Final Gwydir Regional Water Strategy
The Gwydir Regional Water Strategy was adopted in November 2022.
Public consultation 1
The first draft Gwydir Regional Water Strategy, which considers urban water needs, reliable water supply and the environment, was on public exhibition from 25 September – 13 December 2020.
The draft strategy was a set of 3 documents:
A comprehensive engagement and consultation program accompanied the release of the draft strategy. This included:
- face-to-face meetings
- online webinars
- formal submissions.
What we heard
Over 50 stakeholders participated in the engagement program and 32 formal submissions were received. Key themes that emerged during this consultation include climate and modelling, Aboriginal water rights and connection to Country, environmental health and connectivity, new and existing water infrastructure, groundwater, and entitlement reliability and risk management.
Submissions
We are sharing collected community and stakeholder submissions for the region along with cultural and general submissions.
- Submission 1 (PDF 324.6 KB)
- Submission 2 (PDF 326.1 KB)
- Submission 3 Water Resources Drilling (PDF 363.6 KB)
- Submission 4 (PDF 152.6 KB)
- Submission 5 (PDF 25.5 KB)
- Submission 6 (PDF 28.3 KB)
- Submission 7 Inverell Shire Council (PDF 360.5 KB)
- Submission 8 (PDF 375.7 KB)
- Submission 9 (PDF 375.8 KB)
- Submission 10 (PDF 2.7 MB)
- Submission 11 (PDF 22.0 KB)
- Submission 12 National Parks Association of NSW (PDF 91.0 KB)
- Submission 13 (PDF 5.9 MB)
- Submission 14 Nature Conservation Council (PDF 236.6 KB)
- Submission 15 (PDF 87.5 KB)
- Submission 16 Australian Floodplain Association (PDF 282.8 KB)
- Submission 17 - has some unredacted information (PDF 704.8 KB)
- Submission 18 National Parks Assocation of NSW (PDF 174.5 KB)
- Submission 19 (PDF 331.4 KB)
- Submission 20 (PDF 326.7 KB)
- Submission 21 (PDF 332.2 KB)
- Submission 22 (PDF 676.1 KB)
- Submission 23 (PDF 128.5 KB)
- Submission 24 NSW Irrigators Council (PDF 343.3 KB)
- Submission 25 (PDF 262.6 KB)
- Submission 26 Gwydir Valley Irrigators Association (PDF 294.3 KB)
Public consultation 2
After incorporating the feedback from the community, the Gwydir Regional Water Strategy was on a second public exhibition from Wednesday, 1 June, until Wednesday, 29 June 2022.
The second draft was a set of two documents:
What we heard
In the second round of the public exhibition of Gwydir Regional Water Strategy, 56 stakeholders participated, and we received 8 formal submissions. Two additional topics were identified, relating to improving connectivity within and between catchments and the implementation, alignment and evaluation of the draft strategy.
Submissions
We are sharing collected community and stakeholder submissions for the region.
- Submission 1 (PDF 110.3 KB)
- Submission 2 (PDF 11.6 MB)
- Submission 3 – Nature Conservation Council (PDF 166.4 KB)
- Submission 4 – Inland Rivers Network (PDF 392.6 KB)
- Submission 5 – Moree Plains Shire Council (PDF 335.5 KB)
- Submission 6 – Armidale Branch National Parks Association NSW (PDF 256.8 KB)
- Submission 7 – Commonwealth Environmental Water Office (PDF 236.0 KB)