The Creighton Report

Wagga Wagga Report
greater than 0.02m and this increase will occur across open land to the south adjacent to
the track. With regard to the local-catchment (over-land) flooding there will be an impact as
a result of the development. This will be predominantly localised in the detention basin to
the south-west of the track where an increase of 0.17m is predicted. The detention basin on
site has been designed to capture this water and therefore there are no impacts outside of
the site. As noted above the assessment of local catchment water only, in the flood reports,
had not previously been captured and was part of the additional detail requested by Water
NSW.
Water NSW, as an integrated approval body, were referred the details of the modification
application. They advised Council that the existing flood work approval will require updating
to reference the new consent details and date. This will be secured by a new condition of
consent (2A). 161
7.2 Tender Process for the Construction of Riverina Paceway
HRNSW was responsible for the construction of the facility. On 30 November 2016 it
announced that it had appointed GHD Group as the project manager for the new
development. 162 On 7 April 2017 HRNSW announced that it had awarded the construction
of the paceway to Ladex. 163 Further investigations found that HRNSW had appointed
McKinnon Design in Orange to manage the procurement process by inviting expressions of
interest for the building and earthworks of paceway, the results of which would be used to
select a tender list for the project. 164
161
Ibid p 47.
162
Harness Racing New South Wales, ’New Look for the Riverina’ (Media Release, 30 November 2016)
<http://www.harness.org.au/media-room/news-article/?news_id=31676>.
163
Harness Racing NSW, ‘Wagga Development on Track’ (Media Release, 7 April 2017)
<https://www.hrnsw.com.au/news/1660/wagga-development-on-track>.
164
McKinnon Design, ‘Expressions of Interest – Building and Earthworks New Harness Racing Facility
Wagga Wagga NSW (closed on 6 June 2016)
<https://www.australiantenders.com.au/tenders/272411/expressions-of-interest-eoi-building-and-earthworksnew-harness-racing-facility-wagga-wagga-nsw>.
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