Healthy Catchments Program
The Healthy Catchments Program (HCP) is the Sydney Catchment Authority’s (SCA) annual program of catchment protection and management activities to reduce the risk of priority pollutants to water quality in greater Sydney’s drinking water catchments.
The program supports our Healthy Catchments Strategy 2009-12. The strategy describes our direction, how we identify priority pollutants, and how we set priorities for preventative and remediation works in the catchments to protect water quality. The Strategy sets out the following broad initiatives to protect catchment health and water quality:
- Increase the use of water quality best management practices in rural land uses and activities
- Minimise the impact of sewage and stormwater on Sydney’s drinking water catchments
- Manage SCA land to contemporary standards to protect and optimise water quality, and to conserve the ecological integrity, and natural and cultural values of the area
- Carry out statutory and regulatory operations including compliance and land use planning
- Develop and maintain catchment partnerships that support collaborative and sustainable contributions to protect the catchments.
To achieve these initiatives the activities in the program include:
- grants and incentives
- community and industry funding support
- community and industry education and information support
- regulatory activities to address our responsibilities under legislation and the regional plan for the drinking water catchments
- work to develop best management practices and management tools to mitigate risks to water quality.
We consult and involve our catchment partners to develop and implement all of these activities.
You can read more about:
- Our catchment priorities
- Where the HCP activities are happening
- Rural land activities
- Sewage and stormwater activities
- SCA land management activities
- Our statutory and regulatory operations
- How we develop our catchment partnerships
You can also download the following documents:
