July 15, 2012
The South Burnett Regional Council will spend more than 58 per cent of its 2012-13 Budget repairing and upgrading the region’s roads, water supply and waste water infrastructure.
The $42 million in SBRC outlays will be topped this year up by an extra $47 million from the State and Federal governments for flood damage repairs.
This will bring total spending on infrastructure repairs and improvements to $89 million over the coming 12 months – a record for the four-year-old Council.
But even without the one-off flood assistance monies, the forecast expenditure represents a 20.5 per cent increase on last year’s outlays.
In handing down the SBRC’s 2012-13 Budget last Wednesday, July 11, South Burnett Mayor Wayne Kratzmann said that “during the election campaign the state of our roads was clearly the number one priority raised by South Burnett residents”.
He said this year’s Budget was “acting on our promise to deliver”.
Apart from roads, the Council will also spend $10.7 million on regional water and waste water assets.
This represents the start of a multi-year program to fully upgrade the region’s 70-year-old water and sewerage infrastructure, which is rapidly approaching the end of its working life.
The Council estimates the total cost of fully upgrading these assets could run as high as $80 million.
“No one pays much attention when when you turn on your tap and water comes out or your toilet flushes properly,” the Mayor told the Budget meeting, “but everyone notices when they don’t. So we need to work on this area to ensure that everything keeps working as it should into the future.”
Over the coming year the Council will also spend $2.2 million on plant and vehicle replacement
The following South Burnett infrastructure projects have been scheduled over the coming year:
Roadworks
Bridges – $535,000
- Investigate & design a timber bridge over Sandy Creek in Drayton Street, Nanango – $160,000
- Crownthorpe/Kapernick Bridge (Crownthorpe) – $375,000
Car Parks – $7,000
- Wheatlands School – $7000
Culverts & Inverts – $100,000
- Alice Creek Road (Alice Creek) – $25,000
- Evans Road (Ballogie) – $45,000
- Rackemanns Road (Wooroolin) – $30,000
Drainage – $220,000
- Jones St (Nanango) – $25,000
- Premier Drive (Kingaroy) – $35,000
- Tessmann Road North (Kingaroy) – $160,000
Intersection Improvements – $710,000
- Millis Way (Golf Entrance Nanango) – $18,000
- Roberts Street (Kumbia Apex Park) – $7000
- Scott/Hathaway Intersection Reshape (Benarkin) – $50,000
- Transmitter Road/Bunya Highway (Tingoora/Wooroolin) – $60,000
- Peterson Drive/Kingaroy Cooyar Intersection Improvements – $250,000
- Peterson Drive/Royles Road Intersection (Kingaroy) – $25,000
- D’Aguilar Highway/Peterson Drive (Kingaroy) – $300,000
Kerb & Channel – $100,000
- Albert Street (Kingaroy) – $10,000
- Beresford Street (Proston) – $5000
- Burnett Street (Nanango) – $10,000
- Douglas Street (Blackbutt) – $13,981
- Fredrick Street (Wooroolin) – $3356
- Hodge Street South (Wondai) – $18,221
- Moreton Street (Wondai) – $13,679
- Walter Road (Kingaroy) – $20,000
- Webster Street (Kingaroy) – $5763
Minor Sealing – $135,000
- Crawford Road (Crawford) – $26,000
- Hodge Street North (Wondai) – $6000
- Hospital Terrace (Nanango) – $8000
- Crumpton Drive (Blackbutt) – $70,000
- Lucas Road (Kingaroy) – $25,000
Pavement Rehabilitation/Road Widening etc.- $4,562,616
- Kumbia Brooklands Road (Kumbia) – $1,000,000
- Radunz Road (Kingaroy) – $271,000
- TH Burns & Coverty Road (Ballogie) – $420,000
- Hivesville Road (Hivesville/Marshlands) – $154,500
- Appin Street West Bypass (Nanango) – $50,000
- Crownthorpe Road (Crownthorpe) – $20,000
- Kumbia Brooklands Road (Kumbia) – $220,000
- Manumbar Road (Nanango) – $480,000
- Blackbutt-Crows Nest Road (Blackbutt) – $18,000
- Gayndah Hivesville Road (Hivesville/Abbeywood) – $50,000
- Memerambi Barkers Creek Road (Nanango) – $292,000
- Nanango Brooklands Road (Nanango) – $607,116
- Crumpton Drive (Blackbutt) – $300,000
- Kearneys Road (Kumbia/Haly Creek) – $300,000
- Malar Road (Booie) – $200,000
- Transmitter Road (Tingoora/Wooroolin) – $100,000
- Complete road widening Youngman Street (Kingaroy) – $80,000
SafeST (Safe School Transport) Projects – $170,000
- Kumbia State School (Pedestrian Crossing) – $25,000
- Windera State School (Set down) – $45,000
- Tanduringie State School (Set down) – $100,000
Signage – $75,000
- Signage Replacements (across region) – $75,000
Street Lighting – $10,000
- Dalkeith Street (Nanango) – $10,000
In addition…
- $47 million will be spent on flood repairs through NDRRA funds
- $1 million will be spent on complementary works to be undertaken in conjunction with flood repair works which aren’t covered by NDRRA grant funds
- $5.98 million will be spent on general road maintenance
- $2.10 million will be spent on Council’s road resealing program
- $2,41 million will be spent on Main Roads works
Water Supply and Waste Water Services
Water Mains Rehabilitation & Replacement $1.696M
- Blackbutt – $101,504
- Kingaroy – $750,000
- Murgon – $143,861
- Nanango – $319,775
- Proston Rural – $140,000
- Wondai – $241,377
Water Treatment Plant Improvements/Upgrades $2,360M
- Blackbutt – $12,500
- Kingaroy – $2,060,000
- Murgon – $127,000
- Nanango – $62,000
- Proston – $36,500
- Wondai – $62,000
Pump Station Upgrades $175,000
- Blackbutt Supply – $15,000
- Murgon Supply – $150,000
- Nanango Supply – $10,000
Reservoir Improvements $55,000
- Blackbutt Supply – $10,000
- Kingaroy Supply – $20,000
- Kumbia Supply (demolish old reservoir) – $15,000
- Wondai Supply – $10,000
Rising Main Replacement $2.3M
- Rising main replacement from Gordonbrook to Kingaroy – $2.3M
Other Building Improvements $355,000
- New Shed (Kingaroy) – $300,000
- Land Acquisition – $55,000
Sewerage Mains Rehabilitation and Replacement $1.635M
- Blackbutt – $50,000
- Kingaroy – $685,000
- Murgon – $275,000
- Nanango – $200,000
- Wondai – $425,000
Sewerage Treatment Plant Improvements/Upgrades $1,542M
- Blackbutt – $112,500
- Kingaroy – $1,100,000
- Murgon – $73,500
- Nanango – $92,500
- Wondai – $163,500
Sewerage Pump Stations Upgrades $170,000
- Kingaroy – $25,000
- Murgon – $70,000
- Nanango – $75,000
Other Building Improvements $75,000
- Shed (Murgon) – $75,000
Telemetry Upgrades – $60,000
Plant and Vehicle Replacement – $2.215M
