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MINISTER FOR URBAN SERVICES

LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY QUESTION

QUESTION NO. 226

Gungahlin Cemetery - Upgrading Projector .

Ms Szuty - asked the Minister for Urban Services:

In relation to the engagement of consultants through ACT Public Works to carry out Gungahlin Cemetery Landscape Improvements, 8, which include the installation of stormwater pipes

(1) . Had the Government been made, aware that the contour maps

used for the original drafting. of plans to enable the -

work .to proceed, were in fact incorrect.

(Z) Is it true that-after the excavation work had commenced

the consultants were informed by the. subcontractors that

.. .the proposed works would in fact .result in no

improvement due to the insufficient slope, on the land

and that a channel, dug for the pipes would end above

the natural drainage point.

(3) Who was responsible for making the decision to proceed

with the original proposal regarding the work and who

was responsible for redrafting the route that the pipes

would take, even though the need for such work does not

in fact exist..

(4) What is the total cost of this project..

(5) What would it have cost .to cancel the project when it.

was discoverod that the grade was insufficient to carry

the water downhill.

(s) Has DELP been able to determine whether this is an isolated case

what changes have been made in departmental processes. to ensure that the conduct of unnecessary public works does not occur in the future..

Mr Connolly - the answer to the Members question is as .

follows:

(1) Yes.- In the course of the project it became apparent that there were some anomalies in the survey base.

In formation used for this project.- :.The information was drawn. from survey contour plans prepared in 1978.

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