Blue Mountains City Council

Environmental Information

Blue Mountains City Council has a wide range of programs to restore and enhance the environment in the local government area.

Interested in the Environment?

For Information on the state of the environment in your Blue Mountains.

How is the Environmental Levy working for you?

Are you a student? Visit our student information about the local environment.

Be an Environmental champion - Help change behavioural patterns and positively influence the environment:

  • Find out about environmental Events that are coming up in the Blue Mountains?
  • GreenPower: a NSW government initiative that puts you in the driving seat: reduce your CO2 emissions by choosing environmentally friendly power sources.
  • Find out about threatened species, and ways that you can reduce the impact on animals in your backyard.
  • The Blue Mountains are surrounded by bushland and it is important that we protect the land around us. Involve yourself with Bushcare, and help promote ecologically sound management of your local bushland.
  • Are you interested in sustainable schools, and educating our children about the environment? If so, then check out our School Networks site.
  • Learn about sustainable landscaping through our Mountain Landscape page. You can change your immediate environment with minimal negative impacts on the existing landscape.
  • Work together with your local community for Living Streams, and healthy catchments.
  • Biodiversity is about the web of life - it's all connected. It's all important.

Every village of the Blue Mountains has a Bushcare or Landcare Group or people involved in Bush Backyards. Depending on what area of the mountains that you live in, you may be interested in environmental projects focussing on:

  • Aquatic weed removal from Glenbrook Lagoon.
  • Protection of hanging swamps and flood control at Wentworth Falls Lake
  • Community participation in environmental activities in North Katoomba