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Close analysis of the Soil Erosion Assessment indicates that soil loss
due to erosion caused by the construction of the New England Solar
(NES) project could total in the order of 550,000 tonnes per year over
the entire 2787 ha footprint. During its operation this could remain
in the order of hundreds of thousands of tonnes per year, each year,
for the life of the project.

The Surface Water Assessment (SWA) indicates the risk that this
erosion will result in the "mobilisation of sediment into receiving
watercourses," potentially millions of tonnes over the life of the
project.

Given the NES project is located entirely within the Salisbury Waters
catchment, adjacent to 5th and 6th order streams, and only some 10km
from Dangars Falls downstream, where it enters the pristine wilderness
of the Oxley Wild Rivers National Park, this represents an extreme and
potentially catastrophic environmental hazard.

Given also the NES project location, and the inevitability that
construction, operation and maintenance of the solar arrays will
destroy vegetation, disturb and compact soils and heavily suppress
revegetation over such a large area, it is almost inconceivable that
this scale of erosion could be effectively mitigated, let alone
prevented by any control measures described in the SWA. In the absence
of comprehensive design plans for, and quantitative scientific
analysis of the effectiveness of any such proposed control measures,
any assurances to that effect should be rejected out of hand.

It is an inescapable conclusion that the proposed site is entirely
unsuitable for solar arrays of the scale of the NES project, and the
entire project should be abandoned.

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