By John Edwards – July 2008

Introduction

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Shannon Creek is situated on the North Coast of New South Wales, about 20

kilometres south west of the city of Grafton, in relatively remote and rugged country.

That area supports an amazing biodiversity, with unique ecosystems supporting a

wide variety of flora and fauna species, and ecological communities, some known to

only occur in the direct vicinity.

Amongst those are three species that have only been discovered in the short period

since 1995, about the time the local water authority, now known as North Coast

Water (NCW), a business arm of the Clarence Valley Council, decided to build a

large dam to store water transferred into the valley from the nearby Nymboida River.

Currently there is a total of 13 threatened plant species, and 5 endangered ecological

communities within the impact zone of the dam, and most will already have suffered

destruction through the construction activities for the dam and its associated

infrastructure.

Shannon Creek's Troubled Flora & Fauna

A review of the December 2007 Threatened Species

Monitoring Report for the Shannon Creek Dam Project

The Eastern abutment of the Shannon Creek dam under construction.