THE final stage in stopping erosion along one of Bathurst’s key urban waterways is being scheduled for the new year.
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Tenders are being called for regrading and stabilisation works at Hawthornden Creek.
The waterway runs between the back of Charles Sturt University and the entrance to Mount Panorama, through the front of the Flannery Centre, under Havannah Street and down through Jacques Park before it finally empties into the Vale Creek near the bottom of Rocket Street.
Bathurst Regional Council wants a suitably qualified contractor to construct three Schauberger sill structures, three stormwater outlet pools, one rock chute and two bed control structures and to do associated regrading, earthworks and site stabilisation.
According to an advertisement by council calling for tenders: “This project is the third and final stabilisation and rehabilitation works in Hawthornden Creek which intends to arrest erosion in this key urban waterway.
“The project is funded with the assistance of the NSW Government through Environmental Trust.”
The Environmental Trust funding comes in the form of a $170,000 grant.
It is being used to help carry out two important projects. The other is to restore the natural flora and fauna to the Boundary Road Reserve.
Bathurst MP Paul Toole said more than $4 million had been distributed to 49 projects statewide.
“The Hawthornden Creek rehabilitation project will restore almost three kilometres of vegetation along the creek and prevent erosion along the banks,” he said.
“The council also received funding for the Racing to Save the Mount Panorama Woodlands project, which will help the Boundary Road Reserve Landcare group to restore vegetation and undertake weed and pest control in the famous Mount Panorama precinct.”
Hawthornden Creek has been identified as being particularly vulnerable to erosion.
“There are deep head cuts in the banks and they are causing the migration of sediment down the system and into the Macquarie River,” Bathurst Regional Council sustainability strategy officer Deborah Taylor said.
“In the long term, the result could be changes to the habitat and it’s not good for native fish habitat.”
