Expert Witness Advice, Adelaide Desalination Plant

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Hallet Cove, SA

A South Australian Government and SA Water initiative, the desalination plant will provide a climate independent water source that will improve Adelaide’s long-term water security by supplementing and reducing the reliance on traditional sources such as the River Murray. As the project has been declared a Major Project by the government under the Development Act, it requires numerous comprehensive and rigorous environmental studies of the proposed site at Port Stanvac Oil Refinery for the project to be undertaken and to inform the design outcomes.

Hemisphere Design has teamed with GHD to deliver an Environmental Impact Assessment for the proposed Adelaide Desalination Plant. Hemisphere Design was responsible for preparing the visual impact assessment; assessing the potential landscape and visual implications of the proposed development.

Hemisphere Design has undertaken an initial appraisal of the visual physical and sensory characteristics of the existing landscape of the preferred and alternative sites and immediate surroundings from within the application site, as well as from five key viewpoints that were visited.

Hemisphere Design has completed a Landscape and Visual Assessment Report which identifies the likely visual impact of each development proposal and the potential to integrate or detract from the existing visual setting. The information is captured and recorded in tabulated form, photographs and illustrative diagrams which depict the likely zone of visual influence (ZVI) from twenty four viewpoint locations, including offshore, in which the proposed development is likely to have an effect on visual amenity. A summary concludes the study findings and makes recommendations on potential treatments that, where necessary, may assist in ameliorating the likely visual impacts.

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• Expert Witness Advice, Adelaide Desalination Plant, Hallet Cove, SA