Kapooka - Olympic Highway realignment

The project was jointly funded by the Australian Government ($27.5 million) and the State Government's Bridges for the Bush program ($27.5 million).

The new bridge was built by BMD Constructions and replaced the original structure built in 1880, which included two 90 degree bends on the approaches and restricted higher productivity vehicles on this route.

The new alignment has reduced travel times, allowed access to high productivity heavy vehicles and improved road safety along this section of the Olympic Highway.

Major landscaping work is under way along the realigned Olympic Highway at Kapooka.

The project involves the planting of about 9000 trees and shrubs to improve the environment and visual appeal of this important entrance to Wagga Wagga.

The $840,000 contract was awarded to HL Landscapes Pty Ltd of Sydney who will have responsibility for planting and the first year of maintenance until June 2020 to ensure the survival of the new vegetation.

• Executive summary - February 2014

  Executive summary report.

• Table of contents
• Chapter 1

  Background information.

• Chapter 2

  Description of the action.

• Chapter 3

  Description of the environment and matters of national environmental significance.

• Chapter 4

  Impacts.

• Chapter 5

  Proposed avoidance, management and mitigation measures.

• Chapter 6

  Proposed biodiversity offsets.

• Chapter 7

  Social and economic impacts.

• Chapter 8

  Other approvals and conditions.

• Chapter 9

  Information sources provided in the preliminary documentation.

• Chapter 10

  Terms and acronyms.

• Appendix A

  Information requested by DOE.

• Appendix B

  Biodiversity offset strategy.

• Appendix C

  Box gum woodland and hollow-bearing trees.

• Appendix D

  Targeted squirrel glider surveys - Autumn.

• Appendix E

  Winter and Spring woodland bird surveys.

• Executive summary

  December 2013 Executive summary.

• Table of contents
• Chapter 1

  Introduction.

• Chapter 2

  Needs and options considered.

• Chapter 3

  Description of the proposal.

• Chapter 4

  Statutory and planning framework.

• Chapter 5

  Stakeholder and community consultation.

• Chapter 6 - Part 1

  Biodiversity.

• Chapter 6 - Part 2

  Noise and vibration.

• Chapter 6 - Part 3

  Soils, water quality, hydrology and groundwater.

• Chapter 6 - Part 4

  Landscape and visual.

• Chapter 6 - Part 5

  Land use and property.

• Chapter 6 - Part 6

  Traffic transport and access.

• Chapter 6 - Part 7

  Aboriginal heritage.

• Chapter 6 - Part 8

  Non-aboriginal heritage.

• Chapter 6 - Part 9

  Air quality.

• Chapter 6 - Part 10

  Socio-economic factors.

• Chapter 6 - Part 11

  Waste management.

• Chapter 6 - Part 12

  Climate change.

• Chapter 6 - Part 13

  Demand on resources.

• Chapter 6 - Part 14

  Hazard and risk.

• Chapter 6 - Part 15

  2013 Cumulative impacts.

• Chapter 6 - Part 16

  Summary of benefits.

• Chapter 6 - Part 17

  Summary of adverse effects.

• Chapter 7

  Environmental management.

• Chapter 8

  Conclusion.

• Chapter 9

  Certification.

• Chapter 10

  Terms and acronyms.

• Appendix A

  Consideration of Clause 228(2). Factors and matters of national environmental significance.

• Appendix B

  Government agency responses to consultation.

• Appendix C

  Database searches.

• Appendix D

  Ecological assessment.

• Appendix E

  Noise and vibration assessment.

• Appendix F

  Erosion and sediment management report.

• Appendix G

  Soil contamination assessment - decommisioned fuel depot.

• Appendix H

  Aboriginal heritage assessment and supplementary aboriginal heritage assessment.

• Appendix I

  Landscape character and visual impact assessment.

• Appendix J

  Landscape concept plan.

• Executive Summary

  December 2013 Executive summary.

• Table of contents
• Chapter 1

  Contextual information.

• Chapter 2

  Initial assessment.

• Chapter 3

  Survey.

• Chapter 4

  Survey results.

• Chapter 5

  Refined subject species – species likely to be affected.

• Chapter 6

  Impact assessment – species, populations and ecological communities.

• Chapter 7

  Impact amelioration.

• Chapter 9

  Additional information.

• Chapter 10

  References.

• Appendix A

  Director-General’s Requirements.

• Appendix B

  Subject species habitat requirements.

• Appendix C

  Likelihood of occurrence table.

• Appendix D

  Assessments of significance.

• Appendix E

  Flora species lists.

• Appendix F

  Hollow-bearing tree data.

• Appendix G - Part 1

  Data sheets.

• Appendix G - Part 2

  Data sheets.

• Appendix G - Part 3

  Data sheets.

• Appendix G - Part 4

  Data sheets.

• Appendix G - Part 5

  Data sheets.

• Appendix G - Part 6

  Data sheets.

• Appendix G - Part 7

  Data sheets.

• Appendix G - Part 8

  Data sheets.

• Appendix G - Part 9

  Data sheets.

• Appendix G - Part 10

  Data sheets.

• Appendix H

  Meeting minutes with OEH.

• Appendix I

  Specialist bird report (winter).

• Appendix J

  Specialist bird report (spring).

• Appendix K

  Specialist microbat report.

• Appendix L

  Specialist Squirrel Glider report.

• Appendix M

  Specialist Box-Gum Woodland report.

• Appendix N

  Offset site report.

• Community update

  December 2011.

• Kapooka Bridge preferred option report

  December 2011.

• Kapooka Bridge Value Management Option Selection Workshop Report

  May 2011.

• Realignment of the Olympic Highway at Kapooka

  Roads and Maritime Services (replacing Roads and Traffic Authority) has prepared four options to realign the Olympic Highway and replace the existing bridge.