An Act to sanction and to provide for the construction of a dam across the Tumut River at Blowering and works incidental thereto; to amend the Public Works Act 1912 in certain respects; and for purposes connected therewith.

1   Name of Act

This Act may be cited as the Blowering Dam Act 1951.

2   Work sanctioned

(1) 

(a)  The carrying out of the work described in the Schedule to this Act is hereby sanctioned.

(b)  The said work shall be deemed to be an authorised work within the meaning of the Public Works Act 1912, as amended by subsequent Acts.

(c)  The Water Conservation and Irrigation Commission is empowered to carry out the said work, and shall be the Constructing Authority for the same within the meaning of the said Act, as so amended, and shall enter into such contracts and take all such necessary steps for the proper execution thereof as such Authority may think proper.

(d)  The provisions of the Public Works Act 1912, as amended by subsequent Acts, sections thirty-four, thirty-five, thirty-six and thirty-seven excepted, shall apply to and in respect of the said work.

(2)  Without prejudice to the generality of subsection one of this section the provisions of section thirty-eight of the Public Works Act 1912, as amended by subsequent Acts, shall apply to and in respect of any contracts referred to in paragraph (c) of subsection one of this section.

3   (Repealed)

4   Estimated cost

The cost of carrying out the said work is estimated at forty-six million dollars and such estimated cost shall not, under any circumstances, be exceeded by more than ten per centum.

5   Amendment of Act No 45, 1912

For the purposes of this Act, but not otherwise, the following amendments shall be made in the Public Works Act 1912, that is to say:

(a)  section ninety-eight is amended by inserting in subsection three before the words “public works” the words “authorised works or”.

(b)  (Repealed)

Schedule

(Section 2)

(1)   

(a)  A dam across the Tumut River at Blowering about 11 miles upstream from the town of Tumut of a height sufficient to store about 1,300,000 acre feet of water, together with incidental works associated therewith.

(b)  A spillway and outlet works, together with incidental works associated therewith.

(c)  Re-location of existing roads, together with structures incidental thereto, and re-location or re-establishment of other existing services, including telephone lines and transmission lines.

(d)  Silt dams and weirs on the Tumut River and tributaries upstream of the storage to prevent siltation within the reservoir, and works necessary for the protection of the foreshores of the storage, if field investigations show these dams, weirs and works to be necessary and if they are carried out within the period referred to in clause 11 of the Schedule to the Blowering Dam (Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Authority) Act 1963.

(e)  Establishment of borrow areas for soil and gravel and quarries for rock and aggregates.

(f)  Construction of access and works roads together with structures incidental thereto.

(2)   The whole of the work described in this Schedule to be subject to such modifications as may be deemed desirable by the Constructing Authority.

Historical notes

The following abbreviations are used in the Historical notes:

Table of amending instruments

Blowering Dam Act 1951 No 24. Assented to 29.10.1951. This Act has been amended as follows:

Table of amendments

No reference is made to certain amendments made by the Decimal Currency Act 1965.