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the Angus Creek Stormwater Harvest-
ing Scheme. The Council, in partner-
ship with the Australian Government,
has completed a facility that will be
able to store and clean 200 million li-
tres of stormwater per year. Most of
the water will be used for the irrigation
of the Blacktown International Sport-
spark fields as well as the Anne Aq-
uilina Reserve, Kareela Reserve, and
Charlie Bali Reserve while some part
will go towards topping up the Nurrag-
ingy ornamental lakes. This will not
only save money for the Council but
it will also have major environmental
impacts both due to the conservation
of rain water and due to the erosion
that usually occurs in Angus Creek and
the subsequent disruption of the local
ecosystem.
A project that will be being going to
tender shortly is the Rouse Hill Bridge.
This project has been given priority sta-
tus to facilitate the growth in the NW
Growth Area. The area that surrounds
Rouse Hill Bridge was traditionally rural
but it now forms part of the residential
release areas. Several facilities, includ-
ing a major school adjacent to Rouse
Road, flooded often due to heavy rain.
The Council identified a need to make
the area flood-free and were success-
ful in securing a grant to partially fund
the construction of a new bridge, with
Council funding the remainder through
its Section 94 Plan. Council has been
responsible for designing the project
and will manage the construction ele-
ments such as the bridge approaches
with the actual bridge structure to be
supplied to external contractors.
Maintaining community
facilities, grounds for sport
and recreation
Such infrastructure is not the only
concern of the Council, of course.
Community relations are also vital-
ly important, especially through cen-
tres of communication and interac-
tion. In 2009, there was a general plan
to consolidate and centralize a lot of
the community facilities and services
which were used throughout the lo-
cal government area. By ensuring that
the newly provided community hubs
would be readily accessible to every-
one, each area would benefit from a
more central approach. To accomplish
that, they turned several existing facil-