Natural assets in the catchment

Asset Table

Asset type	Asset name	Comment
World Heritage Area	Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area: 1.03 million hectares of mostly forested landscape on a sandstone plateau 60 to 180 km inland from central Sydney, NSW	Includes: Blue Mountains, Wollemi, Kanangra-Boyd, Yengo, Gardens of Stone, Nattai and Thirlmere Lakes national parks; and the Jenolan Caves Conservation Reserve
Ramsar wetlands	none
Nationally endangered ecological community (EECs) listed on EPBC Act	Blue Gum High Forest of the Sydney Basin bioregion	Listed as critically endangered under EPBC Act and as an endangered ecological community under the TSC Act.
	Turpentine-Ironbark Forest in the Sydney Basin Bioregion	Listed as critically endangered under EPBC Act.
	Shale/Sandstone Transition Forest	Listed as endangered under the EPBC Act and as an endangered ecological community under the TSC Act
	Cumberland Plain Woodland	Listed as endangered under the EPBC Act and as an endangered ecological community under the TSC Act
	Grassy White Box Woodlands	Listed as critically endangered under the EPBC Act and as an endangered ecological community under the TSC Act
	Temperate Highland Peat Swamps on Sandstone	Listed as endangered under the EPBC Act. TSC Act lists Montane Peat Lands and Swamps as an endangered ecological community
	Natural Temperate Grassland of the Southern Tablelands of NSW and ACT	Listed as endangered under the EPBC Act
Wetlands of national significance	Blue Mountains Sedge Swamps	These consist of numerous small wetlands of which 78% are in national parks
	Longneck Lagoon	Much of the catchment of this wetland is within Scheyville National Park
	Pitt Town Lagoon	This wetland is surrounded by urban area and farms
	Thirlmere Lakes	Within Thirlmere Lakes National Park
	Boyd Plateau Bogs	Within Kanangra/Boyd National Park
	Long Swamp/Hanging Rock Swamp	This wetland is part of a larger system known as Paddys River swamps
	Lake Bathurst and the Morass	These wetlands are a mix of leased Crown land and freehold
	Wingecarribee Swamp	This wetland is also on the Register of National Estate