Burrum Heads proposed boat ramp.

Sue Brooks March 5th, 2009

Now is the time to have your say on this project. The information is available from the Council home page or via this link http://www.frasercoast.qld.gov.au/news/2009/Burrum%20Heads%20Draft%20Land%20Management%20Plan.shtml

The great majority of residents in Burrum Heads have been actively trying to improve boating facilities in their area for many years now and this plan is the culmination of much work and much frustration. A new boat ramp has to provide enough space for associated car parking. The ramp is a State Government responsibility but the associated car parking must be provided by Council.

Anyhow please peruse the document and provide comment prior to March 13th. Hard copies are also available at Council and the Burrum Heads Library etc.

6 Responses to “Burrum Heads proposed boat ramp.”

  1. # Geoffon 28 Mar 2009 at 5:33 am

    I know that the Burrum Heads Progress Association has been lobbying for this third ramp for many months. In fact the ‘Progress Association’ became for many months a ‘Boat Ramp Association’. This was the reason I gave up attending meetings – the topic seemed to dominate the available time.
    If you go past the two existing boat ramps, even on a weekend, one of them is hardly used (the easterly one) and if you go past the other at 7.30am to 8.00am on a Saturday, you will find that is hardly ever beset with queues of more than 2 cars and trailers either.
    Rather than build another ramp, the Council should have been urged to overcome the (alleged) faults of the second and newer ramp which seems more as a standing place for fishermen much of the time – those with rods and lines but without boats.
    As for a “Great Majority” – the average attendance at PA meetings (20 to 30)hardly represented a majority of Burrum Heads residents.

  2. # Koolbooon 29 Jul 2009 at 4:27 am

    I agree with Geoff.
    There are only about 5 days a year where boat ramps are an issue and that is partly because the money recently spent on the eastern ramp has been wasted.

  3. # Robon 28 Nov 2009 at 9:16 pm

    Suggest Geoff check his facts.
    At state elections in 1996 a poll was taken outside the community hall (polling booth) & 98% of enrolled voters in Burrum Heads voted in favour of a new boat ramp.
    Re attendance at PA meetings that is a natural Australian fact, until someone starts shooting at us we don’t want to get involved. If you want to raise an issue join the PA & come to meetings.
    Lions Park walkway, tennis courts, footpaths etc – all PA iniatives.

  4. # Paton 29 Nov 2009 at 6:04 am

    Mmm Rob, before you suggest other people check their facts, it might be a good idea to check your own. There was NO State election in 1996. And even if there was (which there wasn’t), they wouldn’t get 98% pf the enrolled voters to attend and vote. Unless you’re seriously expecting people to believe that 98 percent of the enrolled voters signed your ballot, but some then didn’t bother to vote in a State election (the same one that didn’t actually occur in 1996). I suggest that you take your own advice and check your own facts.

  5. # Robon 02 Dec 2009 at 4:15 am

    Thank you Pat. My mistake it was 1995. Silly to put the 5 & 6 beside each other on the keyboard eh. What I meant to say was that 98% of the enrolled voters, who voted at these elections in Burrum Heads, signed a petition outside the Community Hall, on election day, in favour of a new boat ramp at Lions Park.

  6. # Paton 02 Dec 2009 at 9:20 pm

    And 100% of those enrolled voters who either didn’t vote, or voted at another polling booth DIDN’T sign the petition.

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