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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.
Credit:Brook Mitchell
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.