![]() In going to the State this year for enforcement of the infamous Deed of Agreement, the Council has now initiated a process which will most likely result in the Council being lumbered with all the Port Hinchinbrook maintenance. The breakwalls did not solve the siltation problem. Within a year of the dredging, the canals and marina were again well-silted. ![]() ![]() In 2007, local real estate agent Lindsay Hallam and contractor John Wood went to the Cassowary Coast Regional Council to get the Council to take over the dredging of the Port Hinchinbrook Grande Canal, promising no dredging required for six years.įortunately for the shire's ratepayers, the 1997 Council refused, not wanting to burden ratepayers with Keith Williams' estimate of "$600 thousand dollars a year to dredge the channel" (Hinchinbrook decision paves the way for rock wall development, ABC farnorth/stories, Thursday, 19 October 2006). ![]()
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