Corporate goals

The Sydney Catchment Authority (SCA) focuses its efforts on the following four corporate goals.

• High quality water supply
  • Raw water deliveries meet agreed quantity and quality specifications
  • Our dams and delivery systems are safe, efficient, well operated and maintained
  • Our water supply system operates successfully during droughts, floods, fires and other extreme events
  • Water supply planning and asset investment keep pace with our current and future requirements
• Sustainable catchments
  • Reduced environmental degradation to improve water quality
  • Reduced priority pollutants
  • Reduced environmental impacts of our operations
  • Development and activities comply with Sustaining the Catchments: The Regional Plan for the drinking water catchments of Sydney and adjacent regional centres
  • Our lands are managed to contemporary standards
  • Improved awareness about how the catchment communities contribute to protecting water quality
• Strategic partnerships
  • Working with local government to implement Sustaining the Catchments: The Regional Plan for the drinking water catchment
  • Working with the catchment management authorities, local government and catchment communities to implement our Healthy Catchments Program (HCP)
  • Working with other government agencies to deliver the Metropolitan Water Plan
  • Working closely with the Department of Environment and Climate Change to manage the Special Areas for water quality and biodiversity
• Successful business
  • People are safe at the SCA
  • We have the right people with the right skills at the right time
  • We have a rigorous risk management framework
  • Our tools, systems and knowledge keep pace with our business
  • We meet the Statement of Financial Framework targets
  • The community is confident about how we make our business decisions

Details about how the SCA will work to achieve its key result areas, and targets and outcomes are contained in our Corporate Plan 2007-2012.