Improvements to critical water and sewerage services will become a reality for 50 Queensland councils thanks to the Queensland State Government, following the announcement of the latest Building Our Regions funding round.
Building Our Regions has a long and successful history of supporting Queensland’s local governments to invest in essential regional infrastructure, creating jobs and flow-on economic development opportunities.
To date, including Round 6, the Building Our Regions program has contributed to 370 projects across 69 local government areas. The program has leveraged close to $610 million in additional funding from other sources. That brings the total program expenditure to over $1 billion, supporting an estimated 3,180 construction jobs.
More than $69 million was approved for 99 projects that will improve water and sewerage services in 50 regional and remote local councils. The largest funding approved was $2 million, and the smallest was $50,000.
Quotes attributable to Water Minister Glenn Butcher:
“The Palaszczuk Labor Government invests in our regional communities.
“Building our Regions is a fantastic program supporting regional and rural councils while creating 3,180 construction jobs across regional Queensland.
“Water and sewerage infrastructure are vital to good jobs, better services and the ongoing liveability of our wonderful Queensland communities.
“This round has received applications for a wide range of water and sewerage projects. The delivery of these will assist local governments to enhance their water supply and wastewater management for regional communities.”
Further Information:
There were two project elements for Round 6 – planning and infrastructure. Planning projects are those where funding was sought for various activities to prepare for the construction of critical water and sewerage projects. Infrastructure projects are those that are ready for construction.
Seven Indigenous councils and one town authority were among the 69 local governments that have been supported by Building Our Regions.
The complete list of funding recipients can be found here.
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