The total number of sociocultural assets identified in the PAE of the Sydney Basin bioregion is 251, of which 219 are classified in the ‘Cultural’ subgroup and 32 are classified in the ‘Social’ subgroup. Sources of data are summarised in Table 22. Most assets (243) are derived from the Register of the National Estate (Department of the Environment, Dataset 1). Two assets are Commonwealth heritage-listed (Department of the Environment, Dataset 2), three assets are National heritage-listed (Department of the Environment, Dataset 3) and one World heritage-listed asset (Department of the Environment, Dataset 4) – the Greater Blue Mountains Area World Heritage Area. Also included in the asset list are 25 Indigenous sociocultural assets sourced from Register of the National Estate (RNE; Department of the Environment, Dataset 1). An additional two Indigenous assets were identified from a report prepared by Moggridge (2010), which identified culturally significant groundwater-dependent ecosystems (GDEs) and reaches for the Hawkesbury-Nepean Catchment Management Authority (CSIRO, Dataset 5). Figure 23 and Figure 24 show the location of the cultural and social assets that intersect the PAE.
The total number of assets judged to be water dependent in the PAE of the Sydney Basin bioregion is 190 (Table 22). These are based on their proximity to surface water and/or groundwater features (Section 1.3.1.4). Details can be found in the water-dependent asset register for the Sydney Basin bioregion (Bioregional Assessment Programme, Dataset 6).
Table 22 Summary of sociocultural assets in the preliminary assessment extent (PAE) of the Sydney Basin bioregion
Figure 23 Water-dependent cultural assets of the Sydney Basin bioregion
Data: Bioregional Assessment Programme (Dataset 6)
Figure 24 Water-dependent social assets of the Sydney Basin bioregion
Data: Bioregional Assessment Programme (Dataset 6)
