Deakin Park – Waterway Health Improvement Project

Sydney Water and the City of Parramatta are working together to help clean the Parramatta River.

As part of this work, we are working together to implement a waterway health improvement feature at Deakin Park, Silverwater.

Earlier this year, we asked the community for ideas and suggestions to help us improve Deakin Park including waterway health and environmental outcomes. Thank you to everyone who provided feedback.  Here's what the community said.

This feedback was used to develop the draft Landscape Plan for the park and the design for the waterway health improvement feature.

• Summary of draft Landscape Plan proposed changes 
• View the draft Landscape Plan (pdf)

Tell us what you think and complete the feedback form below

Comments close 22 December 2021

Please register for the online information session:

On Tuesday 14 December 

From 6 pm - 7 pm

Online via teams – meeting invites will be forwarded to your email. 

Sydney Water and Parramatta City Council want to hear what you think about upgrading Deakin Park in Silverwater. This is your opportunity to get involved and have your say.

Sydney Water has a Waterway Health Improvement Program and one of the key outcomes is to improve the health and quality of stormwater before it enters the Parramatta River. The stormwater channel in Deakin Park drains from the M4 to the Duck River, a tributary of the Parramatta River.

Deakin Park is owned by City of Parramatta Council and together we are looking at ways to improve water quality, natural habitat and the park as a whole.

The park has been identified as a site for a water quality improvement project incorporating the existing stormwater channel.

Sydney water will be working with Council on a Masterplan for the park and we would like to better understand how the community uses the park and potential ideas for improvement.

Comments closed 11 July 2021