Hume Battery Energy Storage System Environmental Impact Statement Appendix F. Statement of Heritage Impacts Hume Battery Energy Storage System Statement of Heritage Impact IA213400_Hume BESS SOHI | Final 28 July 2020 Meridian Energy Australia Statement of Heritage Impact Meridian Energy Australia Statement of Heritage Impact Hume Battery Energy Storage System Project No: IA213400 Document Title: Statement of Heritage Impact Document No.: IA213400_Hume BESS SOHI Revision: Final Date: 28 July 2020 Client Name: Meridian Energy Australia Project Manager: Thomas Muddle Author: Deborah Farina File Name: IA213400 Hume BESS SOHI_Final Jacobs Group (Australia) Pty Limited ABN 37 001 024 095 Level 7, 177 Pacific Highway North Sydney NSW 2060 Australia PO Box 632 North Sydney NSW 2059 Australia T +61 2 9928 2100 F +61 2 9928 2444 www.jacobs.com © Copyright 2019 Jacobs Group (Australia) Pty Limited. The concepts and information contained in this document are the property of Jacobs. 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Introduction ............................................................................................................................................................ 1 1.1 Study area ............................................................................................................................................................................. 1 1.2 The Proposal ........................................................................................................................................................................ 1 1.3 Methodology ....................................................................................................................................................................... 3 1.4 Limitations and Assumptions ........................................................................................................................................ 3 1.5 Report outline ..................................................................................................................................................................... 3 1.6 Authorship and acknowledgements ............................................................................................................................ 4 2. Legislative context ................................................................................................................................................ 5 2.1 Federal Legislation ............................................................................................................................................................ 5 2.1.1 Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 ................................................................... 5 2.1.1.1 Commonwealth Heritage List ........................................................................................................................................ 5 2.1.1.2 National Heritage List ....................................................................................................................................................... 5 2.1.1.3 Register of the National Estate ...................................................................................................................................... 5 2.2 State legislation .................................................................................................................................................................. 5 2.2.1 Heritage Act 1977 ............................................................................................................................................................. 5 2.2.1.1 State Heritage Register .................................................................................................................................................... 6 2.2.1.2 Archaeological relics ......................................................................................................................................................... 6 2.2.1.3 Section 170 Heritage and Conservation Registers ................................................................................................. 6 2.2.2 Environmental Planning & Assessment Act 1979 .................................................................................................. 7 2.2.3 Local heritage ...................................................................................................................................................................... 7 2.3 Non-Statutory requirements .......................................................................................................................................... 7 2.3.1 The Burra Charter ............................................................................................................................................................... 7 2.3.2 Urbis, 2013, Conservation Management Plan (CMP), Hume Dam ................................................................... 7 3. Historical context ................................................................................................................................................... 8 3.1 History of Local Area ......................................................................................................................................................... 8 3.1.1 European settlement ........................................................................................................................................................ 8 3.1.2 The Mitchell family ............................................................................................................................................................ 8 3.1.3 Murray Water Storage ...................................................................................................................................................... 9 3.1.4 Construction of the Hume Dam .................................................................................................................................... 9 3.1.5 Modern modifications .................................................................................................................................................... 11 3.2 Physical Description ........................................................................................................................................................ 11 3.3 Heritage Database Searches ........................................................................................................................................ 13 3.3.1 Australian Heritage Database ...................................................................................................................................... 13 3.3.2 State Heritage Register .................................................................................................................................................. 13 3.3.3 Local Heritage ................................................................................................................................................................... 13 3.3.4 Section 170 Heritage ...................................................................................................................................................... 13 3.4 Literature review ............................................................................................................................................................... 14 IA213400_Hume BESS SOHI ii Statement of Heritage Impact 3.4.1 Urbis, 2013, Conservation Management Plan – Hume Dam ............................................................................ 14 4. Site visit ................................................................................................................................................................. 16 4.1 Personnel and timing ..................................................................................................................................................... 16 4.2 General observations ...................................................................................................................................................... 16 4.3 Results ................................................................................................................................................................................. 16 5. Significance assessment ................................................................................................................................... 21 5.1 Introduction ....................................................................................................................................................................... 21 5.1.1 Significance criteria ........................................................................................................................................................