Australia, NSW, WaterNSW, Guideline for Development Adjacent to the Upper Canal and Warragamba Pipelines

About WaterNSW

WaterNSW is the State-owned corporation responsible for protecting water quality and managing bulk water supply, including management of the Upper Canal and Warragamba Pipelines critical water supply infrastructure. Protection and maintenance of this infrastructure
is essential to ensure the supply of drinking water to people in Greater Sydney and surrounding regions.

The Water NSW Act 2014 (the Act) and associated Water NSW Regulation 2020 include controls, restrictions and penalties designed to protect the water supply infrastructure and drinking water quality from pollution, damage, unauthorised entry or other unauthorised activities.

– WaterNSW Corridors
The Upper Canal and Warragamba Pipelines infrastructure and their associated corridors (the Corridors) are located in south west and western Sydney , and are owned and managed by WaterNSW. The corridors are classified as ‘Controlled Areas’ under the Act.
To find out more about the Greater Sydney Water Supply network, visit WaterNSW’s website and view the interactive map. Locate our major dams and reservoirs, water supply weirs and see the boundaries for the drinking water catchment, Special Areas and Controlled Areas. To
assist authorities and applicants with identifying the water supply infrastructure boundaries, GIS shape-files of the Corridors are available on request.

Upper Canal
• The Upper Canal begins at Pheasants Nest Weir on the Nepean River and transfers water 64 kilometres from the Upper Nepean Dams to the Prospect water filtration plant.
The Canal Corridor traverses the Wollondilly, Campbelltown, Camden, Liverpool and Fairfield local government areas (LGAs).
• The Upper Canal Corridor should be referred to consistently throughout any documents (in the text as well as all figures and tables) as the ‘WaterNSW Upper Canal’.

Warragamba Pipelines
• The Warragamba Pipelines transfer water from Warragamba Dam to the Prospect water filtration plant traversing the Wollondilly, Penrith, Fairfield and Blacktown LGAs.
• The Warragamba Pipelines Corridor should consistently be referred to throughout documents (in the text as well as all figures etc) as the ‘Warragamba to Prospect Water Supply Pipelines’.