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Construction work to install missing roads and drainage systems on the Memerambi Estate is expected to be completed within a month, weather permitting<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Roads & Drainage Portfolio chair Cr Spud Jones<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

June 16, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n

Memerambi Estate property owners should be able to move into their partially completed homes and begin bringing them up to scratch by the end of July.<\/p>\n

Roads portfolio chair Cr Spud Jones told Wednesday’s Council meeting contractors have been continuing roadworks and earthworks at the site.<\/p>\n

This work is expected to take another month, weather permitting, after which the estate will finally be habitable.<\/p>\n

Contractors have been building missing internal roads and installing a detention basin and drainage systems to handle stormwater issues on the estate.<\/p>\n

Property owners were left in the lurch when the estate’s developer Summit View Meritor Pty Ltd went into liquidation in August 2013.<\/p>\n

The developer had used a loophole in the former Kingaroy Shire Planning Scheme to build houses on the estate – which is one of the region’s historical sub-divisions – in advance of building infrastructure.<\/p>\n

The developer was paid in full when houses on the Estate reached 80 per cent completion, and had planned to use this money to fund the infrastructure works.<\/p>\n

But when the scheme collapsed, owners found they were unable to move into their houses because the missing infrastructure rendered the area uninhabitable.<\/p>\n

The Council reached an arrangement with property owners last year to build the missing infrastructure itself.<\/p>\n

It declared the estate a “Benefitted Area” and borrowed the $2.1 million required to carry out the work from Queensland Treasury.<\/p>\n

Owners will repay their share of the cost, plus interest, over 10 years.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The South Burnett’s bridge network should almost be back to to full working order within the next twelve months.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Council embarked on an ambitious bridge replacement program in late 2013 when a post-flood inspection of the South Burnett’s bridge network disclosed six were in such poor shape they had to have immediate load limits imposed on them to ensure public safety.<\/p>\n

Three dual-lane bridges were also reduced to single lanes for similar reasons, while another seven were assessed to be nearing the end of their working lives.<\/p>\n

At the time, former Mayor Wayne Kratzmann estimated the cost of replacing or rehabilitating all 16 bridges was “upwards of $10 million”.<\/p>\n

While the Council didn’t have the funds to tackle all the bridges immediately, Councillors decided to embark on a multi-year program to fix the problem.<\/p>\n

At Wednesday’s SBRC meeting, Cr Jones reported a recent tender awarded to Professional Bridge Services to upgrade timber bridges at Webbers Creek, Manar, Stumckes Road and the Gayndah-Hivesville Road was progressing well.<\/p>\n

The Webbers Creek bridge was rehabilitated last week, and Cr Jones expected the other three would also be finished in coming weeks.<\/p>\n

Cr Jones said tenders are now being called to replace two more timber bridges – one at Kings Bridge Road in Wyalla and the other at Silverleaf Road in Marshlands – and he expected a contractor would be appointed at next month’s Council meeting.<\/p>\n

This will leave about four bridges still to be attended to, and they are likely to be addressed in the up-coming 2016-17 Budget.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The Tingoora-Chelmsford Road should reopen to normal traffic next week if everything goes to plan, Cr Jones said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A lengthy diversion has been in place on the road for several weeks while Council staff have been realigning a dangerous corner near Tingoora.<\/p>\n

Weather permitting, normal traffic will be restored shortly.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Drivers wanting to travel between Blackbutt and Crow’s Nest will need to use an alternate route next Tuesday, June 21.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A section of the Blackbutt-Crow’s Nest Road between Haynes Kite Millar Road and Ogilvie’s Road will be closed between 6:30am and 3:00pm that day.<\/p>\n

The closure will allow Council staff to carry out tree-lopping.<\/p>\n

The work is part of an extensive upgrade of the road, which is being widened and reconstructed because of increasing traffic volumes.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/strong><\/h2>\n

A sharp dip at the intersection of Pine and Coulson Streets in Blackbutt will soon be a thing of the past.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Council work crews will be reconstructing the southern section of Pine Street between the medical centre and the police station as part of the town’s CBD stormwater drainage project.<\/p>\n

As well as eliminating the dip, the reconstruction will improve parking in the area.<\/p>\n

The stormwater project is currently at John Street and will continue up the hill towards Pine Street in coming weeks.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Council grader crews will be tackling dirt roads in three areas over the next four weeks.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Crews have been assigned to the Greenview, Runnymede and Neumgna localities.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the widening of two sharp crests on Weens Road north-west of Kingaroy, which have forced drivers to move onto the road\u2019s unsealed shoulders to avoid head-on collisions, is almost complete.<\/p>\n

Apart from widening the crests from single to dual lanes and building tapered approaches, Council work crews have also sealed a deformed section between the two crests.<\/p>\n

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Draft plans to remediate a long-standing problem area at Tessmann’s Road North have been drawn up, Cr Jones told Wednesday’s meeting. <\/strong><\/p>\n

The area, which is home to the endangered Phebalium distans plant, is prone to flooding in wet weather due to stormwater run-off from a nearby housing estate.<\/p>\n

But Cr Jones warned there would be no immediate action on the project.<\/p>\n

This was because further consultation is needed, and any work will also need the approval of State and Federal Government agencies who have an interest in the area.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Plans to use recycled water from Kingaroy’s new Waste Water Treatment Plant for irrigating the town’s sporting fields are advancing.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cr Jones said officers are working on a design for a new water main that will connect the plant to tanks located at the Kingaroy Cricket Grounds next to Beangrowers.<\/p>\n

No construction date has yet been set.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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