As part of its continuing work to define the pipeline route of the Mardi-Mangrove Link Project, the Project Team has confirmed it now has access to more than 92 per cent of directly affected properties in Yarramalong Valley.

According to Project Director, Bob Peacocke, this access is enabling the Project Team to make good progress with its current investigation and survey work along the recommended pipeline route corridor.

‘To date we’re more than half way through our route walkover and geotechnical engineering investigations as well as about a quarter of the way through our environmental and ecological investigations,’ confirmed Bob Peacocke.

‘At the same time, the valuers have completed about 10 per cent of their work to enable compensation payments to affected landholders to be assessed. We are also working through the engineering survey work on the pipeline corridor.’

This latest update information on the proposed pipeline was recently shared in person at a Mardi-Mangrove Link Project Open House at Wyong Creek Hall in Yarramalong Valley. More than 50 people attended.

‘The majority of people who attended the Open Day were either community members from outside of the Valley, or local residents not directly affected by the pipeline route but who were keen to find out more about what was happening with this much needed water pipeline,’ explained Bob Peacocke. ‘Only about a third of visitors were landholders who will be directly affected by the pipeline.

‘While the Project Team has clearly been spending considerable time liaising with affected landholders in the Valley it’s also very important that other community members and water users remain up-do-date on the progress of the Project, especially as the Mardi-Mangrove Link, once complete, will help secure the Central Coast’s water supply system over the next four decades.’

Everyone who attended the Open House was able to take away a comprehensive pack of fact sheets which provided an update on a number of key aspects of the pipeline, from the detailed engineering, geotechnical and ecological investigations currently underway through to the stringent statutory approvals and requirements the Project is required to meet.  

As part of the Project’s ongoing community liaison and information program, similar update information is currently being prepared for display at local shopping centres around the Central Coast. The Mardi-Mangrove Link Project web pages at www.gwcwater.nsw.gov.au are also being updated this week.

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