Stop the developers' dam

The NSW Government wants to raise Warragamba Dam wall to open the flood gate to developers.

Raising the dam wall will encourage massive over development on flood-prone areas in Penrith, Londonderry, Riverstone and Windsor - costing taxpayers $1 billion. The NSW Government plans to house an additional 134,000 people on western Sydney floodplains after the dam wall is raised.

If you don’t want high-density housing, traffic congestion, or overcrowded schools and hospitals, take action today.

Sign the petition, and tell the Government to drop its developers' dam plan.

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cc. Hon. Tanya Davies MP cc. Hon. Stuart Ayres MP cc. WaterNSW
Raising the Warragamba Dam wall will open western Sydney floodplains to development, swelling the populations of Penrith, Windsor, Richmond and Riverstone by 134,000 in the next coming years. Western Sydney communities are already desperately short of school places, medical services and public transport. We do not need more urban-sprawl across our agricultural floodplains. <a href="https://www.9news.com.au/2019/02/06/14/56/raising-nsw-dam-wall-good-for-developers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Recent media investigations</a> have revealed floodplain property developers are set to benefit from the raising of Warragamba dam wall. Developers believe if the Warragamba Dam wall is raised, flood waters would be held behind a raised dam wall and therefore not flood their (currently) flood-prone land that they wish to develop.
The State Emergency Services (SES) have warned that new developments around Penrith and the Hawkesbury should not go ahead as it will risk the lives of thousands of people, regardless of the dam wall raising. Scientific investigations have also revealed that raising Warragamba Dam wall would have little impact on floods, with major flooding still occurring downstream if the raised dam due to the creeks and rivers that flow into the Hawkesbury-Nepean River downstream of Warragamba Dam wall.
I call on you, as my local member of Parliament, not to support the raising of Warragamba Dam wall. Raising the dam wall will put thousands more lives at risk on the Hawkesbury-Nepean floodplain and cause massive over-development in western Sydney that is not supported by the local community.

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