‘People before plants’: NSW government charges ahead with dam wall raising | rabe9
A controversial plan to raise the Warragamba Dam wall will be accelerated by the NSW government despite warnings over the project’s environmental impacts, as Premier Dominic Perrottet declared the state must “put people before plants”.
The premier said Water NSW would soon complete a report into the dam wall raising before it is sent to the Environmental Protection Authority and eventually the federal government for approvals, “then bang we’re done, we start the work”. Declaring a project State Significant Infrastructure also makes it more difficult for opponents to launch legal challenges against it.
“The only way is up, build that wall, get it up by 14 metres and that’s what we plan to do and great to see that today,” Anderson said. “We also need to build homes so young people can get into the property market. It’s a balancing act. We can’t stop development, we need development.”Asked whether the decision to raise the dam wall was politically motivated ahead of an election set to be won or lost in western Sydney, Perrottet said, “It’s not about votes, it’s about protecting communities.”
Sharpe said the government’s plan was eight years from completion, and people vulnerable to flooding in western Sydney needed a more urgent response.A document produced in June by an independent inquiry into the state’s recent flooding disasters warned more than 160,000 people would require evacuation from the Hawkesbury-Nepean floodplain in the event of an extreme flood in 2041 if development was to go ahead as planned.
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