Protecting the southern Blue Mountains

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Protecting the southern Blue Mountains

Protecting the southern Blue Mountains National Park, from dam construction, again.

While the Warragamba dam wall proposal has been withdrawn, a proposal that would have seen the destruction of 65 kilometres of wilderness rivers and inundate 4,700 hectares of the world heritage-listed Blue Mountains, there has been no proposal to repeal legislation that would allow such a proposal to proceed again.

The wilderness of the southern Blue Mountains form a landscape that has been largely untouched by modern society. The area is home to at least 48 threatened plant and animal species, ancient river valleys, rare dry rainforests, and hundreds of Indigenous cultural sites. The significance of the southern Blue Mountains landscape led it to be inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2000.

The Paddy Pallin Foundation is supporting efforts to repeal enabling legislation for the dam wall raising passed in 2018, that would have otherwise allowed the flooding of the Blue Mountains World Heritage Area.