Heritage Golf & Country Club
This project is located on the Yarra River near Chirnside Park and has two eighteen hole golf courses (St John Course, south side—Jack Nicklaus; Henley Course, north side —Tony Cashmore), as well as impressive accommodation, entertainment facilities and urban residential subdivision.
All of the infrastructure and built form for around 400 residential sites is contained on the southern side of the river, adjacent to the St John Course. Located on the higher ground for views of the St John Course and the river, these comprise a mixture of densities ranging from detached housing on allotments varying from 300m2 to 800m2 in area, to medium density development, apartment living, hotels, conference facilities and club house.
PGA was engaged as the Engineers and Surveyors from the commencement of this project in the early concept stage, through rezoning, detailed design and surveying to its present completed status. It has been a project of significant challenge, not only technically from an engineering view point, but politically, as the land is contained in a very sensitive fauna and flora environment and in the two Local Government areas that are very conscious of maintaining such environments.
All of the golf course land is contained within the Yarra Valley and it is very picturesque, undulating land. Parts of the courses are subject to frequent flooding by the Yarra River and the St John Course also carries the passage of relatively contaminated stormwater from the Chirnside Main Drain, a Melbourne Water open channel, causing additional flooding in the lower reaches from time to time.
All of the infrastructure and built form for around 400 residential sites is contained on the southern side of the river, adjacent to the St John Course. Located on the higher ground for views of the St John Course and the river, these comprise a mixture of densities ranging from detached housing on allotments varying from 300m2 to 800m2 in area, to medium density development, apartment living, hotels, conference facilities and club house.
PGA was engaged as the Engineers and Surveyors from the commencement of this project in the early concept stage, through rezoning, detailed design and surveying to its present completed status. It has been a project of significant challenge, not only technically from an engineering view point, but politically, as the land is contained in a very sensitive fauna and flora environment and in the two Local Government areas that are very conscious of maintaining such environments.
All of the golf course land is contained within the Yarra Valley and it is very picturesque, undulating land. Parts of the courses are subject to frequent flooding by the Yarra River and the St John Course also carries the passage of relatively contaminated stormwater from the Chirnside Main Drain, a Melbourne Water open channel, causing additional flooding in the lower reaches from time to time.
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Achievements have included :
- Flooding of the Yarra Valley was controlled through the greens, tees and fairways and these were not to be inundated every year when the Yarra breaks its banks.
- Inclusion of Melbourne Water in a “partnering” approach to the project at the very early stages, even before and during the rezoning process.
- Water body solutions involving—
- Creation of a series of major lakes fed by the Chirnside Main Drain during normal rainfall events and incorporating a nutrient stripping pond in the upper reaches of the project to improve the quality of the water being received from it.
- Other lakes within the system used for irrigation storage purposes including one that will store treated effluent from on site sewage treatment.
- A number of other wetland lakes at the lower reaches of the lake system which further enhance the quality of water prior to its entry into the Yarra River.
- Significant enhancement of water quality over that which was previously deposited into the Yarra, at the same time providing the project with a very valuable resource for the irrigation of the courses.
- On-site sewerage treatment providing the added advantage of treated effluent for irrigation.
- Construction of gravity reticulation sewers around the residential and club precincts to a raw sewage pumping station from where a rising main connects to the treatment facility.
- Treated effluent feed to one of the lakes within the lower reaches of the St John Golf Course.
- All of the design and documentation of the lakes system, the sewerage system, road and drainage facilities, water supply and electricity reticulation.
- All the survey work on the site which includes detailed mapping of the whole project by both ground means, and photogrammetric means, setting out of the whole golf course and coordination of principal elements of same, re-establishment of title boundaries, preparation of Plans of Subdivision and pegging of individual allotments. The plans of subdivision are complex since they all include a number of Bodies Corporate that are often inter related with a mixture of restrictions and responsibilities to properly represent the interests and liabilities of various categories of owners and/or members.
PGA has undertaken :