This report is part of the first stage of the management process for the Double Bay catchment and has been prepared for Woollahra Municipal Council by Bewsher Consulting Pty Ltd. It documents the nature and extent of flooding throughout the catchment.

• Foreword, glossary, executive summary and introduction (PDF, 571.3 KB)
• Database (PDF, 132.4 KB)
• Community consultation (PDF, 3.5 MB)
• Historic flooding (PDF, 279.4 KB)
• Flood study methodology (PDF, 115.8 KB)
• Drains modelling (PDF, 3.2 MB)
• Tuflow modelling (PDF, 105.4 KB)
  • Figure 16 (PDF, 14.4 MB)
  • Figure 17 (PDF, 14.8 MB)
  • Figure 18 (PDF, 14.8 MB)
  • Figure 19 (PDF, 15.8 MB)
  • Figure 20 (PDF, 11.2 MB)
• References (PDF, 456 KB)

Floodplain Risk Management Study and Plan for the Double Bay catchment

In broad terms, the report investigates what can be done to minimize the effects of flooding in the Double Bay catchment and has recommended a strategy in the form of a draft plan. The community provided input for the Plan in 2009.

For easy reading, the plan has been divided into chapters below.

• Executive Summary and Table of Contents (PDF)
• Chapter 1 Introduction (PDF, 1.0 MB)
• Chapter 2 Background information (PDF, 1.6 MB)
• Chapter 3 Community consultation (PDF, 3.4 MB)
• Chapter 4 Flood behaviour summary (PDF, 18.4 MB)
• Chapter 5 Defining the flood problem (PDF, 2.9 MB)
• Chapter 6 Evaluation of Floodplain Management Problems (PDF, 8.3 MB)
• Chapter 7 Draft Floodplain Management Plan (PDF, 3.0 MB)
• Chapter 8 Appendicies (PDF, 2.2 MB)

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