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	Nepean Dam
		Both the dam itself and the tourist's picnic and lookout areas are on a more modest scale than the other dams, but the Nepean has a special quality of its own which makes it as an interesting place to visit, or to take the family.
		The Nepean is the most easily accessible of the dams, being just a kilometre or so off the freeway, and a few kilometres from Bargo.
		Water flows down river to a weir at Pheasant's Nest where it is diverted through the Nepean Tunnel 4 1/2 miles to the Cataract River at Broughton's Pass weir, thence 2 miles through the Cataract Tunnel to the Upper Canal.
	www.stonequarry.com.au /nature/nepean_dam.html (920 words)

	THE DISCOVERY OF THE NEPEAN RIVER
		The discovery of the Nepean River in 1789 by Captain Tench was of great significance in the agricultural history of New South Wales, because the alluvial flats surrounding it proved to be very fertile and productive.
		The Nepean River flowed along the foothills of the Blue Mountains, commonly called by that name from the early days of settlement, and its connexion with the Hawkesbury River was not known until some time later.
		The distance of the part of the river which we first hit upon from the sea coast, is about 39 miles, in a direct line, almost due west.
	www.angelfire.com /country/AustralianHistory/nepean.htm (693 words)

	Western Sydney Libraries & Local Studies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The story of the river highways in Western Sydney is a significant facet of the overall history of transportation for the region.
		The Liverpool area itself is bounded on the east and the west by the alluvial soils of the Georges and Nepean Rivers.
		The land at the head of the river was the centre of settlement and as the township expanded many farms were established along the river banks.
	www.westernsydneylibraries.nsw.gov.au /transport/river.html (1988 words)

	Nepean River -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Nepean River is a river in the coastal region of (An Australian state in southeastern Australia) New South Wales, (A nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony) Australia.
		The headwaters of the Nepean River rise near (United States basketball guard (born in 1938)) Robertson, about 100 kilometers south of (The largest Australian city located in southeastern Australia on the Tasman Sea; state capital of New South Wales; Australia's chief port) Sydney and about 15 kilometers from the coast.
		The river flows north in an unpopulated water catchment area into Nepean Dam, which supplies water for (The largest Australian city located in southeastern Australia on the Tasman Sea; state capital of New South Wales; Australia's chief port) Sydney.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/n/ne/nepean_river.htm (248 words)

	nepeanactiongroup
		In the mid 90's the Cataract River flow totally disappeared into the cracking in the river bed to a depth of some 500m into the mine workings and methane and ethane gasses were expelled from the ground measuring up to 20 litres per second in some areas.
		John Macarthur Stanham of Camden Park spoke on behalf of Nepean irrigators, who are angry both at the prospect of loss of river flow as water seeps down the cracks made by mine subsidence, and at the pollution of their water supply by upwelling groundwater and methane and other gases.
		The Nepean is Sydney’s most important waterway, and NAG activists find it hard to believe that the NSW Government would give BHP Billiton permission to mine beneath it, given the tragic example of the permanent fracturing in the other rivers.
	groups.msn.com /nepeanactiongroup (1290 words)

	Hawkesbury River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Hawkesbury River is one of the major rivers of the coastal region of New South Wales, Australia.
		The Hawkesbury River and its tributaries virtually encircle the metropolitan region of Sydney.
		The Colo River and the Macdonald River are major tributaries of the Hawkesbury.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hawkesbury_River (295 words)

	DIALOG Dissertation Abstracts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Results were compared with those of similar studies in rivers and lakes to characterise the similarities and differences in the structure and grazing function of river and lake zooplankton communities.
		Despite the marked temporal variation, the time-averaged bimodal shape of the density-size distributions of the river zooplankton community was similar to that of lake communities.
		Overall, the characteristic features of the structure and grazing function of the river zooplankton community seems to be attributable to the absence (or very low abundance) of large planktonic crustaceans, notably Daphnia in the river.
	www.aslo.org /phd/dialog/1998January-16.html (410 words)

	NSW SoE 1995 - Catchment Case Studies - Hawkesbury-Nepean Catchment
		The Hawkesbury-Nepean River catchment is an important natural asset, providing valuable environmental and economic benefits to the Sydney region, and encompassing approximately 22,000 square kilometres of the Sydney basin.
		The river provides potable and non-potable water to Sydney's population; sand and gravel extraction; waste water disposal; commercial fishing; recreation; and a habitat for aquatic flora and fauna.
		The river is already the main recreational water resource for Sydney's western suburbs, and plans to almost double the population in the catchment will intensify the conflicts in uses of the river.
	www.epa.nsw.gov.au /soe/95/9_1.htm (3592 words)

	Peter Garrett : Hawkesbury-Nepean River System
		From the late 1990s, when the Healthy Rivers Commission completed its investigation into the health of the Hawkesbury-Nepean river system, the New South Wales government has been active in both securing Sydney’s water supply and improving the health of the river.
		The foundation is committed to political bipartisanship, recognising that the challenge of healing the river and its catchment requires a vision and collective concerted effort beyond the time frame of day-to-day partisan politics, which is all that this motion is about.
		So it is a bit rich for the member for Macquarie and the member for Lindsay to blame solely the New South Wales government when bureaucrats from the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry and the Department of the Environment and Heritage have shown that there are a number of joint initiatives underway.
	www.petergarrett.com.au /c.asp?id=223 (743 words)

	Elanora Heights Primary School - Information - Hawkes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		It is the Nepean River until the Grose River joins it and then it becomes the Hawkesbury - different explorers named the parts of the river as they found them not realising that the Nepean and the Hawkesbury (and the MacDonald) were all the same river.
		Education of the people is being driven by their unhappiness when the river is badly affected by the way we abuse the land on either side of the river.
		The river receives what is left after we dam a part of it and other small creeks and minor rivers draining from the Blue Mountains and the high land to the south of Sydney.
	www.elanorahts-p.schools.nsw.edu.au /zipweb/hawkes.html (1869 words)

	Nepean River under threat from BHP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		BHP has proposed to start longwall mining under the Nepean River in 2006 and have applied for approval for the 'first workings' of the Nepean longwalls, that is, access roads to the area.
		She is concerned that longwall mining under the Nepean River could lead to a massive loss of water through cracks as happened at the Cataract and that water will have to be sourced from Sydney's supply to maintain the environmental flow.
		Sharon Swadling, another resident living on the Nepean says she is amazed that BHP can continue with longwall mining despite the fact that it has the potential to have such devastating consequences.
	journalism.uts.edu.au /miningoz_2004/nepeanvalley/page2.htm (1852 words)

	Nepean River Holiday Village
		Nepean River Holiday Village is well located midway between the Three Sisters at Katoomba and Circular Quay in Sydney.
		Nepean River Holiday Village is situated at the foot of the Blue Mountains and is easily accessible to Sydney and its city precincts by road and rail.
		The Nepean River offers beautiful riverbank walks, water sports and boat cruises.
	www.hvgroup.com.au /HVnepean-river/home/index.html (110 words)

	river
		These include a river that people can swim in safely; a river where nutrient levels in the mainstream do not adversely affect water quality; improved knowledge about the effects on river ecology of substances present in sewage; and, increased efforts to reduce the total load of toxic substances discharged to the river.
		In the 1990's during dry weather, raw sewage from the Georges River catchment was treated by either Glenfield or Liverpool STPs, and then transferred to a trunk sewer for discharge at Malabar Ocean Outfall.
		One of the major issues facing Sydney Water in the Georges River catchment is the increase in sewage volumes caused by population growth.
	www.sydney.foe.org.au /water/river.html (2590 words)

	Hawkesbury-Nepean River System Water Quality - 25/11/1997 - QWN - NSW Parliament
		It puts the state of the river into a context outlining the achievements made to reduce pollution and the current plans of the Government to progress other improvements, such as the extension of the $60 million stormwater improvement program.
		The river is suffering from various forms of pollution, such as urban runoff, stormwater, the impact of extractive and agricultural industries, and sewage pollution.
		In response, the recommendations deal with the impacts of urban development, improving water and river flow, establishing local government environmental management plans to protect the river, achieving sustainable agriculture, in which my colleague the Minister for Agriculture is very interested, addressing the impacts of extractive industries and establishing green buffers on river banks.
	www.parliament.nsw.gov.au /prod/PARLMENT/hansArt.nsf/V3Key/LA19971125013 (850 words)

	Glenbrook Creek - Glenbrook Causeway to Nepean River
		The river at the put in is flat and placid, but quickly steepens as the gorge narrows and the river drops off the escarpment.
		Shortly after, where the river runs hard against the cliffs on river left a gnarly drop called ‘The Sphincter’ which consists of a newly formed sieve where most of the river flows underneath a large rock.
		Approximately 200m from the southern end of River Road, there is a bitumen parking area on the Nepean River side of the road.
	www.adventurepro.com.au /paddleaustralia/pa.cgi?action=details&id=GLBR2 (680 words)

	your wedding - getting married in the nepean district (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Rivers, lakes and valleys - they can all be found in the Penrith region which is known for its picturesque scenery around the Penrith Lakes, the Nepean River and Warragamba Dam.
		Tench Reserve along the Nepean is another popular spot for weddings and for photo sessions, with photographers regularly using the reserve as their favourite location.
		The reserve looks across the river to the Blue Mountains and is ideal for a large wedding ceremony.
	www.yourwedding.com.au /nepean.html (1036 words)

	Supply Systems > Hawkesbury-Nepean River & Tributaries > Summary of Results
		This section of the Nepean River begins below where it meets the Cordeaux River, which carries flows from the Cordeaux, Avon and Nepean dams in the Upper Nepean.
		The Cataract River joins the Nepean River approximately 15 km downstream of Maldon.
		At West Camden, water quality was influenced by discharges from West Camden Sewage Treatment Plant, via Matahil Creek, as well as by the township of Camden and the new development areas within the Narellan Creek catchment.
	www.sca.nsw.gov.au /awqr/ss-hawkes-results-unepean-p101.html (296 words)

	Amazon.com: "Nepean River": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Simmons B. and Cheng D. "Rate and Pathway of Phosphorus Assimilation in the Nepean River at Camden, New South Wales".
		River has Recorded the Story, Living with the Hawkesbury River, Sydney, NSW, Australia B. Simmons and J. Scott The Hawkesbury Nepean River system (the Hawkesbury)...
		They crossed the Nepean River at Emu Plains, and ascending the first range of mountains, were entangled among gullies and deep ravines for a considerable...
	amazon.com /phrase/Nepean-River (326 words)

	Lee Rhiannon Transport Campaigns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Grouting was attempted with the riverbed of the Georges River.
		In the case of the Cataract River, the so-called BHP experts could not or did not measure the depth of the subsidence cracks in the Cataract but speculated "that they may be between 5 and 20 metres deep.
		We will be working closely with community groups throughout Sydney, as the Nepean River flows across Sydney though nine national parks, before meeting the sea in the Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park.
	www.lee.greens.org.au /campaigns/longwall/Nepean.html (585 words)

	Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales, by John Oxley (introduction) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		They crossed the Nepean River at Emu Plains, and ascending the first range of mountains, were entangled among gullies and deep ravines for a considerable time, insomuch that they began to despair of ultimate success.
		He crossed the Nepean River on the 20th of November, 1813, and on the 26th arrived at the termination of Messrs.
		With respect to the construction of the chart prefixed to this Journal, it is thought proper to observe, that the situation of the principal stations of Bathurst, and the depot on the Lachlan River, were ascertained by celestial observations, and connected by a series of triangles, commencing at the latter point, and closing at Bathurst.
	etext.library.adelaide.edu.au /o/o95j/introduction.html (1238 words)

	Fitzgerald’s Creek - Rickard Road Ford to Nepean River
		Just after the put in, Long Angle Creek joins on river left and there is a large boulder straight after on river left, and if 1.5m (1 paddle blade and the paddle shaft) is showing, then the level is good.
		The river at the put in is definitely misleading; it begins as a meandering stream not more than 6m wide, and carrying only about 10 cumecs.
		At the bottom of Aaron’s undoing is an as yet unrun drop where the river passes either side of a huge boulder and appears to seive.
	www.adventurepro.com.au /paddleaustralia/pa.cgi?action=details&id=FITZ1 (973 words)

	Nepean River mine plan sparks protest - Breaking News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		BHP Billiton's intention to conduct environmentally risky mining underneath the Nepean River sparked a protest outside the global resources company's annual general meeting.
		Long wall coal mining on the Cataract River caused subsidence of the river bed of up to 1.6 metres, creating large cracks through which vast volumes of water were lost.
		On the Nepean River, the cracks would also cause the release of millions of litres of methane and hydrogen sulphide gas trapped in a sandstone seam running along the river bed.
	www.theage.com.au - !http: //www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/22/1098316850952.html (343 words)

	Social Communication & Journalism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Nepean River will be the water reservoir for the seven lakes in the complex, four of which will be completed by the Games year 2000, and the remaining ones by 2013.
		The water quality of the river is such a concern that people have called for a "100 per cent" sewage purification treatment plant at Penrith Weir, the site where the lake-filling pumps will be located.
		According to Ted Foster, secretary of the Nepean River Committee, such a plant will solve some of the problems and ensure a "constant and clean source to pump water from".
	journalism.uts.edu.au /archive/olympics/algae.html (591 words)

	EPA \| Stormwater Management Planning s12
		Duck River catchment is defined as that area which drains to the Duck River and its tributaries, together with other catchments located to the south of the Parramatta River and which drain to the Parramatta River at points downstream of the Parramatta Weir and upstream of the mouth of Homebush Bay.
		Mid Georges River catchment is defined as all catchments which drain to the Georges River at locations downstream of the confluence of the Georges River and Prospect Creek, and upstream of the confluence of Mill Creek with the Georges River.
		Upper Georges River catchment is defined as that area draining to the Georges River at points upstream of the Cambridge Avenue Causeway at Glenfield.
	www.epa.nsw.gov.au /stormwater/s12gmr.htm (1658 words)

	Community critics blast world's biggest miner
		Government documents continue to indicate that up to 90% of the flows are lost in some of these rivers, and efforts to fix the cracks have been largely unsuccessful, with the possibility for successful remediation in serious doubt.
		She noted the commitments it made to shareholders during the 2001 AGM to ensure that the mine was well managed regarding the environment after their exit, and that it would fulfil the social and environmental obligations shareholders would expect of the company.
		He also raised a BHPB proposal to divert a river in the region, outlining the reliance of local communities on the water resources in the dry and drought prone province of Guijira.
	www.minesandcommunities.org /Action/press475.htm (3049 words)

	Penrith City Council - Local Suburb Profiles - Emu Plains
		Nepean River Caravan Park is right on the banks of the beautiful river.
		Emu Plains is located on the west side of the Nepean River extending to the foot of the Blue Mountains.
		The alluvial flats immediately flanking the Nepean River were often used for widespread orchard growing in the latter part of the nineteenth century and the early part of the twentieth century, especially at Emu Plains.
	www.penrithcity.nsw.gov.au /index.asp?id=452 (3050 words)

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