Governance of the estuary is multi-layered, with the waterways and foreshores owned and managed by a wide variety of stakeholders across multiple levels of government.

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working together

Up to now, the river has often been managed in a segmented approach to address locally specific issues. CMP process facilitates buy-in and participation by all levels of government and the community to achieve a strategic and coordinated management framework for the Hawkesbury Nepean tidal waterways and its catchment lands.

 
 
 
 

BENEFITS OF WORKING TOGETHER:

The collaborative approach will bring several benefits to partner councils, government agencies, stakeholders and the health of the river system.

 
 

Some benefits include:

  • a consistent, sustainable and strategic approach to the management of the Hawkesbury-Nepean River system that enables everyone’s priority objectives to be considered

  • the opportunity to address issues independently of jurisdictional boundaries

  • efficiency savings through economies of scale and the reduced duplication of studies, monitoring effort and community engagement

  • establishment of a framework for interagency co-ordination in particular between local and state government agencies

  • the ability to develop a framework for interagency co-ordination 

  • development of a platform to address catchment-related issues impacting on the social, economic and environmental values of the Hawkesbury system

 

HAWKESBURY-NEPEAN CMP IS LED BY THE STEERING COMMITTEE:

 

ADDITIONAL STAKEHOLDERS:

We would like to acknowledge the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the Hawkesbury River and surrounding lands and pay respect to their Ancestors and Elders past and present.