text: Warragamba Dam Raising - WaterNSW
  In May 2017, the NSW Government released the Hawkesbury-Nepean Valley Flood Risk Management Strategy – ''
  皇冠代理It is the framework for the government, councils, businesses and communities to work together to reduce and manage flood risk in the Sydney Region's most productive food bowl.
  And, after four years' investigation, it recommends that raising Warragamba Dam to create a flood mitigation zone of around 14 metres is the best option to reduce the risks to life, property and community assets posed by floodwaters from the extensive Warragamba River catchment.
  皇冠代理While a range of other infrastructure and non-infrastructure outcomes are included in the strategy and must be part of the solution for managing ongoing risk, no other mitigation measures can achieve the same risk reduction as the Warragamba Dam Raising Proposal.
  WaterNSW, as owner and operator of the dam, is consulting widely about the effects and benefits of the proposal to inform the environmental assessment, concept design皇冠代理 and, subject to all planning approvals, a business case to assist decision-making in 2020 about whether to proceed with these major flood mitigation works.