COTTER DAM PRE-READING MATERIAL 1 Introduction .........................................................................................................................................................................................................4 2 Landscape .................................................................................................................................................................................................................5 3 Animals ...........................................................................................................................................................................................................................6 3.1 PlatyPus ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................6 3.2 Microbats......................................................................................................................................................................................................6 3.3 Fish ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................6 3.3.1 how will the fish be affected? ...........................................................................................................................................7 3.3.2 What is being done to protect the fish? ...................................................................................................................7 3.4 Fact sheets For Further reading..........................................................................................................................9 4 Plants ...........................................................................................................................................................................................................................10 4.1 Fact sheets For Further reading.......................................................................................................................10 5 Bushfires ................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 11 5.1 1939 bushFires ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 11 5.2 1983 bushFires ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 11 5.3 2003 bushFires .....................................................................................................................................................................................12 6 Geology .....................................................................................................................................................................................................................13 7 Cotter CAvEs .....................................................................................................................................................................................................14 8 Soils .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................15 8.1 Soil characteristics ...............................................................................................................................................................15 8.2 Erosion ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................15 8.3 Unsealed roads ...............................................................................................................................................................................15 8.4 Sheet, rill and gully erosion .....................................................................................................................................16 8.5 SteeP scree sloPes in native areas .................................................................................................................16 8.6 SediMentation ......................................................................................................................................................................................16 8.7 Fact sheet For Further reading ..........................................................................................................................16 9 Forestry industry ....................................................................................................................................................................................17 10 BRumby Running.............................................................................................................................................................................................18 11 Mining .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................19 12 Offsetting greenhOusE gas emissions ...................................................................................................................20 12.1 Biodiesel ......................................................................................................................................................................................................20 12.2 Offsets ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................20 13 People and Place ........................................................................................................................................................................................21 14 Why Is it called ThE Cotter? ....................................................................................................................................................22 15 ThE location Of Canberra – becausE Of ThE Cotter Catchment ...................................23 16 ThE Cotter Dam ...............................................................................................................................................................................................24 16.1 Original daM ...........................................................................................................................................................................................24 16.2 Workers on the original daM ....................................................................................................................................24 16.3 Raising the daM Wall ................................................................................................................................................................24 17 Cotter Pumping Station ....................................................................................................................................................................25 2 Pre-reading material Pre-reading material 18 TOurisM ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................26 18.1 Legacy beauty contest .......................................................................................................................................................27 18.2 Con Fest .......................................................................................................................................................................................................27 18.3 Casuarina sands ..............................................................................................................................................................................27 18.4 Recreation ...............................................................................................................................................................................................28 19 Fishing ...........................................................................................................................................................................................................................29 19.1 Fish hatchery ......................................................................................................................................................................................29 20 Aboriginal heritage ...............................................................................................................................................................................30 21 ThE Enlarged Cotter Dam heritage salvage operation ..............................................................31 21.1 Aboriginal