My name is Ramona Headifen and I live in Port Melbourne VIC. I am concerned about the effects humans have on our environment in many ways - including plastics in the ocean, effects of climate change and our impact on other species/biodiversity. Things work in perfect balance until we, as humans, upset them and then sometimes the consequences are irreversible.
I strongly oppose the proposal to raise Warragamba Dam due to the project’s unacceptable potential impacts on the environment including to the Blue Mountains World Heritage Area and threatened species in particular the Regent Honeyeater. This species is listed as Critically Endangered at both a state and federal level, with as few as 350 individuals remaining in the wild.  We need to do everything we can to protect and preserve them! There are only a handful of contemporary breeding sites for Regent Honeyeater and during the assessment of the project a total of twenty one (21) Regent Honeyeaters, including active nests, were recorded within the impact area.
The destruction and degradation of breeding habitat for Regent Honeyeaters is incongruous with the time and money that the Federal and NSW Governments have invested into the recovery program, including the Regent Honeyeater Captive Breeding and Release program. It is unacceptable and inconsistent with the National Recovery Plan for any avoidable loss or degradation of breeding habitat to occur and therefore I strongly oppose the Project’s offset strategy for the Regent Honeyeater.
Thank you for your help and in advance for protecting these critically endangered birds.

To whom it may concern,
it is imperative that the proposed raising of the Warragamba Dam wall by 17 metres does not go ahead. The destruction of so many culturallly-significant aboriginal sites, the loss of incredibly valuable habitat to many rare and endangered species such as the Regent Honeyeater, and the absolute desicration of what is World Heritage environment, cannot be allowed. The EIS has been a flawed, biased process, and the greatest priority appears to have been given to the state government's plan to open up even more land for housing development in flood-prone areas! There ARE alternatives to raising the dam wall, and they need to be carefully, and conscientiously, implimented. The alternative, deliberately flooding so much pristine wilderness would be a damning inditement on this government, forever.

To whom it may concern,
The proposal for increasing the height of the Warragamba Dam walll will greatly adversely affect the Blue Mountains environment. It is an unacceptable cost to the environment and the increase in the wall height should not proceed

To whom it may concern,
Raising the dam wall will flood key regent honeyeater habitat and further degrade our struggling ecosystem.

To whom it may concern,
i write to ask that you please refrain from building the Warragamba Dam. We need to preserve nature wherever possible and avoid developments that have a destructive impact on the environment, such as this project.

To whom it may concern,
If this dam wall were to be raised, more than 1,000 sites of immense cultural and historical significance in the beautiful Burragorang Valley, including irreplaceable Indigenous cave art galleries and occupation and burial sites, would be drowned under metres of muddy water. Please don't allow this to occur.

To me this seems to be totally unnecessary as it is going to decimate a pristine area containing habitat for endangered species of fauna and flora as well as Aboriginal heritage and artifacts. Why would you consider this project when we have a desalination plant that was built to safeguard Sydney's water supply in dry times. To me there is an agenda hear that we are not being told about. So my plea to you is to re examine this proposal with greater depth and shelve the whole idea.

To whom it may concern,

To raise the dam wall in a catchment area that receives such little rainfall in comparison to the coastal areas which get the south easterly low pressure changes and hence rainfall, both in summer and winter, when most of Sydney's rain is within 30km of the coast, easily confirmed by BOM rain radar maps when a southerly low hits.
So consideration should be to try to capture some of this run off somehow, not raise Warragamba wall that with increasing climate change will still remain largely in drought, while the coastal areas receive rainfall.

To whom it may concern,
I strongly object to the raising of the Warragamba Dam wall. It is a poorly thought out engineering solution that won't actually fix the flood-plain issues. The environmental impact on a World Heritage area will be devastating. I grew up walking the Kowmung River and would like my children to have the same opportunity.
The Traditional Owners have not had informed consent in this matter. Australia is already known internationally for our racism and poor treatment of the indigenous peoples, our extinction happy environmental policies, and lip-service to maintaing World Heritage areas. The Great Barrier Reef can already be considered a lost cause. I don't want another World Heritage area to follow suit. Stop making Australia an international embarrasment.