Environmental Management
- Environmental Management Strategy
- Environmental Management Plans
- Annual reporting
- Further Information
Environmental Management Strategy
Our environmental management strategy sets the framework for managing environmental impacts of the project.
Our commitment to environmental management for the Sugarloaf Pipeline project is to:
- Establish appropriate procedures for the project design, construction, commissioning and operation to the reasonable satisfaction of stakeholders and the wider community and in conformance with the Project Alliance Agreement and Approvals.
- Complete the project construction with no statutory environmental infringements, prosecutions or breach of conditions of Approvals.
- Design and construct the project in an environmentally sustainable manner and prevent pollution occurring as a result of Sugarloaf Pipeline Alliance activities.
- Enhance the environment, through appropriate design, construction and commissioning.
- Avoid, reduce or mitigate impacts on threatened species on Commonwealth or State lists, and comply with Victoria's Native Vegetation Framework.
- Achieve best practice environmental management as assessed by internal and external audit results.
Our Environmental Management Strategy is consistent with AS/NZS ISO 14001.
Environmental Management Plans
We are developing Environmental Management Plans for each section of the pipeline, detailing the actual alignment of the pipeline and our processes for managing environmental issues associated with the development and use of the pipeline in that section. These plans were a condition of approval of the project by the Minister for Planning.
The range of environmental programs addressed for each section of the pipeline are shown in the diagram below.
Endorsed Environmental Management Plans
Each plan must be endorsed by the Minister for Planning, or his delegate, following consultation with the Minister for Environment and Climate Change, or his delegate, prior to the commencement of works within the relevant pipeline section.
Plans have been completed and endorsed for the following sections of the Sugarloaf pipeline. Download the document as a PDF.
- Glenburn (PDF, 1.1mb)
- Goulburn River Pumping Station (PDF, 1.8mb)
- Killingworth (PDF, 1.4mb)
- Pipe storage - Yarra Ranges (PDF, 2.2mb)
- Sheoak (PDF, 1.2mb)
- Sugarloaf Reservoir - Goulburn Inlet (PDF, 812kb)
- Sugarloaf Reservoir - Pipe Storage (PDF, 2.7mb)
- Sugarloaf Reservoir (PDF, 1.9mb)
- Temporary Goulburn Access Track (PDF, 2.0mb)
- Toolangi State Forest (PDF, 969kb)
- Tunnel Portals (PDF, 1.0mb)
- Waterway Crossing Cat A - Kalatha Creek (PDF, 3.6mb)
- Waterway Crossing Cat A - Yea River at Castella (PDF, 5.5mb)
- Waterway Crossing Cat A - Yea River at Devlin Bridge (PDF, 3.3mb)
- Waterway Crossings - Category B (PDF, 643kb)
- Yarra Glen (PDF, 643kb)
- Yea to Devlin (PDF, 1.0mb)
The endorsed Environmental Management Plans can be inspected at Melbourne Water's offices at 100 Wellington Parade, East Melbourne. Please phone 131 722 to arrange access.
Annual reporting
In September 2008 the Federal Minister for the Environment approved the environment management strategy of the Sugarloaf Pipeline project (with conditions) under the Environment Protection and Conservation Biodiversity Act 1999. One of the conditions specified is that the Alliance provide an annual report to the Department for the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts (DEWHA) addressing how it has complied with the requirements of the Act.
Further information
You will need Adobe Acrobat to access the above PDF documents. 
