{"id":1936,"date":"2015-04-24T03:23:09","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T03:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/2015\/04\/24\/defence-completes-demolition-of-omega-tower-at-darriman\/"},"modified":"2015-04-24T03:23:09","modified_gmt":"2015-04-24T03:23:09","slug":"defence-completes-demolition-of-omega-tower-at-darriman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/defence-completes-demolition-of-omega-tower-at-darriman\/","title":{"rendered":"DEFENCE COMPLETES DEMOLITION OF OMEGA TOWER AT DARRIMAN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>April 23, 2015<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Defence has successfully demolished the Omega communication tower on the former Naval Transmission Site at Darriman.<\/p>\n<p>Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Defence and Federal Member for Gippsland Darren Chester said the demolition was completed without incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur primary concern was to make sure that the demolition was conducted safely, and I am pleased to say that we have achieved this goal,\u201d Mr Chester said.<\/p>\n<p>For safety reasons, traffic on the nearby South Gippsland Highway was halted for a short period while the tower demolition occurred.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like to thank the local community for their patience,\u201d Mr Chester added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe neighbouring landholders, local council and Victoria Police have been very cooperative and helpful in this project.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope that we have managed to complete this project with minimal disruption to the local community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Representatives from Victoria Police, Worksafe and Defence attended the demolition to observe, record and support the project.<\/p>\n<p>Defence contractor, Liberty Industrial Pty Ltd, cut selected cables by explosive charge, then the tower structure was destabilised and it collapsed upon itself in four large sections.<\/p>\n<p>Now that the Omega tower has been demolished, Liberty Industrial will clear the site of materials, and in due course, Defence will dispose of the site.<\/p>\n<p>Video footage of the demolition can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darrenchester.com\">www.darrenchester.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Images are available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><em>April 23, 2015<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Defence has successfully demolished the Omega communication tower on the former Naval Transmission Site at Darriman.<\/p>\n<p>Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Defence and Federal Member for Gippsland Darren Chester said the demolition was completed without incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur primary concern was to make sure that the demolition was conducted safely, and I am pleased to say that we have achieved this goal,\u201d Mr Chester said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[154,270],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}