Catchment Connections is a three year grant-funded project that covers -the Terrys, Mars, Shrimptons and Buffalo Creek catchments with all tributaries of the Lane Cove River. 

The partnership project is jointly funded by the NSW Department of the Environment and Climate Change under their Urban Sustainability Grants Program (an initiative of the NSW Environmental Trust) and three local councils: Ryde, Hornsby and Hunters Hill with City of Ryde as the lead council.

The primary objective of the project is to reconnect the community with their catchment through establishing, firstly, an identification with, and emotional attachment to, the catchment within which each project participant lives and, secondly, a commitment on the part of project participants to restore and maintain catchment environmental health through their own individual behaviour.

The project will enable the partner councils to build on past and current environmental initiatives and further engage their local communities via previously established partnerships and educational programs.