Lake Macdonald Dam Improvement Project - February 2024 Update

Amelia Lorentson13:55

Okay, let's move to item or report number 6.2, Lake Macdonald Dam improvement project, February 2024 update. I welcome to the desk Ian Williams. Hello Ian and Shaun, thank you. Aloha. Yeah. Great shirt. Thank you. We sort of match. Yeah, we do a bit. I'll throw it to you Ian if you can give us an overview of the report in front of us.

Yeah, absolutely. Thank you very much everyone. Great to be here. It's on what is going to be a fairly sizeable topic, I think, for the next four to five years of our Shire, for sure. You probably would have heard through the 10th of March, obviously, that the minister made an announcement that the Lake Macdonald Dam improvement project would begin. With works planned for mid-year. So in close consultation here with Shaun, we've obviously started the ball rolling internally and externally, so internally we're going to have a meeting this Thursday with our stakeholders internally and externally next Tuesday the 13th we'll be having our first external meeting or this is the Seqwater meeting. So the first thing to point out here is that Seqwater is obviously the asset holder here so this is a state government funded project and all engagement communication with our community be led through them. Our interests obviously lie with various points of sensitivity around that to do with the traffic and the disruption that will occur over the next four to five years with other projects namely obviously the thing that is going on with Black Mountain and Kin Kin various things that significant amount of truck movement needs to be clarified with our community over time about where it's going and why it's going so engagement with our residents has started through with Seqwater already and the really this is around obviously failure risk position of the actual existing dam and the works are going to happen in that case so that involves what we call a cofferdam so that's going to be a dam wall in front of the existing wall so the construction of that then the removal eventually of the existing wall and putting then obviously then a new wall there and then a remover of the old cofferdam so it's a quite a large and segmented project over a number of time over amount of time but it will also involve an awful lot of involvement around works and disruption to our community.