Lakes Entrance Sand Management, Environment Protection, Sand Dredging, Tide Information, Dredging Pump Sand, Coastal Environment & Coastal Protection, Gippsland

Archaeological Heritage Impact Assessment for the Sand Redistribution Works, Lakes Entrance, East Gippsland

Volume 1: Aboriginal Heritage Values

The entrance at Lakes Entrance, constructed in the 19th century, connects the Gippsland Lakes system to Bass Strait. Completed in 1889 the associated coastal and lake shorelines have been modified by water flows through the entrance as well as wind and tidal processes on the coastal shorelines. Ongoing dredging is required to maintain the entrance to provide safe access through the entrance. In order to secure a safe and navigable entrance from the ocean to the Port of Lakes Entrance a project, the Lakes Entrance Sand Management Program (LESMP) is proposed which will replace existing infrastructure and equipment and will develop new strategies for maintaining the entrance and mitigating the effects of siltation.1

Gippsland Ports has therefore commissioned Perspectives Heritage Solutions Pty Ltd to undertake an archaeological assessment of the impact of the proposed ground disturbance associated with the LESMP project on Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal l archaeological heritage values on the subject land. This volume describes the assessment of the impact of the project on Aboriginal heritage values. The assessment comprised a background study, a survey of the study area to locate previously unrecorded Aboriginal Archaeological sites, an assessment of the impacts posed by the proposed works on Aboriginal archaeological values, and a report detailing the results of the study and survey, the management issues and recommendations for the protection of any Aboriginal heritage values during the development phase.