West Dapto Package 3 – Cleveland development area

We're providing water and wastewater to an expected 4,500 new homes in the Cleveland development area, which is part of the West Dapto Urban Release Area (WDURA) and Adjacent Growth Areas (AGA).

This will require a new 3.8 kilometre drinking water main, about 10 kilometres of new wastewater pipes and we'll also be upgrading the existing wastewater pumping station on the corner of Fairwater Drive and Riverpark Way, Horsley.

Building new water and wastewater networks in the Illawarra enables new communities to grow. Sydney Water's South Region Delivery Team, D4C, is delivering this work.

Project timeframes

Lot	Construction timeframes	Details
Lot A1	May 2024 to August 2024	A new 365 metre drinking water main along Bong Bong Road.
Lot A2	September 2024 to May 2025	A new 3.4 kilometre drinking water main along Cleveland Road.
Lot B	March 2024 to May 2025	A new 8 kilometre gravity wastewater pipeline.
Lot C1	May 2024 to September 2025	An upgrade of the wastewater pumping station located on the corner of Fairwater Drive and Riverpark Way, Horsley
Lot C2	March 2024 to October 2024	A new 1.4 kilometre of gravity wastewater pipeline.
Lot C3	March 2024 to May 2024	A new 680 metre wastewater pressure main from the wastewater pumping station on the corner of Fairwater Drive and Riverpark Way to Bong Bong Road.

What you need to know

We have set up our main site compound on Cleveland Road, near the Daisy Bank Drive roundabout. This is where our main office and amenities are located. Other smaller satellite compounds will be set up within our work areas to enable staff parking, amenities, machinery as well as storage areas.

All impacted areas and properties will be restored as close as possible to pre-construction conditions. We’ll temporarily restore roads and footpaths immediately after construction and after the full pipeline has been built and tested, we’ll arrange for permanent restoration of those areas.

Work for this project may be noisy and disruptive. Residents may notice an increase in vehicle movements, noise, and dust around work areas. The South Region Delivery Team, D4C, will reduce these impacts as much as practicable while aiming to finish the project as quickly as we can.

Our work hours are:

7 am to 6 pm Monday to Friday
8 am to 1 pm Saturday
No work on Sundays and on public holidays.

We may need to do some work at night but we’ll let local residents know before we do.

Project approval

On 14 June 2013, the Minister for Planning and Infrastructure granted the following approvals under Part 3A of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979:

Concept approval to provide water and wastewater services for the West Dapto Urban Release Area (WDURA) and Adjacent Growth Areas (AGAs)
Project approval to provide water and wastewater services for the WDURA first release precincts.

On 6 January 2016, the Minister for Planning and Infrastructure granted a modification to the concept approval. This enabled the boundary of the concept approval to be aligned with the boundary of the project approval area. The modification also had the effect of removing equivalent or duplicate Minister's Conditions of Approval (MCoA). The project was then named 'Water and Wastewater Servicing of the West Dapto Urban Release Area precincts of Kembla Grange, Sheaffes/Wongawilli and West Horsley'.

Compliance

Sydney Water has developed a Compliance Tracking Program to track and report compliance against the MCoA for Package 3. This program describes compliance responsibilities and provides a clear and consistent format for demonstration of compliance.

Approval documents