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For more information contact your local councillor Angela Owen-Taylor click here

2006 saw the establishment of the Oxley Creek Taskforce. The representatives on the taskforce come from state and local government departments, community groups and the business sector.

The taskforce is a non statutory body whose main role is to identify the different options available to Brisbane City, Logan, Ipswich and Beaudesert Shire Councils to address such matters as:
  • the impact of future development in the Oxley Creek catchment
  • flooding in the catchment (if it ever rains again)
  • creek rehabilitation and
  • the protection and enhancement of green space and wildlife corridors throughout the catchment.

The taskforce met twice during the year and also conducted two workshops aimed at identifying the best means to achieve the taskforce’s objectives.

The four main priorities to come out of these workshops were:
  • the rehabilitation and future use of the Readymix site which has recently ceased sand mining
  • the urgent need to stop further erosion of the bed and banks of Oxley Creek upstream of Brookbent Road
  • the importance of retaining and enhancing the green space and wildlife linkages in the catchment and
  • sustainable communities - what are sustainable communities and how do they work.

The taskforce is to have its own website to allow the community to keep in touch with what the taskforce is discussing; unfortunately this has not eventuated as yet. Technical troubles with the Pallara.com website has also meant that the latest Oxley Creek Taskforce up dates have not been able to be displayed. Hopefully next year the taskforce will develop its own website and a link can be made between the two sites.

To go to:
Taskforce minutes click here
Taskforce members click here
Visioning workshops click here
Working groups click here