Drinking water catchments
The drinking water catchments that exist south and west of Sydney include some of the most pristine habitats in NSW. Flora and fauna surveys have discovered healthy ecosystems packed with threatened species functioning much as they would have for millennia.
The Warragamba Special Area
Warragamba Dam and Lake Burragorang are known to most Sydneysiders as the source of their everyday drinking water. However, the catchment for this water supply is an extensive part of the southern Blue Mountains which encompasses a stunning variety of habitats and hundreds of threatened species. Download vegetation mapping and fauna reports below.
The Woronora Plateau: Metropolitan, O'Hare's Creek and Woronora Special Areas
Southern Sydney and Wollongong get their drinking water from the catchments on the Woronora Plateau, which runs between Heathcote and Robertson. This high-rainfall sandstone plateau hosts a variety of interesting vegetation communities, fauna habitats and threatened species. Download vegetation mapping and fauna reports below.
The Blue Mountains Special Areas: Blackheath, Katoomba and Woodford Creek
Drinking water for the Blue Mountains urban population is still collected in numerous small reservoirs alongside the Blue Mountains villages. Fauna studies have been completed for these catchments and can be downloaded below.
Documents to download
 | The Native Vegetation of the Warragamba Special Area - Part A
File size: 23.4MB Download Chapter 1 (PDF, 2.9MB) of this report
| |  | The Native Vegetation of the Warragamba Special Area - Part B
File size: 9.9MB |
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 | The Fauna of the Warragamba Special Area
File size: 1.63MB Download Part 1 (PDF, 529KB) and Part 2 (PDF, 1.1MB) of this report
| |  | The Fauna of the Metropolitan, O'Hare's Creek and Woronora Special Areas
File size: 1.3MB Download Part 1 (PDF, 512KB) and Part 2 (PDF, 812KB) of this report
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 | Native vegetation of the Woronora, O'Hares and Metropolitan Catchments
File size: 26.7MB | |  | The Fauna of the Blue Mountains Special Areas: Blackheath, Katoomba and Woodford Creek
File size: 842KB |
Page last updated: 14 June 2011
