Description
This ancillary facility is located to the west of the interchange at Woombah between stations 94.9 and 95.5, adjacent
to section 5 site 6. The site is located on Lot 8 DP 777988.
The site is currently rural land. Surrounding land use includes rural residential activities, forested land and the
adjoining Mororo Creek Nature Reserve. Rural residential activities are located on the opposite side of the highway,
around Iluka Road.
The site consists of an area of regenerating Swamp Sclerophyll Forest, however, is predominantly low, grazed
paddock. Swamp sclerophyll forest is also present in the adjacent Mororo Creek Nature Reserve, where habitat
critical to the survival of koalas is also present. Field investigations identified koala scats on the boundary with the
nature reserve.
Mororo Creek runs through the ancillary facility, with a riparian zone comprising Swamp Sclerophyll Forest (TEC),
however remainder of site mostly cleared.
Access to the site is via the existing Pacific Highway. Access to the ancillary facility would be via the construction
corridor.
Figure 31 shows the environmental constraints surrounding the ancillary facility site.
Ancillary facility uses
Main site compound (construction)
Batch plant (construction)
Plant workshop (construction)
Material storage (construction)
http://www.rms.nsw.gov.au/documents/projects/northern
http://www.rms.nsw.gov.au/documents/projects/northern-nsw/woolgoolga
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to-ballina/w2b-section-2-halfway
halfway-creek-glenugie-cemp-appendix-b9.pdf
b9.pdf