Gympie Council Southside sewerage stages 8-10 finally underway | Maps

Gympie Regional Council has rolled up its sleeves taken the plunger to the backed up Southside sewerage program, with work to connect hundreds of homes to the key service finally flowing once more.

Work is finally underway on stage eight of Gympie Regional Council’s Southside Sewerage scheme, more thna four years after delivery of the program was put on hold.

Gympie Regional Council is finally unclogging the pipeline on its long delayed Southside Sewerage scheme, with hundreds of homes to be connected to the key service after a four-year delay.

Almost 200 homes will be hooked up to the region’s sewerage service across the next two years, when one-third of the remaining nine stages expected to be completed.

Residents near the intersection of McIntosh Creek Rd and the Mary Valley Rd, and between Groundwater Rd and Mary Valley Rd (north of Cox Rd) will be the first cabs off the rank.

The council signed off on a $1.56m contract to deliver stage eight of the scheme in January.

In July 2022 the state government added another $3.54m to help with the installation of the stages eight through 10.

Stage eight of the scheme will allow 66 properties to connect to the region’s sewerage service.

Sixty-six properties will be able to connect once stage eight is finished.

A timeline on the council’s website reveals house connections are intended to begin at the end of 2023.

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Progress on stage nine is intended to start in July-September, with those homes connecting from April-June 2024.

Southside Sewerage stage nine will allow another 75 properties to connect to sewerage.

Seventy-five properties will be connected in this stage which includes houses between Normanby Hill Rd, Groundwater Rd and the Mary Valley Rd, and along Sorensen Rd near Emerald Dr, Rocklea Dr, and Winnington Rd.

Fifty-one Southside homeowners will gain sewerage services when stage 10 is completed. Six stages will remain to be done once stage 10 is finished.

Stage 10, consisting of 51 properties near Rocklea Dr, Crystal Court and Emerald Dr, is intended to start in October-December 2023.

Those connections around April-June 2024.

The on-again, off-again, on-again scheme has been a lightning rod for controversy since it was launched in 2011.

In 2014 the council came under fire from residents after it told them they would have to pay up to $10,000 of the bill themselves.

Less than a year later the council backflipped on this position and agreed to cover all the costs.

Progress stalled in 2018 over the cost of remaining nine stages of the 16-stage scheme.