Welcome to our new look website with many interactive features to allow you to access a lot more information, mapping and reports.

Find out what your sub-catchment's features are by clicking on the catchment map to the right then view individual localities with loads of information on types of land use, significant natural icons, soils types and catchment drainage lines.

Subscribe to the RSS feed so you will automatically receive all the latest news from Namoi CMA or download a monitoring and evaluation form to send us details of results of works you have carried out with assistance from Namoi CMA.

We hope you will find our new website an informative tool to help us improve natural resource management in the Namoi Catchment.

About the Namoi Catchment

The Namoi Catchment in north west NSW is bounded by the Great Dividing Range in the east, the Liverpool Ranges and Warrumbungle Ranges in the south, and the Nandewar Ranges and Mt. Kaputar to the north. Major tributaries of the Namoi River include Coxs Creek and the Mooki, Peel, Cockburn, Manilla, and Macdonald Rivers, all of which join the Namoi upstream of Boggabri. Stretching from Woolbrook in the east to Walgett on the western boundary the catchment is over 350 kilometres long.

Our catchment is home to around 100,000 people, in an area of approximately 42,000 square kilometres, concentrated mostly along the Namoi River and its tributaries between Tamworth and Narrabri. The Kamilaroi people inhabited the entire Namoi Catchment prior to colonisation. Today, there are 12 local land councils representing some 6,500 people.

Of our annual regional output of over A$1 Billion, agricultural production enterprises represent approximately half. This is around 11% of the State's on farm production from only 6.25% of the State's area.

Major industries include cotton, livestock production, grain and hay, poultry and horticulture.

If managed well, the Namoi Catchment can provide ongoing and significant economic wealth and diverse environmental wonders, giving us many reasons to support and improve our natural resources.