Byrrill Creek proposed dam area photos

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About Byrrill Creek proposed dam area photos

This group is for images of the proposed Byrrill Creek dam. The group opposing the dam has Facebook page The Battle for Byrrill Creek (http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Battle-for-Byrrill-Creek/169285973088374), please go and like this if you are opposed.

We would like images you are prepared to make available to the fighting group, so please indicate if you are willing to let the group use your photos in advertising, web sites etc. and include some sort of contact details - a public webmail is fine so long as you check it regularly.


The Byrrill Creek area has been identified as being a High Conservation Value area. It has been identified as having high levels of bio-diversity and of rare and endangered plants and animals. It is an important wildlife corridor between two World Heritage Listed National Parks and two other National Parks - four in total.

The Byrrill Creek catchment is part of a larger sacred Aboriginal site and has many significant cultural heritage sites which are of importance to the Aboriginal community. The Tweed Shire Council has recently voted to build a dam on a significant portion of this site.

Their decision flys in the face of all recommendations from their own Tweed Council Water Staff, to the Office of Water, National Parks & the NSW State legislation, and Federal Government legislation on endangered species.

They have ignored calls to follow the global trend towards effective water practices (storm and rain water harvesting, water recycling, water use minimisation).

Link to the Tweed Shire Councils Tweed Link showing the position of the proposed dam wall - this is (so far as I can work out) just upstream from the bridge at the entry to the Mt Waning Rainforest
www.tweed.nsw.gov.au/LinkWeb/pdfs/Tweed_Link_687_web.pdf

And the following is from the TSC's OWN Riparian Management plan for the area in 2006 - how things change!

"The Byrrill Creek subcatchment, located in the upper reaches of the Tweed River catchment, includes Byrrill Creek and its tributaries Cedar Creek, Cabbage Creek and Kunghurloo Creek.

The area has significant environmental, landscape, scientific, social and cultural values. Much of the area adjoins National Park and State Conservation Area. Recent reports have documented the high conservation significance of the area. A large proportion of the subcatchment is vegetated with high diversity of flora and fauna species.

The area has the highest priority within the Upper Tweed for riparian restoration works due to high conservation ecosystem values, high recovery potential streams and contribution to town water supply.
Weed invasion is the greatest threat to the vegetation communities in the Byrrill Creek subcatchment. Small-leaved Privet, Camphor Laurel and Cat’s Claw Creeper are the most significant weeds in the area.

The creekbank and bed condition is generally good. Water quality testing has shown that Byrrill Creek is among sites with the highest water quality in the Tweed catchment."