Reports and guidelines
These documents give a detailed outline of the Lower Hawkesbury's health and guidelines to help residents protect it.
Best practice guidelines
- Hawkesbury Nepean Habitat Protection Plan No.3 - 126kb
- Environmentally Friendly Seawalls
- Environmental Action for Marina's, Boatsheds or Slipways - 1.1MB
- NSW Oyster Industry Sustainable Aquaculture Strategy
- Healthy estuaries for healthy oysters
- Managing Urban Stormwater - Soils and Construction - 1.5MB
- Acid Sulfate Soil Manual - 4.2MB
- Seagrass - Fish Habitat Protection Plan No.2 - 141.4kb
- Aquatic Ecology in Environmental Impact Assessment - 647kb
- Sand Nourishment
- NSW Estuary Tidal Inundation Exposure Assessment: Coastal Vulnerability Areas of Toolkit
- Sea Level Rise: Science and Synthesis for NSW
- Climate Change and Estuaries in NSW
Estuary Management Annual Reports
Council has Annual Reports dated 2003-2004 through to 2014-2015 which are available by contacting Council on 9847 6666.
Lower Hawkesbury
Berowra Creek
- Berowra Creek Estuary Management Study and Plan - 739kb
- Berowra Creek Estuary Processes Study – Sediment Characteristics and Processes - 2.9MB
- Berowra Creek Estuary Processes Study – Aquatic Ecological Investigations - 1.1MB
- Berowra Creek Estuary Processes Study – Estuarine Water Quality - 4.8MB
- Berowra Creek Estuary Processes Study – Review and Interpretation of Existing Data - 4MB
- Berowra Creek Estuary Management Plan Review - 361kb
Brooklyn
- Brooklyn Estuary Management Study - 3.7MB
- Brooklyn Estuary Process Study Volume 1 - 17MB
- Brooklyn Estuary Process Study Volume 2 - 11MB
- Brooklyn Estuary Management Plan - 2.3MB
Estuarine Health Surveys
- Biological Monitoring of Macrofauna in Artificail Units of Habitat - 531kb
- Estuarine habitat mapping and geomorphic characterisation of Lower Hawkesbury River and Pittwater estuaries - 2MB
Sediment and antifoul monitoring program
- 2014 Sediment and Antifoul Study Final Report (13MB)
- 2007 Sediment and Antifoul Study Final Report R001 - 172kb
- 2007 Sediment and Antifoul Monitoring Report Appendix A - 19.2MB
- 2007 Sediment and Antifoul Monitoring Report Appendix B - 5.2MB
Effects of climate change on estuary habitats within the Lower Hawkesbury River
- Hydrodynamic modelling of climate change scenarios for the lower Hawkesbury River - 3.6MB
- Resilience - Mangrove - Fig 6 11-34 - 1.6MB
- Resilience - Saltmarsh - Figs 6 35-58 Juncus - 1.6MB
- Resilience - Saltmarsh - Figs 6 59-82 Sporobolus - 2.2MB
- Resilience - Seagrass - Fig 6 1-10 - 758kb
- Risk - Mangrove - Fig 5 11-31 - 1.7MB
- Risk - Saltmarsh - Fig 5 32-50 Juncus - 1.7MB
- Risk - Saltmarsh - Fig 5 51-70 Sporobolus - 2.8MB
- Risk - Seagrass - Fig 5 1-10 - 860kb
- Vulnerability - Mangrove - Fig 7 5-12 - 845kb
- Vulnerability - Saltmarsh - Fig 7 13 -30 Juncus - 1.1MB
- Vulnerability - Saltmarsh - Fig 7 31-54 Sporobolus - 1.7MB
- Vulnerability - Seagrass - Fig 7 1-4 Seagrass - 483kb
- Vulnerability assessment of the effects of climate change on estuarine habitats - 2.7MB
Economic valuation of the Lower Hawkesbury
Erosion Assessment of the Lower Hawkesbury Estuary
- Erosion Assessment of Shoreline between Wisemans Ferry and Spencer - 8MB
- Project summary sheet - 697kb
Council's foreshore clean-up programs
- 2020 Clean4Shore program - 10MB
- 2019 Clean4Shore program - 8.7MB
- 2018 Clean4Shore program - 4MB
- 2017 Clean4Shore program - 6MB
- 2016 Clean4Shore program - 8.7MB
- 2015 Clean4Shore program - 6.4MB
- 2014 Clean4Shore program - 3MB
- 2012/13 Foreshore clean-up program - 2.2MB
Further information
- Boat Wash - NSW Maritime - 337kb
- Hawkesbury River Boating Map - 5.9MB
- Hawkesbury River recreational fishing guide - NSW Primary Industries - 1MB
- Hawkesbury River recreational location closures – NSW Primary Industries
- NSW Recreational Saltwater Fishing Guide – Fish Size Limits – NSW Primary Industries - 6.4MB
- Kayaking and Canoeing - NSW Maritime - 375kb
- Primefacts of Caulerpa taxifolia - 262kb
- Saltmarsh in Hornsby Council - 244kb
- Saltmarsh in the Hawkesbury - 529kb
- Seagrass Protection - NSW Maritime - 311kb
- Living & Working on a Coastal Riverbank - NSW Primary Industries - 453kb
- Living & Working on an Inland Riverbank - NSW Primary Industries - 453kb