Public consultation 1
The first draft Lachlan Regional Water Strategy, which considered water supply, reliability and security in flood and drought, 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 60 stakeholders participated in the engagement program and 66 formal submissions were received. Key themes that emerged during this consultation include climate and modelling, new and existing water infrastructure, town water security and water-related amenities, Aboriginal water rights and connection to Country, entitlement reliability and risk management, environmental health and connectivity, and groundwater.
Submissions
We are sharing collected community and stakeholder submissions for the region along with cultural and general submissions.
- Submission 1 (PDF 489.4 KB)
- Submission 2 (PDF 196.8 KB)
- Submission 3 Gordon Turner (PDF 374.4 KB)
- Submission 4 (PDF 387.0 KB)
- Submission 6 Down The Track (PDF 275.0 KB)
- Submission 7 Hugh McLean (PDF 16.0 KB)
- Submission 8 Ed Vagg (PDF 1.2 MB)
- Submission 9 (PDF 16.0 KB)
- Submission 10 (PDF 13.3 KB)
- Submission 11 (PDF 18.7 MB)
- Submission 12 Healthy Rivers Dubbo (PDF 81.5 KB)
- Submission 13 Plains Water Ltd (PDF 159.6 KB)
- Submission 14 Plains Water Ltd (PDF 2.3 MB)
- Submission 16 Environmentally Concerned Citizens of Orange (PDF 42.5 KB)
- Submission 17 NSW Bird Atlassers (PDF 21.7 KB)
- Submission 18 (PDF 9.8 MB)
- Submission 19 (PDF 5.3 MB)
- Submission 20 National Parks Association of NSW (PDF 84.6 KB)
- Submission 21 Central NSW Joint Organisation (PDF 2.8 MB)
- Submission 22 NSW Minerals Council (PDF 184.5 KB)
- Submission 23 Nature Conservation Council (PDF 249.4 KB)
- Submission 24 Libby Skipworth (PDF 3.5 MB)
- Submission 25 Lachlan Valley Water Inc (PDF 130.0 KB)
- Submission 26 (PDF 338.8 KB)
- Submission 27 Lakes Alive Progress Association Inc (PDF 5.3 MB)
- Submission 28 (PDF 298.5 KB)
- Submission 29 (PDF 15.1 KB)
- Submission 30 Arthur Hall (PDF 16.4 KB)
- Submission 31 (PDF 781.7 KB)
- Submission 32 (PDF 346.7 KB)
- Submission 33 Cowra Shire Council (PDF 728.2 KB)
- Submission 34 CEWO (PDF 337.8 KB)
- Submission 36 Craig Brian Peter Coyle (PDF 13.1 KB)
- Submission 37 Hay Shire Council (PDF 810.3 KB)
- Submission 38 (PDF 67.7 KB)
- Submission 39 NSW Farmers Association (PDF 85.6 KB)
- Submission 40 Central West Environmental Council (PDF 139.6 KB)
- Submission 41 Lachlan Shire Council (PDF 460.0 KB)
- Submission 42 Peta Eames (PDF 377.4 KB)
- Submission 43 (PDF 324.6 KB)
- Submission 44 Ed Vagg (PDF 14.6 KB)
- Submission 45 Gordon Refshauge (PDF 476.6 KB)
- Submission 46 Adam Kerezsy (PDF 2.3 MB)
- Submission 47 Centre for Applied Water Science (PDF 291.3 KB)
- Submission 48 Regional Growth NSW Development Corporation (PDF 290.9 KB)
- Submission 49 Inland Rivers Network (PDF 1.8 MB)
- Submission 50 Carrathool Shire Council (PDF 1.4 MB)
- Submission 51 (PDF 217.7 KB)
- Submission 53 MLDRIN (PDF 170.4 KB)
- Submission 54 Andrew Francis (PDF 2.6 MB)
- Submission 55 Lachlan Shire Council (PDF 182.3 KB)
- Submission 56 Belubula Headwaters Protection Group (PDF 1000.8 KB)
- Submission 57 EES (PDF 416.7 KB)
Public consultation 2
The draft Lachlan Regional Water Strategy, including a shortlist of proposed options to address regional challenges, was released for public exhibition from Wednesday 5 October until Friday 18 November 2022.
The second draft was a set of two documents:
Due to the extensive and ongoing flooding situation impacting communities across the Lachlan region at the time, a decision was made, in consultation with key stakeholders, to re-exhibit the draft Lachlan Regional Water Strategy in 2023.
What we heard
Any submissions that were made between Wednesday 5 October and Friday 18 November 2022 were reviewed, and a summary of feedback received so far has been published below.
All submissions will be further analysed after the public exhibition process in 2023, and a further What we heard report will be produced at that time to summarise the feedback received as part of that exhibition and respond to the feedback received during both exhibitions.
Submissions
We are sharing collected community and stakeholder submissions we received between Wednesday 5 October and Friday 18 November 2022. We will continue to collect feedback and submissions when we re-exhibit the draft Lachlan Regional Water Strategy in 2023.
- Submission 1 Hovells Creek Landcare Group.pdf (PDF 319.2 KB)
- Submission 2 (PDF 74.0 KB)
- Submission 3 Environmentally Concerned Citizens of Orange (PDF 116.6 KB)
- Submission 4 Inland Rivers Network (PDF 95.0 KB)
- Submission 5 (PDF 228.0 KB)
- Submission 6 Nature Conservation Council (PDF 190.6 KB)
- Submission 7 Orange and Region Water Security Association Inc (PDF 153.3 KB)
- Submission 8 (PDF 93.3 KB)
- Submission 9 Cadia District Protection Group (PDF 51.9 KB)
- Submission 10 (PDF 93.9 KB)
- Submission 11 (PDF 106.2 KB)