West Dapto Water Infrastructure

Miltonbrook Project Management is acting on behalf of 3 landholders (Castagna, Hill & Heininger) located at the corner of Yallah & Marshall Mount Roads, Yallah, to assist them through the current rezoning process with the aim to achieve a zoning that will facilitate the development of a relatively compact urban village, which includes a town centre at the intersection of Yallah & Marshall Mount Roads.
Sydney Waters exhibited plans include provision of water & wastewater services to this most southern precinct (Yallah/Marshall Mount) of the WDURA. The exhibited plans appear to be very generalized and and as a result we can see the need for Sydney Water to be granted considerable flexibility in any approval as a result of this application.
Further, as Wollongong City Council is still completing the detailed strategic planning for this precinct, the final location of trunk infrastructure & pumping stations may need to be adjusted. For example, we can see the need for the WWPS on Marshall Mt Rd (Hrs Colleen Heiningers land) to be shifted north closer to the confluence of Duck & Heininger Creeks, in order for the pump station to be at the bottom of the urban catchment.
We therefore request that Sydney Water be given the flexibility to adjust their plans as planning detail is finalized, but in consultation with those landholders that will be directly affected.
Lawson Fredericks
Project Manager
Miltonbrook Project Management Pty. Ltd
Mob: 0418 264 810
E-mail : [email protected]

To whom it may concern;

The proposal 09-0189, for Water and Wastewater Servicing of the West Dapto Urban Release Area, is general principle is supported.

As the owner of a property, I have grave concerns concerning the proposed trunk sewer and water main alignments.

These concerns are:
* Prior to detail design, Sydney Water needs to consult with the landowners/developers on the final alignment of infrastructure. These alignments must take into account proposed future development boundaries/proposals, have sufficient servicing depths and connection points at optimal locations.
* Trunk main does not impede or limit the potential developable land area. If it does, then Sydney Water compensates landowners to the final developable yield cost of land.
* Trunk main does not impose buffers or limitations on land development.
* Sydney Water Design must account for future service to be constructed in same corridor. Example, services along Wongawilli road must account for the culvert upgrade widening and substantial stormwater drainage that is required to be installed as part of the Wongawilli Road upgrade. This will minimise potential risk to trunk main from future construction works as well as future infrastructure construction costs.
* Appropriate insurance and public liability of all construction works occurring on Private land. This covers and identifies owners of private land of these works.
* Future construction works to ensure no disruption to business activities or endangering livestock located on private property.

Ensure all design of services around and in our property have consultations with our engineers, minimising any future impacts.

Kind Regards

I approve of the plans but with comments.

It is important that the trunk waste water pipe, servicing the Western end of Marshall mt road and north Marshall Mt rd, is extended to North Marshall Mt Rd and sized adequately so that it is not the limiting factor in future planning decisions.

Given the geography of the Wollongong LGA, it is important that optimal use is made of all available urban capable land.

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SUPPORT, BUT WITH QUALIFICATIONS

We approve Sydney Water's Environment Assessment prepared in support of the Concept Plan to construct and operate water and wastewater infrastructure to service the new development in West Dapto Urban Release Area and Adjacent Growth Areas.
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Information prepared by Sydney Water summarises the benefits of the proposal as including:
* a secure water supply
* a reticulated wastewater service that protects public health
* protection of catchment and river health
* affordable and efficient water and wastewater services to meet the NSW Government's development timeframes and support the orderly roll-out of land releases and infrastructure.

The planning for water and wastewater infrastructure covers the last remaining significant urban release areas in the Illawarra and should, in our opinion make provision for the possibility to increase housing densities beyond the current NSW Government time frames. Urban capable land is becoming a scarce resource.
In particular, we believe the trunk infrastructure required to extend the existing waste water systems to the Yallah/Marshall Mount precinct should be reconsidered because increased densities, beyond current estimates, could be supported by the sustainable design concept envisaged for this precinct.

We are concerned that the exhibited SW plans overlook some vital planning and development issues, and we therefore ask that the points in our attached submission be considered before designs and plans for trunk wastewater infrastructure are finalised.

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