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  • What is a catchment?
  • Healthy Catchments Strategy 2009-2012
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    • Rural lands
      • Dairy waste
      • Riparian areas
      • Grazing practices
      • Derelict mines
      • Erosion
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  • Sustainable grazing program
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  • Thirlmere Lakes

Rural lands


The Sydney Catchment Authority (SCA) aims to increase the use of water quality best management practices in rural land uses and activities in the drinking water catchments.

Around 93 percent of Sydney’s drinking water catchment is rural land. Rural land uses include agriculture, horticulture, forestry and mining. The SCA is currently addressing the following priority issues for rural lands in the catchment:

  • Dairy waste
  • Stock access to riparian areas
  • Grazing practices
  • Derelict mines
  • Erosion.
 
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