The Coastal and Estuary Grants Program underpins the implementation of the coastal management framework and supports local councils and communities to achieve the state’s long-term vision for the coast.
This report summarises the performance of 210 swimming sites along the NSW coast in 2020–2021, providing a long-term assessment of how suitable a site is for swimming.
This document provides a technical background to the factors controlling entrance dynamics of intermittently closed and open lakes and lagoons, how entrance dynamics affect water quality and ecology, and the likely consequences of different management interventions.
The New South Wales Department of Planning, Industry and Environment commissioned the Coastal and Estuary Funding Project to explore improvements to the current funding program.
This study was funded by the Office of Environment and Heritage to help councils understand the differences between local rainfall data and the 1987-2016 Intensity, Frequency and Duration (design rainfall) estimates.