Peninsula loses $1m in drainage funds

More than $1 million is to be taken from Peninsula drainage works to be spent on trunk drainage at Terrigal.

Gosford Council has approved a revised transport and environment capital works programs for the year, spending money previously earmarked for the Peninsula elsewhere.

Roughly $1 million dollars had been set aside for drainage work in the Woy Woy Peninsula catchment area.

This has now been reduced to $5000.

The planned work is to be "deferred" and "rescheduled" after a water sensitive urban design study is completed.

Similarly, at Pretty Beach, $100,000 set aside for trunk drainage works has been reduced to $10,000.

The drainage works at Pretty Beach have also been deferred due to a catchment study.

Expenditure on drainage at Mullhall St in Wagstaffe has also been reduced from $100,000 to $85,792 this year.

Of the money taken from Peninsula drainage projects, over $900,000 will now be spent on trunk drainage at Terrigal.

The council also reallocated roads and transport funds.

Allocations of $14,624 for Ocean Beach Rd and $10,000 for a traffic management system at Pearl Beach have been withdrawn, while an expenditure of $27,995 for urgent works, completed on Patonga Dr due to landslip, was approved.

The transport and environment elements of the capital works program were reviewed to identify the allocation of money necessary to complete each project or to stage ongoing projects.

The review also addressed proposed allocations to projects, which had emerged during the year and were considered to be high priority and to need immediate funding.

Council agenda EO.10, March 1