Brisbane Water Plan of Management - Gosford City Council - NSW ...

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INTRODUCTION
In the early 1990's increasing development pressures and use of Brisbane Water reached a
point where the community became concerned over the apparent deterioration of the estuary
and considered that Brisbane Water should be better managed. Approaches were made to the
State Government by community organisations and as a result, the State Government
approached Council to determine if it would be interested in preparing a Plan of Management
for Brisbane Water.
The Council initially formed a committee of interested persons to prepare a brief for preparation
of a Management Plan for Brisbane Water. This Steering Committee reported to the Council
that it considered that a committee should be established to prepare a Stage 1 Report on the
management of Brisbane Water.
At the same time, Council had requested the State Government to establish a Catchment
Management Committee within its area to include the catchment of Brisbane Water.
The Government was in the process of establishing a number of catchment management
committees in the populated coastal areas of NSW and the Gosford area was to be one of these
committees. Therefore, the Council in formulating a method of preparing the Brisbane Water
Plan of Management resolved to prepare the work for an initial stage in which it was not to
become involved in matters which were properly the business or concerns of a catchment
management committee. Thus, the stage 1 work of the Brisbane Water Plan of Management
was to relate to the water areas where the primary concern was not the runoff from the
catchment areas and where the matters proposed would not impact on the work of a catchment
management committee in any negative sense.
It was in this context that the Brisbane Water Plan of Management Committee was formed,
however, in its early meetings it discussed the factor that many of its actions and much of its
work would be controlled in the future by matters that occurred within the catchment and so the
committee resolved to name itself the Brisbane Water Plan of Management and Catchment
Management Stage 1 Committee.
Brisbane Water Plan of Management - July 1995
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