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Elliot Lake - Little Lake Floodplain Risk Management Plan

Created 22/01/2026

Updated 22/01/2026

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Executive Summary

Cardno were commissioned by Shellharbour City Council to undertake the Floodplain Risk Management Study and Plan for the Elliot Lake – Little Lake catchment area

Background

The Elliot Lake – Little Lake catchment lies south of Lake Illawarra and drains to the Tasman Sea via Elliot Lake – Little Lake. The catchment covers approximately 12.4 km2 and includes the suburbs of Barrack Heights, Shellharbour, Flinders, Blackbutt and large parts of Mt Warrigal and Warilla. The majority of the catchment is urbanised with predominantly residential development and some business and light industry. Blackbutt Forest Reserve and the area upstream of the Princes Highway in the southern part of the catchment form the two main undeveloped areas. The main waterways of the catchment are Bensons Creek, Bensons Tributary and Tongarra Creek. Bensons Creek and Bensons Tributary drain the northern part of the study area, whilst Tongarra Creek drains the southern part. Both creeks drain into Elliot Lake – Little Lake which discharges to the Tasman Sea at Barrack Point.

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Field Value
Title Elliot Lake - Little Lake Floodplain Risk Management Plan
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/b4b0be8c-e56d-4520-a997-5761ea1ebb39
Remote Last Updated 14/01/2026
Contact Point
Reference Period 17/12/2025 - 01/08/2016
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    147.0179,
    -32.1618
  ],
  "type": "Point"
}
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Data Source

This dataset was originally found on DataNSW "Elliot Lake - Little Lake Floodplain Risk Management Plan". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/nsw-fdp-elliot-lake-little-lake-floodplain-risk-management-plan