Infrastructure & Asset Management Plans
Plant and Equipment
Council provides plant and equipment to enable it to provide services to the Community. Plant and equipment assets covered by this plan include earthmoving equipment, heavy vehicles, light vehicles, community bus, woodchipper and ride-on movers.
Buildings and Structures
There are 94 parcels of land under the care and control of Council distributed across 78 unique sites. Council own and manage 47 different building assets across 30 sites, and 99 structures & site improvements (referred to as ‘structures’ for the purpose of this plan) distributed across 30 sites.
The buildings and structures assets vary in nature from small shelters and sheds, playgrounds and memorials, to larger recreational facilities and historically significant buildings.
Community Wastewater Management System
Council provides Community Wastewater Management Systems (CWMS) to residential and commercial properties in the townships of Tumby Bay and Port Neill.
In Tumby Bay, the wastewater is collected through a gravity pipe network. Nineteen pump stations are distributed across the township to pump the collected wastewater through rising mains to a wastewater treatment plant. The treated water is then distributed for reuse and irrigates several open space areas via subsurface irrigation assets. A storage lagoon situated to the north of town is also used to store treated wastewater prior to reuse by irrigation at the Golf Course.
In Port Neill, the wastewater is also collected through a gravity pipe network. Two pumping stations pump the wastewater through rising mains to a lagoon situated to the north of town.
Wastewater is pumped from the lagoon through a small filtration plant and to the oval for reuse by subsurface irrigation.
Transport & Stormwater
Council provides a Transport and Stormwater infrastructure network to residential and commercial properties in both the rural areas and built-up township areas.
The transport infrastructure assets provide transport services through the provision of a safe and effective road and footpath network. The road network includes unsealed surfaces, sealed surfaces including the underlying pavement, kerbing, footpath and bridge assets.
The stormwater infrastructure assets provide a network of underground pipes and culverts within the townships of Tumby Bay and Port Neill, enabling rainfall to be easily directed from the roads. Throughout the rural areas stormwater assets are located where it is necessary to direct water under the road (cross drains) or in some circumstances over the road (floodway).
Council is also responsible for several unsealed (gravel, rubble or crusher dust) footpaths and approximately 110km of formed roads.