Wongawilli Access Project

Our works crews and project team are back! Happy New Year Wongawilli!

Our primary focus for the coming month is to address the intersection at Jersey Farm Road. We have more stormwater pits and pipes to install, as well as road pavement and kerb and gutter construction.

We will also be tidying up some private stormwater connections and Telstra pit adjustments on the southern side of Wongawilli Road.

Cadifern are also back in action. They're currently working on the transition pieces, which connect the new and old water main sections. We're working towards getting testing and connection dates from Sydney Water by the end of this month.

Last week our works crews completed restoration works of the pavement at the Smiths Lane and Wongawilli Road intersection and at the temporary diversion road near the culverts towards Shone Avenue. These are interim works and we'll be coming back to finalise the road levels early next year.

Turf has been laid at Wongawilli Road and the crews have tidied up the site in preparation for the Christmas Shutdown.

We thank the Wongawilli community for their feedback, cooperation and support during the many challenges we all faced in 2020. From our families to yours, we wish you a safe and peaceful Christmas and New Year. You'll see us back on-site in early January 2021.

Asphalt Resurfacing Night Works tomorrow

Essential asphalt resurfacing works will occur tomorrow night at the Smiths Lane and Wongawilli Road intersection and at the temporary diversion road near the culverts towards Shone Avenue. This work is taking place at night to minimise impacts for road users. Traffic controllers will be on-site with some minor detours in place during the works. While we had hoped to obtain approvals from Sydney Water to lift the manhole lids at the Smiths Lane intersection during resurfacing works, these have yet to be provided. Given repairs are urgently needed, we decided to move ahead with resurfacing works and return to the intersection at a later date to lift the manhole lids.

In other news: south side driveways, storm water connections and turf!

We're happy to let you know that today, despite the weather, we poured the concrete for the final two driveways on the south side of Wongawilli Road. Our plumber is on-site and will complete all storm water connections from residential properties by Thursday. Turf was scheduled for Thursday but will now be arriving on Friday due to the wet weather.

Civil Works

This week our two works crews will be restoring southern side property frontages. This includes work on driveways, stormwater connections and backfilling and turf behind the new kerb and gutter.

Service Works - Water main near Shone Avenue

Good progress with trenching works was made last week in preparation for the second water main installation near Shone Avenue. While the wet weather forecast isn't ideal, work on the water main installation will forge ahead whenever possible. We're hoping to have the water main installed before Christmas, to seek connection approval in the early New Year.

Heavy vehicle cartage

We’ve just been advised that cartage of material into the new Wongawilli subdivision, which was meant to start on 30 November 2020, was delayed and will now start from today, 10 December 2020. Truck movements will continue until 21 December 2020. Our crews will monitor traffic to ensure the safety of residents and workers.

Updated Construction Program

The community asked us to provide an easy read version of our construction program to clearly show project timelines and key milestones. Please see the latest Construction Program for Wongawilli as at December 2020. We regularly update this program to keep the community informed. All documents are also found in the "Documents" section of this webpage.

This week our crews are working on driveway connections following the completion of kerb and gutter works last week. Works include reinstatement of storm water outlets in the new kerb and gutter. Once the driveways are complete we'll undertake some minor landscaping works to tidy up before the Christmas break.

Cadifern are back on site and have restarted trenching for the water main near Shone Avenue. We'll be making good use of the weather to complete as much of this work as we can.

We're happy to let you know that Sydney Water repaired the leaking water main near Shone Avenue today. This means Cadifern will be back on site next week to restart the new water main works.

With stormwater works finished along the south side of Wongawilli Road, between Smiths Lane and Jersey Farm Road, our crews are now busy installing kerb and gutter ready in time for Christmas. We’re working with residents to manage vehicle access to properties during these works. We’ll also undertake minor landscaping to tidy things up, between the newly installed concrete kerb to property boundaries on the south side of Wongawilli Road.

We’re also working to get a better outcome at the Smiths Lane and Wongawilli Road intersection. While road maintenance was planned for last week, we’re working with Sydney Water to obtain approvals to raise the pits at the same time. This will provide a better finish. We’ll notify affected residents via a letter box drop prior to works, which should be finished by Christmas. Works will be undertaken by a contractor on Council’s behalf.

Water main works near Shone Avenue remain on hold, awaiting Sydney Water repairs to the leaking main. Works will restart as soon as repairs are complete. We’ll keep you posted.

As Council shuts down between Christmas and New Year, our last day on site this year will be Wednesday 23 December 2020. Until then, we’ll be hard at work. We’ll be back on Monday 4 January 2021 to start stormwater crossing and connection works to the main trunk line.

Kerb preparation

Update: Leaking water main

Sydney Water has attended site today and confirmed that the existing high pressure water main is leaking and have logged repair works as a high priority. While a timeframe for the works is not currently confirmed, Council and Cadifern will continue to work with Sydney Water to resolve this issue as soon as possible. Trenching works for the new watermain will restart when the repairs are complete and it is safe to do so.

On track with other works

On a more positive note, our crews are on track with the main trunk drainage immediately east of Jersey Farm Road and they’ve also been hard at preparations for December's kerb and gutter works.

Construction Program for Wongawilli Upgrade

The community asked us to provide an easy read version of our construction program to clearly show project timelines and key milestones. Please see Construction Program for Wongawilli as at November 2020. We'll regularly update this program to keep the community informed. All documents are found in the "Documents" section of this webpage.

Expected trenching works will not be proceeding today due to a suspected leak on the existing high pressure water main. Sydney Water has been contacted to rectify the issue. Cadifern will start trenching works as soon as it is safe to do so. We’ll keep the community updated as soon as we know more.