Woodlawn Wind Farm - Visual Impact Assessment

Photomontages

Woodlawn WindEnergy Joint Venture has
commissioned URS Australia Pty Ltd (Environmental and Planning Consultants) to carry out an assessment of visual impacts as part of the environmental assessment process.

URS have prepared “photomontages” to show how the turbines may look from five nearby locations. The visual assessment specialists took the following steps to prepare the photomontages.

Step 1:

Five viewpoints were selected based on
desktop and field analysis. Photographs
were taken from these viewpoints and
information was collected including
camera location, view angle, focal
length of lens (field of view) and
direction of view.

Step 2:

A 3D model was created using a computer
program that shows the landform as well
as the turbines in their proposed locations.

Step 3:

The photograph and information collected
in Step 1, was merged with the 3D model
in Step 2, to produce a 3D generated view.

Step 4:

The turbines were given appropriate colour,
texture and shadows to create a realistic
image of how the turbines will be seen in
the landscape.

Views

Please note these visual simulations were updated on 1 June 2004.

The previous visual simulations showed all turbines with a hub height of 78m.

These updated visual simulations show a combination of turbines with 60m and 78m hub heights.

Viewpoint 2 View from Bungendore Road from near the Collector Road intersection looking southwest toward site with scattered trees in mid-distance and ridgeline forming skyline.

Viewing Distance 4.4 km.

Viewpoint 19 Elevated valley view from Collector Road looking southeast toward site with open paddocks in foreground and bands of trees in mid-distance to background. Part of ridgeline visible above trees.

Viewing distance of 7.5 km.

Viewpoint 6 View from Taylors Creek Road
looking east toward site with paddocks in
foreground, rows of trees in mid-distance and ridgeline forming the skyline.

Viewing distance of approximately 4 km.

Viewpoint 20 View from Badcoe Rest Area south of Collector, on Federal Highway, looking east toward site with Lake George in foreground and mid-distance and ridgeline forming background to site.

Viewing distance of approximately 18 km.

Viewpoint 11 View from Collector Road east of Woodlawn mine site looking southwest toward site with grassed paddock in foreground and tailing dams visible between site ridgeline in background.

Viewing distance approximately 4 km.