
With a 1.57 km flood levee proposed to be constructed along the Burnett River in Bundaberg East, the Department of Housing, Local Government, Planning and Public Works is now seeking community feedback.
Public consultation is now open on the project’s Ministerial Infrastructure Designation (MID) (planning) application and closes on Monday 4 November 2024.
According to the Department, a MID is a planning process for delivering certain types of community supporting infrastructure.
The process provides a streamlined way to:
- assess land use planning matters relating to the project proposal,
- consider advice from other state agencies and technical experts, and
- gather and consider input from the community.
You can visit the Ministerial Infrastructure Designations public register to read the latest project reports and make a submission, on or before Monday 4 November 2024.
Follow these steps to make a submission:
- Visit the Ministerial Infrastructure Designation website
- Scroll down to the Public Register
- Select the “Requests open for consultation” tab
- Select MID-0524-0846-Bundaberg East Levee
- Read about the project
- Click the ‘Make a Submission’ button
Read more about the project on the Department of Housing, Local Government, Planning and Public Works website here.
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Hello, Flood levies only provide some protection, with lower level Floods. By far the best solution is to assist rising water levels by expediating water masses to the ocean. This can be assisted through dredging of points of flow resistance and also installing efficient boom gates on all existing Weirs and Dams which directly hinder the escape of expanding and rising water levels. Expensive, yes. But so also is Flood damage to residences. Thankyou.
another person who thinks that Newton’s Laws can be beaten. ever had a good hard look at the Burnett River from the day of settlement till now, the way the river has been interfered, constricted further and further. even the people of settlement knew before 1880 dredging was useless as millions of tons of sand and silt came down with each flood and defeated that work. i was quite impressed at the size of “Snags” or trees that were uncovered during dredging operations. i wonder where those come from initially. do you know how much wet lands have disappeared. have a look at that 1883 town map of Bundaberg. sorry, flood plains and wet lands have to be restored and real estate people need to take a back seat.
a flood levee wont work. neither will dredging. bundaberg is at the end of the 3rd largest river catchment in queensland.
and it also in a hollow guess where water flows? into the hollows.
we also built homes and businesses on flood plains and then wonder why they get inundated. originally much of that land was farm land and it didnt matter much if it was flooded. the flooding is what made it productive land all the nutrient rich silt that was deposited restored the land.
there was a reason houses used to be high blocked or on low stumps rather than slab on ground. 1 they were cooler in summer and it made them resistant to minor floods.
they didn’t clad both sides of wall frames so it could be cleaned and let dry they used timber boards and fibre cement sheet not plasterboard which could handle getting wet and be cleaned
we need to work with the local environment not against it.