Project overview
The West Gate Tunnel project (the project) will deliver an alternative river crossing to the West Gate Bridge. It aims to remove trucks from residential streets.
The project includes:
- widening the West Gate Freeway
- twin tunnels between the West Gate Freeway and the Maribyrnong River
- a bridge over the Maribyrnong River and an elevated motorway with direct access to the port
- smart technology linking to other freeway management systems
- new and upgraded cycling and walking paths.
Construction on the project began in 2018.
To learn more, visit Victoria's Big Build(opens in a new window).
Our role in the West Gate Tunnel project
We're helping the project understand its environmental impacts and obligations under the Environment Protection Act 2017(opens in a new window). We're working with the project across all phases, including environmental assessment, early works, construction and operation.
We advise the project on matters relating to:
- air pollution
- contaminated land
- contaminated and waste soil management
- greenhouse gas emissions and resource efficiency
- human health
- land use and planning
- noise and vibration
- surface water and groundwater.
The West Gate Tunnel project and the environment
The Minister for Planning decided that an environment effects statement (EES) was required for this project.
The EES assesses the potential environmental impacts of the proposed development. It provides an approach to manage these impacts. The EES is available from Victoria's Big Build(opens in a new window).
Impacts relating to pollution and waste identified in the EES are:
- noise and vibration
- odour, dust and vehicle emissions
- run-off from construction sites
- impacts on groundwater
- hazardous waste
- waste soil.
We made a submission to the EES process:
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