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14 Business View Australia - March-April 2016

PUBLIC WORKS &

July 2016 ($4 million). Contractors are

on site now undertaking that work.

Council’s main water supply weir in

the Macquarie River in South Dubbo is

presently being upgradedwith a rockfill

ramp and fishway to make it both safer

for people and more environmentally

friendly for native fish species, again

with a contractor on site ($4 million).

And closer to the centre of town, the

Erskine Street Sewage Pump Station

is about to have its first major upgrade

since 1930 in the form of a new

overflow storage tank, odour control

works, new emergency generator and

improved vehicular access. A contract

for $7 million was let in March 2016

and work will be underway before the

middle of the year.

New Junction, New

Challenge

Somerecentprojectshavechallenged

theCity’s capabilities innewways, with

one project requiring Mr McLeod to

oversee the building of a new section

of railway line, a most unusual activity

for a Local Government authority to

become involved in.

North Dubbo is a major industrial

area in Western NSW which houses

the Dubbo Saleyards, a major export

abattoir, a major inter-modal transport

terminal and more than one hundred

othermixeduse industrial businesses.

The most direct entrance into North

Dubbo is at Boothenba Road adjacent

to a set of railway points called the