Bowen Basin Regional Roads and Transport Group

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• Project story: Isaac Regional Council, concrete floodway construction program
• Regional Roads and Transport Group members
• Bowen Basin Regional Roads and Transport Group map
• Transport Infrastructure Development Scheme (TIDS) program details

Project story: Isaac Regional Council, concrete floodway construction program

Submitted by Sean Robinson, Manager Gaililee and Bowen Basin Operations, Isaac Regional Council.

To improve the resilience of Isaac Regional Council’s rural road network, council has over the past five years, been implementing a concrete floodway construction program, targeting areas that are repeatedly damaged in rain events. The project aims to construct 30m-long by 8m-wide concrete floodways at existing unsealed inverts, including rock protection and approach works where required. The project intent is to reduce the likelihood that where the road historically has washed away during rain events, a concrete structure is now in place to ensure the road continues to be passable.

In total there are 887 unsealed inverts across Isaac Regional Council’s rural road network with the prioritisation matrix considering: 

• number of times the site has been damaged as part of an activated event. 
• local priority from area overseer for damage incurred outside of activated events. 
• average daily traffic.
• percentage of heavy vehicles. 
• principal adjacent land utilisation. 

This year we were able to construct eight floodways across our network which brings the total floodways constructed under the program to a total of 40. To keep construction practices relatively simple and to achieve value for money, council’s standard drawing is utilised with minor tweaks made to suit the individual site requirements.

Total project cost $1,631,179.93

TIDS contribution $669,793.00

Regional Roads and Transport Group members

• Banana Shire Council
• Central Highlands Regional Council
• Isaac Regional Council
• Woorabinda Aboriginal Shire Council
• TMR’s Fitzroy and Mackay/Whitsunday Districts

Chair: Councillor Jane Pickels, Deputy Mayor, Isaac Regional Council
Deputy Chair: Councillor Rachael Cruwys, Deputy Mayor, Central Highlands Regional Council
Technical Committee Chair: Sean Robinson, Isaac Regional Council 
Technical Committee Deputy Chair: Tyronne Meredith, Central Highlands Regional Council 
Technical Coordinator: Alicia Ruhl, GBA Consulting Engineers
Transport Infrastructure Development Scheme (TIDS) 2024–25 Allocation: $4,608,600
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander TIDS 2024–25 Allocation: $80,758
Total number of projects: 12 

Bowen Basin Regional Roads and Transport Group map.

Bowen Basin Regional Roads and Transport Group (RRTG) Transport Infrastructure Development Scheme (TIDS) program details

The following information lists the RRTG TIDS 2024–25 works program by local government, with the project name and the year-to-date TIDS expenditure.

Banana Shire Council

Project name	Expenditure
Theodore - Moura Road, overlay asphalt	$1,237,708
Defence Road, form, widen, drainage, pavement and seal	$477,417

Central Highlands Regional Council

Project name	Expenditure
Bowen Basin RRTG, capability, development and technical coordination	$75,876
Wyntoon Road, pave and seal	$1,178,665
Capella Rubyvale Road, pave and seal	$310,512

Isaac Regional Council

Project name	Expenditure
Isaac area, various unsealed rural roads, construct floodways	$669,793
Saraji Road, rehabilitate pavement	$71,842
Peak Downs Mine Road, rehabilitate pavement	$539,573

Woorabinda Aboriginal Shire Council

Project name	Expenditure
Bore 3 Road (Woorabinda), construct to sealed standard	$50,000
Airport Communications Building Access, construct new road and drainage	$27,000
Various roads, rehabilitate pavement and drainage	$41,171
Rankin Street, Sewer Pump Station access, construct concrete pavement	$9617