Final Macquarie-Castlereagh Regional Water Strategy
The Macquarie-Castlereagh Regional Water Strategy was adopted in October 2023.
Public consultation 1
The first draft Macquarie-Castlereagh Regional Water Strategy 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 90 stakeholders participated in the engagement program and 56 formal submissions were received. Key themes that emerged during this consultation include water security, groundwater, climate and modelling, Aboriginal knowledge and cultural heritage, entitlement reliability and risk management, new and existing infrastructure, and environmental and ecosystem health.
Submissions
We are sharing collected community and stakeholder submissions for the region along with cultural and general submissions.
- submission 1 David Allen (PDF 6.1 MB)
- submission 2 (PDF 5.8 MB)
- submission 3 (PDF 34.9 KB)
- submission 4 (PDF 16.9 KB)
- submission 5 (PDF 762.1 KB)
- submission 6 Dubbo Environment Group (PDF 40.0 KB)
- submission 7 Healthy Rivers Dubbo (PDF 95.8 KB)
- submission 8 (PDF 586.0 KB)
- submission 9 (PDF 392.6 KB)
- submission 10 Trangie Local Aboriginal Land Council (PDF 38.5 KB)
- submission 11 Healthy Rivers Dubbo (PDF 158.6 KB)
- submission 12 Inland Rivers Network (PDF 1.7 MB)
- submission 13 Mudgee District Environment Group (PDF 30.7 KB)
- submission 14 Wayne Diemar (PDF 22.5 KB)
- submission 15 (PDF 21.8 KB)
- submission 16 Mid-Western Regional Council (PDF 196.4 KB)
- submission 17 Central West Environment Council (PDF 134.1 KB)
- submission 18 Garry Hall (PDF 334.5 KB)
- submission 19 (PDF 46.3 KB)
- submission 20 (PDF 20.1 KB)
- submission 21 (PDF 42.4 KB)
- submission 22 (PDF 3.4 MB)
- submission 23 Winburndale Waters Conservation Group (PDF 386.0 KB)
- submission 24 Nature Conservation Council (PDF 244.4 KB)
- submission 25 Anonymous (PDF 46.8 KB)
- submission 26 NSW Minerals Council (PDF 196.1 KB)
- submission 27 Central NSW Joint Organisation (PDF 767.4 KB)
- submission 28 Central NSW Joint Organisation (PDF 435.0 KB)
- submission 29 Central NSW Joint Organisation (PDF 97.3 KB)
- submission 30 Orange City Council (PDF 352.6 KB)
- submission 31 (PDF 44.3 KB)
- submission 32 National Parks Association of NSW (PDF 94.4 KB)
- submission 33 (PDF 5.4 MB)
- submission 34 Warrumbungle Shire Council (PDF 48.4 KB)
- submission 35 Michael Willot (PDF 378.1 KB)
- submission 36 (PDF 152.7 KB)
- submission 37 Coonamble Shire Council (PDF 385.9 KB)
- submission 38 Environmentally Concerned Citizens of Orange (PDF 30.8 KB)
- submission 39 (PDF 24.8 KB)
- submission 40 Dugald Bucknell (PDF 396.6 KB)
- submission 41 Denis Marsh (PDF 274.1 KB)
- submission 42 (PDF 638.5 KB)
- submission 43 Dubbo Regional Council (PDF 852.0 KB)
- submission 44 (PDF 613.9 KB)
- submission 45 (PDF 108.5 KB)
- submission 46 NSW Irrigators Council (PDF 342.6 KB)
- submission 47 Craig Bryan Peter Coyle (PDF 40.3 KB)
- submission 48 Cobar Shire Council (PDF 84.6 KB)
- submission 49 Commonwealth Environmental Water Office (PDF 356.3 KB)
- submission 50 (PDF 64.0 KB)
- submission 51 (PDF 31.6 KB)
- submission 52 Central NSW Joint Organisation (PDF 157.3 KB)
- submission 53 Warren Shire Council (PDF 25.3 KB)
- submission 54 (PDF 3.4 MB)
- submission 55 NSW Environmental Water, DPIE Biodiversity, Conservation & Science (PDF 114.1 KB)
- submission 56 Macquarie River Food and Fibre (PDF 157.0 KB)
Public consultation 2
After incorporating the feedback from the community and doing further analysis, the second draft Macquarie-Castlereagh Regional Water Strategy was on a second public exhibition from 5 October to 18 November 2022.
The second draft strategy was a set of two documents:
What we heard
In the second round of the public exhibition of Macquarie-Castlereagh Regional Water Strategy, 137 stakeholders participated, and we received 64 formal submissions.
In response to this feedback we have published two additional technical documents and will undertake further targeted discussions before releasing the final Macquarie-Castlereagh Regional Water Strategy in 2023.
Submissions
We are sharing collected community and stakeholder submissions for the region along with cultural and general submissions.
- Submission 1 Glenn Floyd (PDF 108.5 KB)
- Submission 2 (PDF 71.5 KB)
- Submission 3 (PDF 107.2 KB)
- Submission 4 Macquarie Effluent Creeks Association (PDF 9.3 MB)
- Submission 5 Environmentally Concerned Citizens of Orange (PDF 462.2 KB)
- Submission 6 Australian Floodplains Association (PDF 346.5 KB)
- Submission 7 (PDF 2.1 MB)
- Submission 8 Lower Bogan Water Users Association (PDF 71.4 KB)
- Submission 9 Bogan Shire Council (PDF 971.7 KB)
- Submission 10 (PDF 2.6 MB)
- Submission 11 Summer Hill Creekcare (PDF 111.2 KB)
- Submission 12 (PDF 70.4 KB)
- Submission 13 Country Press NSW Inc (PDF 203.7 KB)
- Submission 14 (PDF 120.3 KB)
- Submission 15 Healthy Rivers Dubbo (PDF 553.4 KB)
- Submission 16 (PDF 110.4 KB)
- Submission 17 Inland Rivers Network (PDF 1.1 MB)
- Submission 18 Nature Conservation Council (PDF 189.5 KB)
- Submission 19 (PDF 120.5 KB)
- Submission 20 Central West Environment Council (PDF 201.5 KB)
- Submission 21 Central NSW Joint Organisation (PDF 2.3 MB)
- Submission 22 Orange Field Naturalist and Conservation Society Inc (PDF 142.7 KB)
- Submission 23 Orange City Council (PDF 1.4 MB)
- Submission 24 Central Tablelands Water (PDF 182.3 KB)
- Submission 25 (PDF 161.3 KB)
- Submission 26 (PDF 1.7 MB)
- Submission 27 (PDF 1.8 MB)
- Submission 28 Orange and Region Water Security Association Inc (PDF 143.4 KB)
- Submission 29 Anne Reeves (PDF 141.4 KB)
- Submission 30 (PDF 28.3 KB)
- Submission 31 (PDF 2.8 MB)
- Submission 32 (PDF 2.7 MB)
- Submission 33 Simon Cant (PDF 10.2 MB)
- Submission 34 PFT Agriculture (PDF 503.6 KB)
- Submission 35 Denis Marsh (PDF 2.2 MB)
- Submission 36 (PDF 91.8 KB)
- Submission 37 (PDF 1.6 MB)
- Submission 38 Quambone Pastoral Co. Pty Ltd (PDF 60.5 KB)
- Submission 39 Macquarie Marshes Environmental Landholders Association (PDF 592.4 KB)
- Submission 40 (PDF 89.1 KB)
- Submission 41 Bathurst Regional Council (PDF 776.0 KB)
- Submission 42 Oberon Council (PDF 321.0 KB)
- Submission 43 Alandale Produce (PDF 87.4 KB)
- Submission 44 (PDF 137.3 KB)
- Submission 45 Commonwealth Environmental Water Office (PDF 3.7 MB)
- Submission 46 HE Kater and Son Pastoral Company Pty Ltd (PDF 305.2 KB)
- Submission 47 Macquarie River Food and Fibre (PDF 182.2 KB)
- Submission 48 (PDF 60.3 KB)
- Submission 49 NSW Farmers (PDF 166.1 KB)
- Submission 50 Jeff Pratley (PDF 64.9 KB)
- Submission 51 Jim and Abigail McLaughlin (PDF 46.1 KB)
- Submission 52 (PDF 35.5 KB)
- Submission 53 Darren and Kim Stokes (PDF 92.2 KB)
- Submission 54 (PDF 80.2 KB)
- Submission 55 (PDF 333.0 KB)
- Submission 56 (PDF 110.8 KB)
- Submission 57 (PDF 115.3 KB)
- Submission 58 Wellagalong Pastoral Company (PDF 611.7 KB)
- Submission 59 Greening Bathurst (PDF 76.1 KB)
- Submission 60 Bathurst Branch NSW Farmers Association (PDF 97.4 KB)
- Submission 61 (PDF 118.1 KB)
- Submission 62 (PDF 1.3 MB)
- Submission 63 Winburndale Waters Conservation Group (PDF 8.9 MB)
- Submission 64 Cobar Shire Council (PDF 531.0 KB)