 1990 flood caused continued and increasingly severe damage to the riverbanks through slope failures. This report examined the issues and proposed uses of the river and presented Penrith Council with a longterm riverbank management strategy for conside