The Berejiklian government has been forced to re-examine the significance of Indigenous culture that will be destroyed by raising the height of Warragamba Dam after an outcry from traditional owners and its own agencies | p_hannam
The Berejiklian government has been forced to re-examine the significance of Indigenous culture that will be destroyed by raising the height of Warragamba Dam after an outcry from traditional owners and its own agencies.shows only 27 per cent of the likely affected flood zone had been surveyed for Indigenous heritage.
"I don't know why the government is persisting in using Niche," Aunty Sharyn Halls, an elder with the Gundungurra Aboriginal Heritage Association, said. "We have absolutely no faith in them." Despite these findings and its partial reach, the report deemed potential impacts on Indigenous culture of inundating some 5280 hectares during floods to be "relatively minor" as the area had been affected in the past, including from the creation of the original Warragamba Dam in the 1950s.
Lake Burragorang from above. The lake sits behind Warragamba Dam, and would potentially fill as much as 17 metres higher if the government proceeds with plans to raise the dam's wall height. A survey found 334 Indigenous sites in the new flood zone during a study that examined only 27 per cent of the at-risk area.Stuart Ayres, the minister of Western Sydney overseeing the Warragamba project, declined to comment specifically on the Indigenous heritage issues.
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