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The ability of a growing number of concerned groups to legally challenge the raising of the Warragamba Dam wall would be all but removed under a push by the government entity behind the controversial project.
The stateâs top planning bureaucrat, Jim Betts, said his department was reviewing a request by WaterNSW to have Planning Minister Rob Stokes declare the $1.6 billion plan a piece of critical state significant infrastructure, making it an essential project for the state.
WaterNSW is pushing to have the raising of the Warragamba Dam wall categorised as critical state significant infrastructure.
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The government wants to raise the wall of Sydneyâs biggest reservoir by as much as 17 metres to prevent floods causing widespread damage to communities in the Hawkesbury Nepean Valley.
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NSWâs vision for the future dependent on flood modelling
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Billions of dollars of development in Sydneyâs west and north-west are dependent on flood-proofing the region, with growing opposition to raising the Warragamba Dam wall casting doubt on ambitions to double the population and generate thousands of new jobs in the area.
Planning Minister Rob Stokes said on Tuesday the NSW governmentâs vision for the future of the Hawkesbury-Nepean region depended on flood modelling being undertaken in the area while the state embarks on a controversial plan to raise the wall of Sydneyâs biggest reservoir by as much as 17 metres.