2024-2025 strategic framework

Vision statement:
To achieve the sustainable health and amenity of the Lake Cathie/Lake Innes Estuarine System.

Mission statement:

Revive Lake Cathie (RLC) will achieve our vision through:

Stewardship of the Lake Cathie/Lake Innes estuarine system.

Advocate for Sustainable Practices in Estuarine & Coastal Waterway Management
<div>Advocacy of Future use and amenity of Lake Innes Lake Cathie Estuarine System and surrounding Nature Reserve</div>

Advocate for Sustainable Practices in Estuarine & Coastal Waterway Management
Advocacy of Future use and amenity of Lake Innes Lake Cathie Estuarine System and surrounding Nature Reserve

Education and involvement of our Community in overall Lake, Estuarine and Nature Reserve Health

Goals and priorities

Revive Lake Cathie’s goals for short, medium, and long term priorities include:

01

Act as “voice of the lake”

Advocate for the Lake Cathie Lake Innes Estuarine System Catchments, Various Stakeholder Management Aims into the Port Macquarie-Hasting Council’s (CMP) Coastal Management Plan, by working collaboratively together
Advocate for PMHC & Government agencies to Future Proof Our Lakes, Waterways and Nature Reserves
Advocate for the widening and lengthening of the opening under Kenwood Drive Bridge, to improve tidal flow

02

Advocate for the decoupling of Lake Innes from Cathie Creek to return to its previous freshwater state
Advocate for dredging of the Lake Cathie/Lake Innes Estuarine System to improve tidal flow and repurpose the sand within the system
Ensure that Lake Cathie Lake Innes Estuarine System and Nature Reserves are at the Heart of All Lake Cathie Community Development
Encourage preservation, regeneration, and protection of our natural environment to promote community involvement, education and welcoming visitors to enjoy our natural assets

03

Support Action to enable Cathie Lagoon to have natural openings
Support Action to minimise Acid Sulphate Soil (ASS) contamination from moving through the Lake Cathie Lake Innes Estuarine System to improve water quality and ecosystem Health
Support Action to improve the tidal flow under Kenwood Drive Bridge
Collect, identify, measure, collate and monitor estuary baseline water quality regularly
Support the improved amenity for the Community of Lake Cathie Lake Innes Estuarine System and surrounding nature reserves

04

Revive Lake Cathie seeks to achieve the sustainable health and amenity of the Lake Cathie/Lake Innes Estuarine System and Nature Reserve
Revive Lake Cathie supports the holistic approach proposed by Lake Cathie Lake Innes Estuarine System Stakeholders in Investigations to implement long-term remediation strategies starting with a review of decoupling Lake Innes and Lake Cathie, increasing the tidal flow under Kenwood Drive Bridge and system-wide dredging.

This approach, when implemented will create sustainable solutions to maximise Estuarine System biodiversity, environmental values and deliver improved water quality enabling our marine life to survive and for us all to enjoy.

Revive Lake Cathie seeks to make natural openings commonplace for our Lagoon & Lake. Revive Lake Cathie supports manual openings of Lake Cathie Lagoon to remedy flooding under guidance from stakeholders,

Maintaining water level to just below the flooding trigger point to protect Lake Cathie from the influx of acid sulfates from Lake Innes. Failing to address the acid sulfate problem risks the future water quality of our lakes and waterways and being able to enjoy the lake in any form.

Revive Lake Cathie Inc will continue to be “Voice Of The Lake”

Royal Haskoning DHV Report 2024

This report documents a comprehensive study conducted by Royal HaskoningDHV in collaboration with the Port Macquarie-Hastings Council (PMHC) and the Department of Planning and Environment (DPE) to upgrade the coastal hydrodynamic model for the Lake Cathie-Lake Innes Estuary.

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