Project overview
The Waimea Community Dam is a 53 m-high concrete face rockfill dam (CFRD) located on the Lee River, in the Tasman District.
The dam is a multipurpose water storage providing managed release of water into the Waimea River for environmental release, water supply, aquifer recharge and irrigation.
Tonkin + Taylor has been involved in this project since the early 2000s and provided specialist dam engineering and consultancy services from pre-feasibility to detailed design. This included Stage 1 (Concept verification), Stage 2 (Contractual and Procurement Strategy), Stage 3 (Design to support resource consent), and Stage 4 (Detailed design to construction level).
Our role in this project has embraced work for several clients under two separate ECl and value engineering processes. This included partnering with international CFRD experts, the ECI contractor and engaging WSP-Opus as Mechanical & Electrical (M&E) engineering sub-consultant.
Services Continued:
- Mapping of defect orientations with stereographic plots of defects for kinematic stability assessments.
- Detailed interpretative geotechnical reporting.
- Concept scoping and prefeasibility studies including site selection, feasibility studies and inputs into construction cost estimation and methodology with the support of Fletcher Construction (as part of Stage 3), and FHTJV (as part of Stage 4).
- Procurement strategy advice.
- Design and specialist advice to support resource consent application (Stage 3).
- Detailed design and construction issue documentation (Stages 3 and 4).
