Porters Creek Floodplain Risk Management Study

The overall objective of this study is to develop a Floodplain Risk Management Study where management issues are assessed, management options are investigated and recommendations are made. Thereafter a Floodplain Risk Management Plan detailing how flood prone land within the study area is to be managed can be completed. The objectives of the Flood Risk Management Study are to:

• Review Councils existing environmental planning policies and instruments including Councils long-term planning strategies for the study area;
• Identify works, measures and restrictions aimed at reducing the social, environmental and economic impacts of flooding and the losses caused by flooding on development and the community, both existing and future, over the full range of potential flood events
• Assess the effectiveness of these works and measures for reducing the effects of flooding on the community and development, both existing and future; ? Consider whether the proposed works and measures might produce adverse effects (environmental, social, economic or worsened flooding) in the floodplain and whether they can be minimised; ? Examine the present flood warning system, community flood awareness and emergency response measures in the context of the NSW State Emergency Service's development and disaster planning requirements; ?* Examine ways in which the creek and floodplain environment may be enhanced by exploring the possibility of a strategy for vegetation planning that may create a valuable corridor of vegetation without having a detrimental effect on flooding, and;
• Identify modifications that are required to current policies in light of the investigations.