Description
This project involved the route selection, assessment, construction, and impact mitigation program for the Pacific Highway bypass of Bulahdelah.
Our Role
NOHC conducted the Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal cultural heritage assessment and management program for all stages of the project from route selection analysis, through an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), to management and impact mitigation. Some of the project issues included stakeholder consultation, the assessment and management of significant places and associated cultural values, and the management and interpretation of a former alunite mine and processing complex and a former home site of Rachael Henning.
Features
Route selection analysis, Aboriginal community and stakeholder consultation, archaeological survey and site recording, specialist scarred tree assessment program, EIS preparation, conservation management plans, ethno-historic and oral history investigation into reported burials, archaeological test and salvage excavation programs, Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal artefact analysis, alunite mine complex archival recording program, historic site management plans, interpretation master plan, monitoring of construction impact.
