Raising Cooma Levee - Concept Design and Feasibility Study

Project Type: Concept design and feasibility study

Project Location: Cooma

Funding: NSW Government Grant

What are we doing?

To reduce the impacts of flooding on our community, Council is undertaking a project to produce a concept design and feasibility assessment report that identifies a preferred levee option for Council to progress to a detailed design.

Stage 1 – Selection of preferred levee option

• Collection and review of available data, previous studies and investigations
• Utilities and constraints assessment
• Levee design options
• Hydraulic and economic analyses of levee design options including freeboard, third party impacts, consideration of land matters, internal drainage issues and preliminary solutions
• Community, agency and council consultation
• Assessment and selection of preferred levee option report

Stage 2 - Detailed assessment of the preferred levee option

• Layout survey and geotechnical assessment
• Development of refined concept designs of preferred option
• Detailed hydraulic and economic assessment of preferred option, reviewing damages, internal drainage solutions and land matters program including easements and/or acquisition requirements
• Preliminary Environmental Assessment
• Community and agency consultation
• Finalise preliminary levee designs
• Finalise concept design and feasibility assessment report

Latest Update - June 2025

• Preparing for Community Consultation
• Work on stage one of this project has commenced
• The tender has been awarded and contract signed