Council has been recognised on the national stage, with its Carbon Revolving Reserve (CRR) project selected as a finalist in the 2019 Cities Power Partnership Awards.

Council monitors local waterways annually for a snapshot of ecological health and recreational water quality and this information for 2019 is now available on our website.

Get up close and personal to turtles and crayfish and see how these fantastic critters eat, breed and interact at Council’s Waterways Festival at Wentworth Falls Lake, on Sunday 25 August. 

Blue Mountains Mayor Mark Greenhill has seized upon an acknowledgement by the NSW Government that its plan to raise the Warragamba Dam wall will create environmental damage.

Blue Mountains City Council has again called for 100 per cent of funds received by the NSW State Government via the NSW Waste Levy, to be returned to the waste industry.

The Blue Mountains Mayor has urgently called on the State and Federal Governments to put a stop to plans to raise the Warragamba Dam wall, following the UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee’s assertion that the proposal is incompatible with world heritage status.

Council has approved six projects for 2019-2020 as part of its goal to significantly reduce its carbon footprint and save money.

Council has endorsed three new community representatives for its Quality of Life Mayoral Reference Group. 

Information on local air quality is now available to the Blue Mountains community with new temporary air quality monitoring stations installed throughout the Blue Mountains. 

Blue Mountains City Council joined fellow local government leaders in Port Augusta, Australia’s renewable capital, to see first-hand the coal to clean energy transformation underway as part of the Climate Council’s Cities Power Partnership program.