More than $43.5 million in public works set to transform the Brewarrina Shire region over next 12 months and beyond

Brewarrina Shire Council are set to undertake their most extensive program of works in the community’s history, investing more than $43.5 million to shape a vibrant and contemporary future for its residents and visitors.

The extensive schedule of works, including major developments, new facilities, transformations of public spaces, widespread road upgrades, infrastructure advancements, and more, will take place across Brewarrina, Goodooga, Weilmoringle, Gongolgon and many of the places in between, with some of the projects already underway.

Brewarrina Shire Council General Manager David Kirby said the next 12 months will see the largest investment into the community this shire has ever experienced, and he was proud to be revealing the full scope of work for the next year and beyond.

“We’ve worked extremely hard to plan for and secure the required funding to reshape the future for our community,” said Mr Kirby.

“Our extensive program of works over the next 12 months and beyond will see the heart of the shire, the Brewarrina town centre, undergo a $6 million reactivation into a vibrant, modern and inviting gathering place and hub, and the construction of an incredible $11 million youth and indoor sports centre. The extremely popular Four Mile Reserve on the river will also undergo a major $1.5 million redevelopment including a new pontoon jetty, amenities, roads and pathways.

“Of huge significance to our First Nations people and important in helping our country acknowledge the past, we’ll be upgrading facilities at the Hospital Creek Memorial, including new seating, signage and parking, and at the Old Brewarrina Mission. 

“We’re investing over $1.3 million in Goodooga, including building a new skate park, constructing new pathways from our extremely popular Artesian baths into town, as well as enhancing the facilities at the recently completed Splash Park.

“Weilmoringle will also be getting almost two kilometres of new pathways throughout the community and improvements at the cemetery, totalling almost $1 million, while Gongolgon’s tennis courts will undergo a resurface and refurbishment,” added Mr Kirby.

With a more than 1,700-kilometre road network, the next 12 months will see more than $14.5 million in road upgrades, including heavy patching and resealing of the State Highways, gravel resheeting across a number of roads in the network, resealing and patching of town streets in Brewarrina and Goodooga as well as work progressing on projects to widen sections of the Goodooga Road and construct and seal Jobs Gate Road.

Other projects to get underway over the next year include:

• Construction of a brand new $4.5 million sewerage treatment plant in Brewarrina as well as a new water treatment plant at Yetta, and the completion of the Smart Water Meter rollout across Brewarrina and Goodooga
• A $200,000 redevelopment of the Brewarrina Waste Facility
• Refurbishments to Brewarrina’s Senior Citizens Building and Mobile Resource Room, worth $250,000
• Construction of new two-bedroom units on Bourke Street for staff accommodation
• A new $1.5 million Rural Fire Service Building
• More than $500,000 in facility upgrades at the Brewarrina, Goodooga and Weilmoringle Cemeteries.

“Many of these projects are underway or have been in the planning process for years. It’s extremely exciting to see some of the most significant public projects in more than thirty years come to life, with enhancements set to benefit the community for decades to come,” concluded Mr Kirby.

A full scope of the work to be undertaken can be found here.