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Estuary and Entrance Management
Project Description and Objective The objective of the Estuary Management Project is to maintain a healthy, attractive, and sustainable lake that is an asset to the Lake Conjola Community. The Project has been ongoing since the late 1990's. The existing INTERIM Entrance Management Policy 2013 has failed because it is effectively a continuation of the same reactive entrance management approach used by Council for over 20 years and is responsible for present day lake conditions - despite being advised by PBP1999 that it was ineffective. The policy is INTERIM because it has not been approved by the community despite Council claims to the contrary. The Conjola Community Association have on several occasions met with Council and tabled a report proposing changes, to date Council have not been willing to progress the matter. Project Team/Working Group Contacts Dirk Treloar, Robyn Kerves, Mike Brungs, Bill Hackett External Support Shoalhaven City Council : Kelie Clarke, Alasdair Stratton Current Status - Nov 2018 - The CCB have met with Council several times and tabled a report proposing changes to finalise the INTERIM Entrance Management Policy 2013 and Estuary Management Plan 2013. Click here for a copy of the proposal (1.1Mb PDF Document) - Dec 2018 - Meeting with Council, Shelley Hancock to table CCA proposal to review IEMP - Feb 2019 - Workshop to kick off Review of the Interim Entrance Mgt Policy 2013 (IEMP) - Feb-Apr 19 - Motions raised by Councillor White at various Council Meetings - Apr 2019 - Community Funded Water Testing - click here for a summary of the results - May 2019 - Statement by MInister Shelley Hancock in NSW Parliament - 7-11 Jun 2019 NSW Crown Lands issue conditional licence to open entrance - 13 Jun 2019 - Entrance works commence - mid-spit - 29 Jun 2019 - Water level has dropped from 0.93m to 0.37m - Mid Aug 2019 - Lake entrance closed to the ocean - Dec 2019 - Council approved opening but agencies stopped the works at the point when plant and equipment had been mobilised and were at Cunjurong Point - 27 Jan 2020 - Council approved a significant proposal for an open managed entrance following the devastating bushfires. Information on the proposal has been created on a separate page - click here Minutes/Record of Meetings 18 Dec 2018 : Table with Council the CCA proposal for review of Entrance Mgt Policy 06 Feb 2019 : Notes of Workshop - Kickoff Review of the IEMP Project Documents (click on document name below to view/download a copy of the document) - 1985 Estuarine Inventory of NSW (Fisheries) (3.2Mb) - 1999 Patterson and Britton Lake Conjola Study (6Mb) - 1999 PBP - Attachment17 Entrance Scour and Opening Protocol (4Mb) - 2001 Council Newsletter - WHAT SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED with the Entrance (8Mb) - 2003 Manly Hydraulics : Lake Conjola Entrance Mgt Plan (3.6Mb) - 2003 Manly Hydraulics : Dredging Works REF - MHL1161 (3.5Mb) - 2003 M2 DST Paper - Simplified Science (256Kb) - 2005 Biodiversity Assessment along Bateman Coast (5Mb) - 2007 NSW DPI : Primefact 629 - Seagrasses (0.7Mb) - 2007 Lake Conjola Flood Study - BMT WBM (16.1Mb) - 2010 State of the Catchments Estuaries & Coast Lakes : OEH (link to OEH - 0.2Mb) - 2013 Conjola Floodplain Risk Mgt & Study Plan (link to Council website - 20Mb) - 2013 Conjola Interim Entrance Mgt Policy (IEMP) (0.6Mb) - 2013 Conjola IEMP Appendix A (inc. entrance open %) (5Mb) - 2015 Conjola Estuary Mgt Plan Review (link to Council website) - 2017 Conjola District Sewerage Scheme Groundwater Monitoring Rept (10Mb) - 2018 Proposal to include Channel Optimisation and Entrance Mgt Works in EMP (1.1Mb) - 2019 CCA Presentation to 6 Feb Workshop to review Entrance Mgt Policy 2013 (1.68Mb) - 2019 CCA Submission of "Threats & Risks" in support of opening the entrance (0.5Mb) - 2019 CCA Lake Conjola : Chronology of Entrance Management (0.2Mb) - 2019 Jun : REF to support application to open the Lake - SCC (8.0Mb) |
