River health data

The Sydney Catchment Authority (SCA) makes its unpublished river health data publicly available on request and in accordance with Government policies about information access. The SCA may charge to process and service information requests. Please note the SCA may charge to provide information if it is to be used for commercial purposes.

The following list represents existing unpublished reports, data and information about river health. If you are interested in obtaining this information, please contact the SCA.

Environmental Flows

  • Upper Nepean Environmental Flows Monitoring – Year 1 Progress Report – Sinclair Knight Merz, 2011
  • Shoalhaven River Environmental Flows Monitoring – Year 2 Report – Sinclair Knight Merz, 2011 
  • Woronora River Environmental Flows Assessment – Spring 2010 Macroinvertebrate and Periphyton Monitoring Study – ALS Water Science Group, 2011
  • Shoalhaven River Environmental Flows Monitoring – Year 1 Report, November 2009, Sinclair Knight Merz
  • Reduced Environmental Flows Monitoring Program Report, October 2007, Martin Krogh and Aaron Wright, Department of Environment and Climate Change Waters and Coastal Science Division, Scientific Service Division
  • Effects of Reduced Environmental Water Allocations in the Hawkesbury-Nepean Catchment, 2006 – Ecowise Environmental, April 2007
  • Collection of Autumn Baseline Data prior to Environmental Flow Releases from Avon Dam: Final Report - Ecowise Environmental, April 2006
  • Avon River Environmental Flows Project Monitoring Report – Year 1. SKM November 2008
  • Avon Dam: Integrated Environmental Flows Assessment Report – SKM April 2010
  • Woronora Environmental Flows Monitoring Year 2 Report – Ecowise Environmental, October 2009
  • Woronora Environmental Flows Monitoring – Macroinvertebrate, Periphyton Trip and 800ML Release Data Report Spring 2008, Ecowise Environmental July 2009
  • Woronora Environmental Flows Monitoring Year 1 Report – Ecowise Environmental March 2009
  • Woronora Environmental Flows Monitoring, Macroinvertebrate Data Report – Spring 2009, Ecowise Environmental December 2009
  • Woronora River Environmental Flows Monitoring, Desktop Analysis of Existing Macroinvertebrate, Diatom and Flow Data from 1995 to 2006, Ecowise Environmental December 2008

Macroinvertebrate Studies

  • Macroinvertebrate Monitoring Program 2008 - Final Report - Ecowise Environmental
  • Macroinvertebrate Monitoring Program 2007 - Final Report - Ecowise Environmental
  • Macroinvertebrate Monitoring Program 2006 - Final Report - Ecowise Environmental, May 2007
  • Woronora Baseline Macroinvertebrate and Diatorm Monitoring Program: Phase 6 - Final Report - Ecowise Environmental, May 2007
  • Woronora Baseline Macroinvertebrate and Diatom Monitoring - Phase 4 (June 2005) Ecowise Environmental
  • Woronora Baseline Macroinvertebrate and Diatom Monitoring - Phase 5, Ecowise Environmental
  • Macroinvertebrate Monitoring Program - 2005 - Ecowise Environmental
  • SCA Macroinvertebrate Monitoring Program: 2004 (June 2005) Ecowise Environmental
  • Final Report Impact of Bulk Water Transfer on Macroinvertebrate Communities within the Upper Nepean and Wingecarribee catchments, March 2004
  • Diversity of riverine macroinvertebrates at selected sites within the Sydney drinking water supply areas, March 2003 - (Environment Protection Authority study for SCA)
  • Macroinvertebrate Sampling of an Unnamed Tributary of Farmers Creek Lithgow, April 2001 - AMBS Consulting
  • Woronora Baseline Macroinvertebrate and Diatom Monitoring Program: Phase 7 – 2007, Ecowise Environmental March 2009

Platypus Studies

  • Platypus Studies in the Wingecarribee and Upper Nepean River Systems between 1991 and 2006, including periods of extended operational water transfers during 2003-2006 - T.R. Grant Education and Environmental Services Pty Ltd
  • Platypus monitoring studies in the Wingecarribee River and Doudles Folly Creek - upper Nepean System - August 1992 - June 2004 (November 2004) Dr Tom Grant, Education and Environment Services Pty Ltd
  • Platypus Studies in the Wingecarribee River and Glenquarry - Doudles Folly Creek - Nepean River System - Monitoring April-May 2002 - TR Grant Educational and Environment Services Pty Ltd
  • Platypus Survey in the Nepean, Avon, Cordeaux and Cataract Rivers between the dams and Pheasants Nest and Broughtons Pass Weirs, December - TR Grant Educational and Environmental Services Pty Ltd

Other

  • Streamwatch Quality Assurance 2009 Report - Sydney Water
  • Water Management Licence Annual Monitoring and Compliance Reports
  • Water quality impacts of the water transfer from the Shoalhaven system of the Warragamba system, October 2003 - SCA and Australian Water Technologies
  • Wingecarribee Reservoir - Review of Hydrology of the Reservoir and Adjacent Swamp under Operational Transfers 2003 - Parsons Brinckerhoff
  • Final Report Shoalhaven Bulkwater Transfer June 2003 - Australian Water Technologies and SCA
  • Environmental Assessment of Upper Nepean Bulk Water Transfers, May 2003 - Woodlots and Wetlands
  • Longitudinal Survey of the Woronora River from the Woronora Dam to the Needles Final Report October 2002 - Patterson Britton and Partners Pty Ltd and Biosis Research
  • Aquatic Ecological Survey, Robertson, NSW 2001 - Tuft and Associates
  • Calibration of Flows in the Woronora River - Destratification of Deep Pools, May 2001 - Hydrometric Consulting Services
  • Ecological assessment of Tonalli River Final Report, August 2001 - Australian Water Technologies
  • Impacts of Operational Discharges into Glenquarry and Doudles Folly Creek - Woodlots and Wetlands