Topic Index

A

Aboriginal

• heritage

Audley

• Audley Weir and fish migration
• Water quality - Pollution Source Inventory
• Fishway

B

Bag limits

• Shellfish

Ballast water

• Possible link to algal blooms, management, symposium
• Report of release, quarantine service guidelines

Basin, The

• About

Bate Bay

• Water quality - Pollution Source Inventory

Biodiversity

• HRCMC Working Group
• Surveys
• Concerns for Port biodiversity
• Tracking and mapping in National Park
• Marine biodiversity in Shiprock Aquatic Reserve
• Watching the Royal and Heathcote recover from fires

Boating

• Recreational boating and the Plan of Management
• Boating activities in the Port
• Plan of Management

Bola Creek

• About

Bonnie Vale

• Boatramp

  • 1995 PHPS President's Report
  • The case for - Water Access Association view
  • NPWS Information paper release


• The state of Bonnie Vale
• Concern at condition of huts

Bundeena

• Contributing runoff
• Sewerage issue
• Road works and effluent into the Port

Bundeena Creek (also Serpentine Creek)

• Wetland
• Water quality - Pollution Source Inventory

Bushcare

• About Bushcare
• Bush regeneration helps clean Port Hacking
• Control of Gorse weed
• Bushcare at Jibbon Beach
• Promotional article
• Implications for the Port

Bushfires

• Regeneration of species
• The aftermath of the 1994 bushfires

C

Cabbage Tree Creek

• Water quality - Pollution Source Inventory
• Historical perspective

Camp Creek

• Colliery and urban runoff
• Results of water quality studies
• Water quality - Pollution Source Inventory

Cawley Creek

• Pollution from Princes Hwy

Cawley Road

• Clean up of rubbish
• Decision on road closure
• Illegal rubbish dumping
• Dumping observed
• Action on rubbish

Coalcliff

• About

Community contract

• About

Community forum

• Details of 1998 forum
• Report on forum proceedings
• Availability of forum presentations

Community perceptions

• About

Coonong Creek

• About

Costan's Point

• About

Curracarong Marine National Park

• About

D

Deeban Spit

• Impact of pumping nippers
• Snippets of history
• More history

Deer

• Problem, impacts, management issues
• Numbers in plague proportions

Deer Park

• About

Dent's Creek

• About

Dolans Bay

• Dolans Bay Marina
• Bay features
• New pontoon
• Water quality - Pollution Source Inventory
• Dolan's Bay - then and now

Dredging

• Plan of Management
• Take away the sand... article from Port Management Plan
• Election candidate perspective
• 1995 PHPS President's Report
• Progress on dredging 1995
• Disruption to dredging, extent of dredging early 1996
• Navigation channel maintenance 1995-96 report, figures
• Disposal of material from 1998 dredging
• Completion of 1999 dredging, results, photo

E

Engadine

• Artificial wetland

  • Announcement of plans to construct wetland
  • Details on wetland, plans for a second wetland
  • Water quality testing results
   
• Creek

Environmental Impact Statements (EIS)

• Cronulla STP

Erosion

• About

F

F6 Freeway

• About

Faecal Coliforms

• Studies' results, sources
• Pollution Source Inventory analysis
• Samples from Bundeena/Maianbar

Fisherman's Bay

• Water quality - Pollution Source Inventory
• Impact of pumping nippers

Fishing

• BYO Bait and intertidal protected areas
• Fishing and bilge water
• Dolans Bay

Fisheries

• Attempts to report illegal activity
• Habitat protection plan
• 1999 Information Day
• Plans and policies

Fishway - Audley

• News on grant application
• Issues, planning

Foreshore issues

• Foreshore access
• Keeping the foreshores green
• Impacts and current state of foreshore

Foreshore development

• Council's Foreshore Building Plan
• Major article - issues, impacts
• PHPS submission to Foreshore Development Code
• Foreshore construction site, photo
• Plan of Management Audit
• Critique of Council's Development Code
• Vandalism by development
• Foreshore survey
• Development Code

Foreshore harvesting

• BYO Bait
• Illegal activity in Marine Protected areas

Funding

• About

Future

• Visions of..

  • Vision 1
  • Vision 2

G

Gardiners Creek

• Urban runoff
• Water quality
• Water quality - Pollution Source Inventory

Gills Creek

• Threats
• Water quality
• Silt

Gorse Weed

• HRCMC targets

Gross Pollutant Traps

• Helensburgh, Landcom
• Camellia Gardens , Royal National Park - Engadine
• Sediment control
• Community suggestion on alternatives
• Gunnamatta Bay

Gunnamatta Bay

• Estuary Management Study
• Gross Pollutant Traps
• Pollution
• Water quality - Pollution Source Inventory

Gymea Bay

• Water quality - Pollution Source Inventory
• Estuary Management Study

H

Hacking River Catchment Management Committee (HRCMC)

• What is HRCMC?
• First meeting
• Overview, representation, legislation, goals,
• Studies database
• Launch of Pollution Source Inventory
• Small project fund
• Polluting the Port - Inventory
• HRCMC Foreshore residents' survey
• 1998 HRCMC Forum
• Working Groups
• Report on 1998 Forum
• Community contract
• Review of Dredging Memorandum of Understanding
• Community attitudes to the environment, HRCMC work plan
• Replacement of HRCMC

Harold Holt Swim Club

• About

Heavy metals

• Water quality studies database article
• What is polluting Port Hacking?

Helensburgh

• Campaign against expansion 1993, status of mediation 1993
• Commission of Inquiry
• History of the Helensburgh expansion plan 'dispute'
• Malcolm Kerr opinion
• 1995 PHPS President's Report
• Potential impact of expansion
  

• Colliery

  • Possible closure, attempts to reduce impact, EPA legal action
  • Miner's family perspective on Colliery
  • Impacts, breaches of licence, history, ownership



• Landcare Group

  • Cawley Road clean up
  • Results of clean up



• Waste Disposal Depot

  • Improvements by Wollongong Council
  • A problem in the Upper Catchment

Herbicides

• About

Heritage

• Impacts from an expansion of Helensburgh
• Port Hacking's Aboriginal Heritage
• Heritage Walk

Holsworthy Airport

• Resident's warning about potential impacts
• Further resident warning about impacts

Housing

• About

Hovercraft

• About

I

Impermeable Surfaces

• About

Incorporation

• About

Incremental Development

• About

Integrated management of Port Hacking

• Plan of Management
• Total Catchment Management
• Implementing and policing regulations - whose responsibility?
• Interest groups overview, map
• Why no integrated approach to managing the Port?
• It can be done, barriers to achieving it, other examples
• Management Plan Audit results
• How many plans does it take?
• 2000 PHPS President's Report

Intertidal invertebrates

• In protected areas
• Protection for invertebrates - NSW Fisheries

J

Jetskis

• see PWCs

Jibbon Beach

• Description, problems
• Local initiative to clean up
• Sediment, nutrients
• Toilets

Junk mail

• About

K

Kangaroo Creek

• Pollution from Highway
• Water quality testing results

Kayaking

• About

Kelly's Creek

• Water quality - Pollution Source Inventory

L

Land use

• Alternatives in Helensburgh area (see point 4)
• HRCMC Working Party

Landscape Development Control Plan

• About

Lawsuits

• About

Leachate

• Studies find leachate is major environmental problem
• From Helensburgh Tip

Litter

• About

Littoral rainforest

• About

M

Maddens Plain

• About

Maianbar

• Seepage from septic tanks
• Nipper pumping
• Sewage runoff
• Vegetated island

Mangroves

• About

Marinas

• About

Marine National Parks

• Curracarong

Memorandum of Understanding for navigation in Port Hacking

• Requirements for effective implementation
• A summary of the Memorandum
• Views of the newly elected Council in 1995
• Framework for 1995 dredging
• What Councillors think - 1998
• Concern over a Councillor's response on MOU
• Little achievement of MOU goals - 1999
• New MOU for 1999 dredging?

Miscelainious

• "Enjoyment for Today, Protection for Tomorrow"

Moorings

• Reference in Plan of Management - 1993
• Plans to install more at Jibbon Beach - 1999
• Discussion of numbers in the Port
• Safety - Jibbon and Gunyah Beaches

N

National Heritage Trust Funding (NHT)

• Urban areas gain little - 1997
• Several projects funded - 1998
• Applications sought

National Parks Association (NPA)

• About

National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS)

• Management of Bonnie Vale
• Deer Management

Nature Conservation Council

• Comment on NHT
• Action called for

Navigation in Port Hacking

• Courtesy lights
• Safety and navigation - residents' survey

Nippers

• Pumping on Maianbar flats and impacts on Fishermans Bay
• Concern over numbers pumped and associated impacts

Noise

• About

North West Arm

• About

Nutrients

• Major source of Port pollution
• Water quality testing results

O

Oil Spills

• Dolans Bay
• Chance in Port Hacking
• Mooring of large vessels in Bate Bay

Organic chemicals

• Pesticides in Dents Creek
• Major source of Port pollution
• Council's control of its herbicide use

Otford

• About

Overhead cables

• Letter to editor - Cables Down Under
• No more overhead cables!

Overview of issues

• HRCMC
• Malcolm Kerr MP
• PHPS 1995 President's Report
• Review of Councillors views
• Main PHPS issues
• Landuse
• Pollutants, Sediment, Biodiversity, Equity and use
• Resident overview
• Water quality - river classification
• Malcolm Kerr view

P

PHPS

• AGM President's Address

  • 1994
  • 1997
  • 1999
  • 2000


• History

• Objectives

  • and issues
  • Principles, what PHPS seeks
  • On usage of the Port, on Management, on framework

Pollution

• Helensburgh expansion proposal
• Total Catchment Management
• Findings of water quality studies database
• Results of study on urban runoff
• Upper catchment
• Pesticides
• Sources of pollution in the Port
• HRCMC Working Group , Reporting pollution problems
• Pollutants in the Hacking
• Gross polluntants
• Colliery , sand mines

Port Hacking history

• in poetry
• Snippets, Deeban, Turriel Point, photos
• Dolans Bay - then and now

Port Hacking Plan of Management

• Need for, history of, issues addressed in
• Context of overlapping jurisdications
• Details of release, aim of Plan
• What Councillors say
• Audit of the Plan
• How many plans does it take? Editorial
• Progress on Audit of Plan
• Letter from Councillor
• 2000 PHPS President's Report

Port Hacking Planning and Advisory Committee (1999 - Port Hacking Management Panel)

• Reactivation - 1994
• Achievements - Plan of Management, extracts from reports
• Dredging issues
• Membership of, critique of effectiveness
• Audit of Management Plan
• Response to audit
• 2000 PHPS President's Report

Putt Putt Regatta

• About

Personal Water Craft (Jetskis etc)

• Report of banning from Bonnie Vale - 1993
• Campaign
• 1994 PHPS President's Report
• New directions for PWC riders - 1995
• Regulation
• Waterways blitz
• Complaints, PHPS action, Waterways response
• Response of PWC industry, PHPS response
• Examples of restrictions
• As a use of the Port
• Resident view, Waterways measures, other complaints, photos
• Danger for swimmers and surfers
• Visitor complaint

Q

R

Recreation

• Uses of the Port
• HRCMC Waterways Working Group
• Equity and recreation
• Swimming club
• Plan of Management Audit

Red Jack's Point

• About

Residential controls

• About

Rivercare

• About

Riverkeeper

• Foreshadowing the appointment
• Resources and work program

Royal National Park

• Damage due to deer
• Managing with TCM
• Fauna recovery after 1994 fires
• Artifical Wetland
• Coastwalk
• Plan of Management

Rubbish dumping

• Cawley Road
• Building waste in Port - resident report

Runoff

• Major source of pollution
• Results of studies into Catchment drains

S

Sand

• Mines

  • About



• Mining

  • Offshore sandmining proposal
  • Malcolm Kerr view on ocean sandmining

Savilles Creek

• About

Seagrasses

• Seagrass ecosystem, species, seagrass beds
• Managing seagrass areas
• Fish and seagrasses in the Port
• Protection

Seaweek

• About

Sediment

• About

Sediment Control

• Building sites
• Environmental Damage from building sites
• Council view, Sediment traps
• Source of sediment in the Port
• Council survey of construction sites
• Impacts of no controls
• Progress by Council
• Building site inspections

Sewerage/Sewage

• Election Candidate view
• Sydney Water improvement projects
• Bundeena/Maianbar sewage system
• Managing waste water in Sutherland Shire
• Major source of pollution in the Port
• Water Cycle Management, Cronulla Sewage Treatment Plant
• Gunnamatta Bay
• Bundeena and Maianbar WaterCycle Study
• Sewage in the Port - sources, pollutants, overflows
• More effluent, Bundeena/Maianbar sewerage
• Scheme for Otford, Stanwell Park/Tops and Coalcliff
• The Price of Sewerage

• From watercraft

  • Harbourwatch, swimmer complaints
  • Resident complaint


• Pumpout facilities

Shiprock

• Feature article, species found, diving, photos
• History snippet

Small projects fund

• About

Soil

• Acid sulphate soils

Stanwell Park/Tops

• About

Stormwater

• Identified as major environmental problem
• Control devices
• Gunnamatta Bay
• From road works, Bundeena
• Piping watercourses
• Upper catchment, Helensburgh
• management plans

Stressed Rivers Program

• About

Surveys

• Foreshore residents' survey
• Community attitudes to the environment - HRCMC

Sutherland Shire Council

• Helensburgh Inquiry
• Membership of HRCMC
• Management of foreshore development
• Camelia Gardens GPT
• Review of Councillor's opinions - 1995/96
• Work on 2nd Engadine GPT
• Dredging, Port Hacking Planning and Advisory Panel
• Lack of integrated approach
• Impacts of Council roadworks
• Management of the foreshore
• Amendment to Local Environment Plan
• Participation in community forum
• Piping of watercourses, Bundeena
• Sediment control
• What Councillors say about the Port - 1998
• Landscape Development Control Plan
• Environmental spending
• A review of promises and action - 1999
• Port Hacking Plan of Management

Sutherland Shire Environment Centre

• About, donating to
• Address at community forum
• Views on river reclassification
• Lobbying of Waterways on moorings issue
• Details of this website project

Swimming

• About

Sydney Coastal Council Group

• Regional Coastal Management Strategy
• Sydney Coastal Zone Survey - 1996

Sydney Water

• Projects benefitting the catchment - 1995
• Managing wastewater in Sutherland Shire

T

Telstra Selloff

• About

Tip Creek

• Results of water quality studies
• Impacts from Helensburgh Tip
• Problems

Tombolo

• About

Tourism

• About

Turriel Point

• About

Trash racks

• Bundeena
• Impact for water quality

Tree cover

• urban development and tree loss
• Foreshore visual survey

Turbidity

• Major environmental problem
• Causes

U

Upper catchment issues

• Brief summary
• water quality
• Colliery, sand mine, Tip, stormwater, deer, bushland

Urban

• Density
• Runoff

V

Values

• Need to protect
• Foreshore Resident's Survey
• Government action well behind community attitudes
• Community attitudes to the environment

Vegetation Cover

• About

W

Waste disposal depot - Helensburgh

• Work done to reduce environmental impact
• Pollution

Watercraft regulation

• What Waterways Authority do
• Improvements reported by resident
• Boating practice in the Port - the way forward

Water cycle management

• Commencement of Bundeena/Maianbar study
• Findings of the study

Waterfall causeway

• About

Water quality

• Major issue in Plan of Management
• In Terms of Reference for Helensburgh Inquiry
• HRCMC Working Group
• Review of Objectives for water quality
• Implications of a river reclassification
• Objection letter on reclassification
• Water Quality Testing Results - 1997

Waterways Authority

• Responsibilities, initiatives
• Regulation of watercraft
• Boating Plan of Management?

Weeds

• Gorse weed - HRCMC work
• Gorse weed - environmental disaster
• As a pollutant
• Descriptions, pictures, control, bushcare work

Wilsons Creek

• About

Wollongong Council

• Helensburgh expansion
• Membership of HRCMC

X

Y

Yowie Bay

• Estuary Management Subcommittee
• Findings of above Committee
• Resident's view on sources of pollution
• Water Quality - Pollution Source Inventory
• A sad case of Port abuse

Z