Cross River Rail Project: Coordinator-General’s change report June 2017 The Department of State Development Copyright This publication is protected by the Copyright Act 1968. Licence This work is licensed by the Department of State Development under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) 3.0 Australia licence. To view a copy of this licence, visit: http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/ You are free to copy, communicate and adapt this publication, as long as you attribute it as follows: © State of Queensland, Department of State Development, June 2017. The Queensland Government is committed to providing accessible services to Queenslanders of all cultural and linguistic backgrounds. If you have difficulty understanding this publication and need a translator, please call the Translating and Interpreting Service (TIS National) on telephone 131 450 and ask them to contact the Queensland Department of State Development on (07) 3452 7100. 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Copies of this publication are available on our website at www.statedevelopment.qld.gov.au and further copies are available upon request to: Department of State Development PO Box 15517, City East, Queensland 4002. 1 William Street, Brisbane, Queensland, 4000 (Australia) Phone: 13QGOV (137468) Fax: 07 3220 6465 Email: [email protected] Web: www.statedevelopment.qld.gov.au D17/117738 Contents Synopsis ......................................................................................................... v 1. Introduction ............................................................................................ 8 2. About the project .................................................................................... 8 2.1. The proponent ........................................................................................8 2.2. The project .............................................................................................8 2.3. Project delivery .......................................................................................9 3. Change report process .......................................................................... 9 3.1. Application for proposed change.............................................................9 3.2. Proponent’s reasons for change ........................................................... 10 3.3. Public notification .................................................................................. 11 4. Project approvals ................................................................................. 12 4.1. Australian government approvals.......................................................... 12 4.2. Other State government approvals ....................................................... 12 4.3. Local government approvals ................................................................. 13 5. Evaluation of the change request......................................................... 13 5.1. Proposed environmental management framework ................................ 14 5.2. Land .....................................................................................................16 5.3. Noise and vibration ............................................................................... 27 5.4. Traffic and transport .............................................................................. 43 5.5. Air quality ..............................................................................................59 5.6. Visual amenity and lighting ................................................................... 68 5.7. Cultural heritage ................................................................................... 74 5.8. Social environment ............................................................................... 81 5.9. Economics ............................................................................................ 88 5.10. Water resources ................................................................................... 93 5.11. Hazard and risk .................................................................................. 104 5.12. Nature conservation ............................................................................ 107 5.13. Spoil management and waste ............................................................. 110 6. Conclusion ......................................................................................... 114 Appendix 1. Imposed conditions ........................................................... 115 Appendix 2. Coordinator-General’s recommendations ......................... 138 Acronyms and abbreviations ...................................................................... 140 Glossary ..................................................................................................... 142 Cross River Rail Project: Coordinator-General’s change report - iii - Figures Figure 5.1 Peak spoil and delivery vehicle movements ..................................... 47 Figure 5.2 Proposed Boggo Road Railway Station ............................................ 53 Figure 5.3 Proposed Woolloongabba Railway Station ....................................... 54 Figure 5.4 Proposed Albert Street Railway Station ............................................ 55 Figure 5.5 Proposed Roma Street Railway Station ........................................... 56 Figure 5.6 Proposed Roma Street intersection layout ....................................... 57 Tables Table 4.1 Subsequent approvals that may be required for the project .............. 13 Table 5.1 Revised tenure impacts .................................................................... 18 Table 5.2 Comparison of workforce parking at worksites ................................ 45 Table 5.3 Ambient air environment .................................................................. 60 Table 5.4 Comparison of the project and the changed project’s CBA ............... 88 Table 5.5 Modelled average daily rail users to 2036 ........................................ 92 Table 5.6 Comparison of groundwater drainage measures .............................. 96 Table 5.7 Estimated change in spoil quantity ................................................. 111 Cross River Rail Project: - iv - Coordinator-General’s change report Synopsis The original Cross River Rail Project (the project) comprised an 18 kilometre (km) link from Salisbury to Bowen Hills, Brisbane including 10 km of tunnel from Yeerongpilly under the Brisbane River and Central Business District (CBD). On 20 December 2012, the Coordinator-General approved the project subject to conditions and released his evaluation report (CGER) on the environmental impact statement (EIS) for the project. On 5 December 2016, the proponent, the State of Queensland represented by the Department of Transport and Main Roads (TMR), lodged an application for project changes with the Coordinator-General. The proposed changes to the project include: reduction of the proposed total length of the project, from 18 km to 10.2 km, including some alterations to the underground alignment of the tunnel reduction in the proposed extent of underground tunnelling from 10 km to 5.9 km changes to the southern and northern portal locations minor changes to the location of the proposed Albert Street, Boggo Road, Woolloongabba, Roma Street and Exhibition Railway Stations pedestrianisation of sections of Albert Street between Charlotte Street and Elizabeth Street changes to tunnel construction methods for some sections, from bored to mined reduction in the number of surface properties requiring acquisition from 108 to 29, with no residential properties now proposed for acquisition demolition of the Brisbane Transit Centre (BTC) (West) building due to the realignment of the Roma Street Railway Station change in the number of spoil placement locations from one (Swanbank) to five potential sites (Brisbane Airport, Swanbank, Pine Mountain, Larapinta and Port of Brisbane) During the public consultation period, 177 submissions were received on the application for project change—27 from public organisations, 130 from private submitters and 20 from state and local advisory agencies. The following is a summary of the main issues arising from my evaluation of the project changes. Land Compared to the project, the changed project generally reduces potential impacts on land use, tenure, land contamination, topography, geography and soils. To further reduce potential impacts from the changed project on topography, geology and soils, I have required the proponent to prepare an erosion and sediment control management plan to be submitted as part of the Outline Environmental Management Plan (OEMP) for my approval. To ensure certainty of geological conditions prior to construction,