Heritage

When the Sydney Catchment Authority (SCA) was established in 1999 to protect the catchments and manage the dams that provide Sydney's water supply, we inherited a rich and diverse cultural heritage. The SCA recognises it has a special responsibility to protect and manage its assets, to preserve evidence of Aboriginal and non-indigenous heritage.

The SCA manages a diverse range of cultural heritage items, including:

  • dams and associated infrastructure
  • weirs
  • homesteads
  • mining infrastructure
  • bridges, and
  • significant indigenous sites.

This diversity comes from the long history of water supply and the purchase of former pastoral and mining lands. There are also vast areas of undeveloped land in the Special Areas that hold valuable evidence of Aboriginal heritage.

The condition of the SCA's heritage assets is reported each year in the annual report.