Waterwatch encourages all Gorokan residents to complete our Gorokan Stormwater Community Survey

We would like to hear about your experience living in the Gorokan Catchment and any concerns you may have regarding environmental isssues affecting Tuggerah Lakes.

Please phone or email us with your name and address so we can post you out a copy of the survey (ph: 4349 4757 email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )

All completed surveys gain you one entry into the draw to win a $50 Bunnings Gift Card. Surveys must be completed and returned before 5pm 31 May 2013

Waterwatch encourages all Kincumber residents to complete our online survey so we can hear about your experience living in the Kincumber Creek Catchment and any concerns you may have regarding environmental issues affecting the creek

www.surveymonkey.com/s/kincreeksurvey

Please complete by 5pm May 31st 2013

Central Coast Waterwatch will be holding a Catchment walk and planting day event on Sunday the 26th May 9am-1pm at Rowan Park, the corner of The Corso and Merrendale Ave Gorokan.

The day will consist of a morning walk along the creek to the GPT, a Waterwatch water quality demonstration, planting of native tube stock along the creek and a talk on the impacts of litter on marine birds by our guest speaker Jo Bird, from The Australian Seabird Rescue.

RSVP Thursday 23rd May to Waterwatch Ph: 4349 4757 or Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Download invitation here

The Proposed Wallarah 2 Coal Project – Wyong is currently on exhibition.

Please make a submission objecting to this proposal for an underground coal mine in our drinking water catchments. Public submissions on the proposal close on June 21.

Premier O'Farrell must keep his water catchment promise and rule out Central Coast mine proposal. The resurrection of the Wallarah 2 coal mine proposal near Wyong highlights the need for binding legal protections for the state’s drinking water catchments.

For more information on the proposal – visit http://www.majorprojects.planning.nsw.gov.au/index.pl?action=view_job&job_id=4974

Download a form letter with key points for your submission

CEN is holding an information session and morning tea this month for community members who are interested in becoming volunteers with the organisation. 

Without our enthusiastic and motivated volunteers we wouldn’t be able to undertake most of our activities. Volunteers help out in many different ways and are able to spend time both in and out of the office. They might become involved in testing water quality, surveying rock platforms, working at CEN’s nursery, helping at events or in the office. 

The volunteer’s information session and morning tea will be held on Thursday 23 May from 9.30 to 10.30am. Anyone interested please call the CEN on 4349 4756 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. au by Wednesday 22 May for more information about the location of the morning tea and to register.

Saturday, 25 May 2013

Venue - Somersby (location given on booking)

10:00am - 1:00pm

The Central Coast ‘Land for Wildlife’ program will be holding a Workshop on Saturday, 25 May  to assist landholders identify whether they have Hanging Swamps on their property and provide information about support that landholders may be able to access.

The workshop will include presentations from the Hawkesbury Nepean Catchment Management Authority on what support is available for landholders in the Somersby plateau area and a local expert on Hanging Swamps, Robin Meldrum.

Hanging Swamps are upland wetlands that occur throughout the Somersby Plateau with a unique assemblage of sedges, grasses and shrubs. Impacts from land clearing and subsequent weed invasion and lack of fire are placing increasing pressure on Hanging Swamps. These distinctive vegetation communities are now classified as Endangered Ecological Communities. 

For bookings or more information - call Rob on 4349 4756 or email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . PLEASE RSVP by Thursday, 23 May 2013

The Community Environment Network (CEN) has received a letter from the Federal Department of Infrastructure and Transport. The letter outlines the results of the Joint Study into Aviation Capacity in the Sydney Region 2012. It also states:  “The Australian Government is not giving any active consideration to an airport in this location.”

The Study concluded that none of the options considered on the Central Coast would meet Sydney’s future aviations needs. It found that an airport in North Wyong was the most expensive, noise would affect the most residents and there were many environmental issues.

The Community Environment Network (CEN) is proud to offer the services of a professional Bush Regeneration Team. CEN has been conducting professional Bush Regeneration Services for over 6 years.

CEN’s Bush Regeneration team has extensive experience in rehabilitating ecosystems including wet and dry sclerophyll forests, rainforest, wetlands, coastal dunes and heathlands. Many of ecosystems that CEN maintains are listed endangered ecological communities including River-flat Eucalypt Forest, Swamp Sclerophyll Forest, Freshwater Wetlands, Littoral Rainforests and Themeda grasslands on seacliffs and coastal headlands.