Cooks River Sustainability Initiative

The Cooks River Sustainability Initiative is a partnership between eight councils – Ashfield, Bankstown, Canterbury, City of Sydney, Hurstville, Marrickville, Rockdale and Strathfield and is focused on six local areas within the Cooks River catchment. The project team will work with communities, businesses and councils for long term improvement of the catchment.

Welcome & News

Our River Vision Sessions and Planning Forums 12.12.2008

The Our River team along with Ashfield, Canterbury and Strathfield Councils recently hosted a series of visioning sessions and planning forums for residents of the Ashbury and Strathfield South subcatchments. At the vision sessions and planning forums, residents were given an opportunity to create a future ‘2050' vision and work with Council to develop long term plans for their subcatchments and the Cooks River. To view the draft Vision statements created by residents of the Ashbury and Strathfield South subcatchments, please click here:   Draft Ashbury subcatchment community 2050 vision Draft Strathfield South community 2050 vision The Our River team and Council would like to thank all the residents who participated in these events and for sharing their ideas and valuable local knowledge.

Community Water Survey Update 13.10.2008

Thank you to the residents that responded to the Community Water Survey recently undertaken in the Ashbury, Eastern Channel 1 East, Munni Street, Strathfield South and Upper Wolli Creek subcatchments. We had a great response and are currently compiling the results which will be used to inform future water planning in these areas. Results will be made available on this website and in other council publications over the coming weeks.

Cooks River bank restoration Freshwater Park Strathfield 13.08.2008

Strathfield Council is currently in the last stages of completing a three part project to tackle serious bank erosion of the Cooks River and local flooding in Freshwater Park. Stage one of the major bank rehabilitation project, began in 2001 - 2002, to a 200m section of the Cooks River, just upstream from Hedges Ave, several homes in this area and the Strathfield Golf Club where under serious threat from the collapsing river banks. Read more