Our Achievements

Incorporated in 2012, the PHCPOA has attained the following major achievements over the past 12 or so years:

Negotiation of a reduction in the City of Moreton Bay (CMB) annual canal maintenance levy from $964 to just over the current $300

Monitoring of CMB’s planned dredging campaign and encouraging the purchase of a spoil site at Ningi for the storage of spoil to be dredged from mainly Skippers Canal for the latest dredging campaign due to commence this year

Solander Drain (proximate to Endeavour Drive/White Patch Esplanade) has been opened up by removal of mangroves from its base and the weir at the westerly end has been demolished. The removal of the plates blocking the flow of water in the drains under the Endeavour Blvd has occurred. These changes have promoted better circulation of tidal flows in the northerly end of the canal system

Bed levelling has been carried out in the main section of the canal, near the Marina, delaying the need for dredging to start and thus deferring cost and allowing time for better spoil treatments outcomes to be negotiated with Council which will substantially reduce dredging costs in the future

The introduction of a two-zone navigation standard, effectively meaning that the northerly end of the canal system will not require dredging for a very long time. The former Council maintenance standard specified a canal depth for a 20m boat with 1.5m draft northerly of the Sunderland Drive bridge. The Association successfully argued that a boat that size will not reasonably fit under the that bridge at any tide. Consequently the draft specification has been reduced north of Sunderland Drive

Regular meetings with CMB (three planned this year) regarding the dredging campaign and other issues raised by our members such as canal pollution and cleanup

A considered response to the intended Local Laws changes advised by CMB in 2023 concerning the maintenance of canal revetment walls obligating owners, inter alia, to provide Professional Engineers Reports as to adequacy and fit for purpose condition of walls if so, requested by CMB. Together with individual responses this initiative has now been shelved by CMB.

Contact Us

Pacific Harbour canal property owners go to the Membership page if you would like to join and submit contact details and $20 membership fee. If you are not a member and have some general questions not covered in the Frequently Asked Questions Page, pls leave details here. We can’t wait to hear from you!

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Pacific Harbour Canal Property Owners Association Inc.

Email

pharbcanalown@gmail.com

Phone

0488 048 853