Council provides the following services to Inverell and surrounding Villages:
- Parks and Gardens
- CBD Streetscapes and roundabouts
- Sporting fields and facilities
- Reserves (Lake Inverell and Others)
- Road and Footpath Sweeping
- Facilities Cleaning
- Street Trees
- Horticulture and Arboriculture advice
Recreational Parks
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Lions Park - Old Bundarra Road, Inverell
Facilities:
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Free BBQ
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Amentities
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Picnic Tables
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Playground
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Sinclair Park - Glen Innes Road, Inverell
Facilities:
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Amentities
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Picnic Tables
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Bicentennial Memorial
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Scottish Memorial Cairn
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Victoria Park - Cnr Vivian and Evans Street
Facilities:
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Campbell Park - Captain Cook Drive (end of Campbell Street)
Facilities:
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Picnic Tables
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Amentities
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Playground
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Sealed Walking Track
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Lakes and Reserves
Lake Inverell
Lake Inverell covers the lake and surrounding areas. For 45years the lake provided Inverell's water supply, and as a reserve the foreshore received some protection from which developed a prime wildlife habitat, particularly for water birds. The surrounding area contains one of the Shire's few uncleared remnants of black soil country.
The reserve has some particular significance for Inverell, as the meaning translated from Gaelic is 'meeting place of the swans,' and the town's symbol is the black swan, always seen on the lake.
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Facilities:
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Shelter
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Picnic Tables
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BBQ's
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Observation Hide; and
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Marked Walking Tracks
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Water Birds: seen in the area include - black swan, pleican, black duck, weed duck, musk duck, cormorant, little pied cormorant, white necked heron, white faced heron, azure kingfisher, white spoonbill, swamp hen, darter, ibis, Euroasian coote, little grebe, crested grebe, large egret, grey teal, spur winged plover, dotterels, pied stilt, and the reed warbler.
Mammals and Reptiles: seen in the area include - grey kangaroo, wallaroo, platypus, water rat, easter dragon, snaked necked tortoise, water skink, bearded dragon, goanna, brown snake, black snake, bushtail possum and echidna.
Fish: include - Murray cod, golden perch, goldfish, mosquito fish, rainbow trout, carp, catfish and gudgeon.
Vegetation: the area has open dry sclerophyll forest that include the following plantlife: Yellow box, white box, grevillia, blakely's red gum, native cherry, cypress pine, casuraina, rough barked apple, cayley's ironbark, bottlebrush, native violet, swansonia (poison).
Copeton Dam
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Copeton Dam is almost 3 times the size of Sydney Harbour when full and is surrounded by recreational areas. It is a 113 metre high, earth and rock filled embankment dam on the Gwydir River
near Inverell. The Dam was built by the NSW Department of Water Resources to supply water for
irrigation and was completed in 1976.
It is the most popular holiday spot around the area, the dam boasts some of the finest facilities in
Northern NSW. At the Copeton Waters State Park visitors enjoy hot showers (disabled facilities) and amenities blocks which are scattered throughout the 939 hectare park. Campers are also able to enjoy a free form style of camping.
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Facilities at the State Park include:
· Kiosk (meals available)
· Laundry
· 76 powered camping/caravan sites
· Cabins
· On site vans
· Fuel sales
· Boat hire
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On the northern side of the dam is the (aptly named) Copeton Northern Foreshores Reserve. This area of Copeton Dam (as pictured left) is located 17kmsouth of Inverell and offers:
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Picnic and BBQ Areas
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Amentities block with hot showers
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Powered sites and camping areas
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Boat ramp and fish cleaning table
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Playground
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FISHING
Copeton Dam is renowned as a top Murray Cod, Golden Perch, Silver Perch, Redfin and Eel Tailed Catfish fishery with possibly a remnant trout from past stockings. Rainbow Trout are still taken in the Gwydir River downstream of Copeton Dam. Upstream of the Lake is some pristine gorge country that holds the odd Cod and Yellowbelly. It is rugged country being more suited to goats (which there are a lot in the area) than to people, but can be rewarding at times for those that are keen and fit enough to traverse the boulders and cliffs.
BOATING
There are no boating restrictions on the main body of water inside Copeton Dam but A No Boating zone exists around the Dam Wall. There are several boat launching areas around the lake. The best depends upon the water level at any given time. For more information on Copeton Dam, please select the State Parks link provided.
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Goonoowigall Bushland Reserve
Goonoowigall Bushland Reserve is located on the Tingha Road, 5km South of Inverell. This 900 hectare reserve has a number of attractive pcinic spots. There are greated walking tracks to scenic lookouts, delightful sandy pools, waterfalls and points of historic interest. The name Goonoowigall meaning "pleny rock wallabies" named by the local aboriginals. The reserve bosts over 120 species of native animals and fauna. Some of the more visable species being swamped wallabies, grey kangaroo's, echidna's and of course the rock wallaby.
Goonoowigall wasn't always a nature reserve and some tin mining tool place during the 1870's and a wool wash was established, along a creek, in the 1880's. Remnants of these activities and remains of Chinese settlements maybe seen on the reserve. The walk along the Khunta Karra Kara track in Goonoowigall Reserve was opened in June 2005, a project of Inverell Reconciliation Group. There are plaques along the track recording the places where Aboriginal families lived from the 1940's until the mid 1960's when they are allowed to move into town.
Council strives to project a caring image to both ratepayers and visitors by providing a picturesque and colourful display of seasonal annuals in the CBD and roundabouts.
Council liases closely with organisations such as the local schools, the Inverell Sports Council, along with Servie and Garden clubs to achieve attractive streetscapes matched by quality sporting fields and local parks.
Currently planted in the CBD Roundabouts are the following plant species:
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Campbell Street - Jumbo Giant Mixed Pansy's
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Otho Street - Mixed Viola's
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Vivian Street - Blue Viola's
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Lawrence Street and Evans Street - Mini Snapdragons
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Evan Street - Mixed Viola's
© 2009 Inverell Shire Council
