Map of Nambucca Heads

Roads and Maritime providers has actually finished the 22 kilometre highway update from Nambucca Heads to Urunga. The task included building two new interchanges at Nambucca Heads and Ballards path and upgraded the existing Waterfall Method interchange at Raleigh. The $780 million task ended up being jointly funded because of the Australian and NSW governments. The project exposed to traffic on 22 July 2016.

Project back ground

Roadways and Maritime Services engaged Lend Lease to develop and develop the Nambucca Heads to Urunga upgrade. Significant work began on 15 January 2014 and was finished in July 2016. Final work are going to be finished in February 2017, weather condition permitting.

Operational sound monitoring and reporting

Roads and Maritime must fulfill particular sound criteria within the project endorsement for this upgrade task.

Those types of endorsement problems is prepare a review of the recommended Operational Noise Mitigation steps, that has been posted and introduced to the general public in Summer 2014. These criteria tend to be in line with a great many other parts of highway improvement.

On the basis of the results of forecasts along with responsibilities produced in environmentally friendly influence Assessment, Roads and Maritime has furnished a range of noise remedies, including reasonable noise pavement in parts and remedies at identified residences. The Operational Noise control Assessment Report can be obtained from task documents page.

Besides, roadways and Maritime solutions is required to undertake operational sound tracking examine real sound performance associated with the project against the sound performance predicted within the review. An Operational Noise Report is usually to be completed within one year of the project becoming operational. Roads and Maritime has engaged AECOM Australian Continent to complete the monitoring and report. Noise monitoring had been finished at the conclusion of 2016 in addition to report will be prepared. After the report is evaluated by roadways and Maritime and relevant Government Agencies, it'll be released on general public, expected in the 1st half 2017.

Should this latest report realize that the noise levels go beyond the sound requirements, roadways and Maritime is needed to undertake additional reasonable and possible noise mitigation actions.