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DWE Home > Home > Water Management > Water for the environment > Shoalhaven River environmental flows

Department of Water and Energy

Water for the environment

Shoalhaven River environmental flows

The Department has developed new environmental flow rules for the lower Shoalhaven River that will ensure more water is reserved for river health and better mimic the natural river flow.

Extensive scientific, social, economic and cultural heritage assessments were undertaken to better understand the water needs of the Shoalhaven River ecosystem, including the communities and industries that use and depend on the river.

The Department's work has advanced scientific knowledge of the Shoalhaven River and of the impacts of drought and water transfers on river health in general.

The following publications provide more detail on this work and the new environmental flows rules:

• Shoalhaven Illawarra riparian cover mapping study
  • Shoalhaven Illawarra riparian cover mapping study – Upper Shoalhaven
  • Shoalhaven Illawarra riparian cover mapping study – Shoalhaven Gorge
  • Shoalhaven Illawarra riparian cover mapping study – Shoalhaven Estuary
  • Shoalhaven Illawarra riparian cover mapping study – Reedy Creek
  • Shoalhaven Illawarra riparian cover mapping study – Nerrimunga Creek
  • Shoalhaven Illawarra riparian cover mapping study – Murramarang
  • Shoalhaven Illawarra riparian cover mapping study – Mongarlowe
  • Shoalhaven Illawarra riparian cover mapping study – Minnamurra
  • Shoalhaven Illawarra riparian cover mapping study – Milton-Ulladulla
  • Shoalhaven Illawarra riparian cover mapping study – Wollongong
  • Shoalhaven Illawarra riparian cover mapping study – Macquarie Rivulet
  • Shoalhaven Illawarra riparian cover mapping study – Lower Shoalhaven
  • Shoalhaven Illawarra riparian cover mapping study – Lower Kangaroo
  • Shoalhaven Illawarra riparian cover mapping study – Kangaroo River
  • Shoalhaven Illawarra riparian cover mapping study – Jervis Bay
  • Shoalhaven Illawarra riparian cover mapping study – Gerringong
  • Shoalhaven Illawarra riparian cover mapping study – Corang - Endrick
  • Shoalhaven Illawarra riparian cover mapping study – Bungonia Creek
  • Shoalhaven Illawarra riparian cover mapping study – Broughton Creek
  • Shoalhaven Illawarra riparian cover mapping study – Boro Creek
  • Shoalhaven Illawarra riparian cover mapping study – Mid-Shoalhaven
• Shoalhaven River environmental flows fact sheet
• Shoalhaven River Water Transfer and Environmental Flows Discussion Paper
• Report 1 - Environmental Flows Knowledge Review
• Report 2 - Environmental Flows Investigations
• Map of the Shoalhaven River

More reports will be available to download soon.