Warragamba in the news
A great photo opportunity from visiting media
Warragamba Dam gates opened at 7pm on Friday 2nd March to hundreds of spectators and media crews. This photo is from the Sydney Morning Herald website where you can watch a video of the event and listen to the noise of the water thundering into the pond at the bottom of the 100 metre drop. The pond acts as an energy dissipater, slowing the water before it flows down the Warragamba River to join the Hawkesbury-Nepean system.
The lookout at Eighteenth Street was packed with people although some of them complained about the view being obscured by trees. The main drum gate holding back Warragamba Dam was last opened in August 1998.
Development in Silverdale Road and St Helliers Road
Several residents are concerned about this development. It is good to have more families moving into the area but an additional 140 homes puts extra stresses on the existing facilities and roads. The following information has been supplied by Joanne Down, Communications Unit Team Leader at Wollondilly Shire CouncilRezoning of land at 2044-2054 Silverdale [...]
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Macarthur Mayors against second airport
The mayors of Campbelltown, Camden and Wollondilly councils have joined forces in opposition to any proposal by the Federal Government for a second airport in the Macarthur region. “There is no room for compromise on the issue of a second airport in south west or western Sydney, and we will fight this issue wholeheartedly to the [...]
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9. March 2012
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