The site of the works was the Ganinyi, Girriyoowa and Yiyili Communities located 170km east of Fitzroy Crossing in Western Australia. Project Background The ATSIS Army Community Assistance Program (AACAP) is a partnership agreement between ATSIS, the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing (DHA), and the Army. It utilises the resources and expertise of the Army to provide support to ATSIS and DHA in the improvement of environmental health infrastructure in remote indigenous Communities. This is achieved through the improvement of housing, community access, primary health support facilities, infrastructure systems such as sewer and septic systems, water supply, roads and drainage. 19th Chief Engineer Works (19 CE Works) is the design and project management agency within the Australian Army and was appointed as Project Manager for this project. 19CE Works represented the Grantees, the Morra Warra Warra Council on behalf of the Communities for the delivery of the works.
The works comprised the following:
Methodology USA based its site staff on site by setting up a mobile accommodation camp in a location near to the communities, and crews were supplemented by the use of local labour and subcontractors. The construction of the gravity sewer and pumping stations was carried out by open trenching with excavators while the rising main construction was dug with the Astec 15t trencher. The trencher was able to excavate rapidly in the ground conditions encountered in this region which included some reasonably hard shale type materials and dry pindan soil. As with any projects carried out in remote areas the successful completion required a lot of up front planning to ensure all materials and equipment were available to site when required. The implementation was achieved through competent and experienced field staff.
