Aboriginal Community Partnership Strategy
The Cooks River Alliance (CRA), announces the Goolay’yari Aboriginal Partnership Strategy. The Aboriginal Community Partnership Strategy is a roadmap for Aboriginal inclusion and partnership, co designed with Traditional Custodians and…
Primo Foods to pay $150,000 after Cooks River discharge
Primo Foods must pay $150,000 towards community projects in a legally binding Enforceable Undertaking with the NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) after wastewater from its Western Sydney facility allegedly polluted…
Urban Rivers and Catchment Program Grants
The Urban Rivers and Catchments Program is now open until Tuesday February 2024. A total of $109 million will be available from July 2024 to fund around 100 waterway projects around…
Compliant building sites good news for NSW waterways
NSW builders are ‘getting the site right’ with more than half successfully implementing erosion and sediment controls to protect local environments, but councils and regulators still had to hand out…
The Cooks River is Getting a $10 Million Makeover!
The Albanese Labor Government is investing $10 million to revitalise the iconic Cooks River in south-eastern Sydney. The funding will be used to plant trees, stabilise riverbanks, and install litter…
Sydney Water Community Grants Program 2023
Cooks River Alliance Encourages Locals to Apply for Sydney Water Grants Sydney Water is now accepting applications for its annual Community Grants Program. The program provides funding for projects that…
Cooks River Litter Data Snapshot 2022
The Cooks River Litter Data Snapshot 2022 provides an overview of the Key Littered Items Study (KLIS), a long-term program for monitoring marine debris along the NSW coast, with a…
The Paddle Trails of the Cooks River
The Cooks River Paddle Trail website has recently launched, offering maps and routes for paddlers to explore the Cooks River in Sydney. Organized by the River Canoe Club and supported…
Solar Compactor Bins Combat Litter in Cooks River Pilot
This solar compactor bin is part of the Inner West Council ‘Love your home ground’ litter prevention pilot project, funded by the NSW EPA and in partnership with the Cooks…
Establishment Plan for a Cooks River Report Card Program
Report cards are often used to show the health of waterways, by using indicators including water quality, presence of native and exotic vegetation and the types of waterbugs found in…
Love your home ground
Here at the Cooks River Allaince we love when our partners do amazing things for the river!! Another happy story below! In early 2022 Inner West Council applied for and…
Cooks River Community Values Survey – Closed
The Cooks River Community Values Survey closed on Sunday 5th September with over 1100+ respondents and five prize winners announced on our social media pages. The engagement outcomes and next…