Cr Gavin Jones
June 26, 2017
The South Burnett Regional Council will spend $24.58 million on road maintenance and capital works in 2017-18.
Here’s where the money will be spent:
- $712,000 on Blackbutt drainage, kerbing and chanelling; some work will also be undertaken in Kingaroy’s CBD
- $682,000 on replacing existing bridges at Ironpot and Stonelands with culverts
- $130,000 on rural road pipe and culvert renewals
- $100,000 on replacement of urban road gully pits
- $2,848,000 on gravel resheeting rural roads, and sealing Murphy Road
- $430,000 on cycleways between Cairns and Chester Streets, Nanango; Drayton and Elk Streets, Nanango; and Stephens Street and Dutton Street, Murgon
- $2,000,000 on reseals of various roads
- $1,475,000 of TIDS and R4R funds on sealing Memerambi Barkers Creek Road, widening and overlaying Kumbia Road, and SafeST works at Wondai, Taabinga and Kumbia State Schools
- $1,910,000 of Works 4 Queensland funds on pavement rehabilitation at Crumpton Drive and Silverleaf Road; shoulder resheeting on Ellesmere Road; resurfacing the Kingaroy Town Hall laneway; and concrete footpaths at Fitzroy and King Streets in Nanango, Coulson Street in Blackbutt and Scott Street in Wondai
- $2,260,000 of Roads To Recovery funds on widening and overlaying Wattlecamp Road, and sealed road pavement rehabilitation on various roads
- $9,708,522 on general road maintenance across the region, including $2,763,115 on contracted Main Roads maintenance
- $1,982,000 will be spent on plant and equipment replacements
