Annual Report 2004-2005 - City of Vincent

T ECHNICAL S ERVICES
Worm Farms and Compost Bins
The development of a comprehensive Waste Management Strategy
is currently on hold pending the outcome of the Mindarie Regional
Council’s Resource Recovery Facility plans for the region. Once this
has been determined the method of collection and disposal of
waste in the Town will be further progressed.
However, other initiatives which will form part of the overall
strategy including the promotion of home composting such as
‘worm farms’ and the use of home composting bins are currently
in place and the Council subsidises the cost of worm farms and
compost bins to the Town’s residents.
Home composting bins are currently available to the Town’s
residents for $45 per bin.
Worm farm workshops are planned in 2005-2006.
Mindarie Regional Council
The Town of Vincent and six other metropolitan local governments
comprise the Mindarie Regional Council (MRC). The MRC is
committed to reducing the amount of waste to landfill and has
resolved to build a Resource Recovery Facility (RRF) to reduce the
size of any future landfill at the existing landfill site located at Tamala
Park and to dramatically increase the volume of materials recycled.
The MRC plans to introduce the above RRF in stages, commencing
in 2007. The nature of the RRF has yet to be determined, however,
investigations are currently in progress and, once the facility is
established, a new recycling system may be introduced in the Town.
Engineering Design Services
Manager: Craig Wilson
The Engineering Design Services team is responsible for the
development and implementation of the Town’s infrastructure
upgrade programmes including roads, footpaths, drainage, rights
of way, underground power, street lighting, signage and street
furniture. The section also provides design and survey services
for the Town’s Engineering and Parks Services sections.
CAPITAL WORKS DESIGNED AND IMPLEMENTED
DURING 2004-2005
Cycling and Universal Access Improvements
In the financial year 2004-2005 the Town spent $22,000 on
Local Bicycle Network and Universal Access improvement projects.
A majority of the works consisted of the installation of new
pedestrian ramps and tactile ground indicators in keeping with the
Town’s Disability Access and Inclusion Plan, as well as new bicycle
parking facilities at various locations throughout the Town.
Road Rehabilitation (State/Local Government
funded road works)
Two major road upgrading projects were carried out which were
jointly funded by Main Roads WA, the City of Stirling and the Town.
The value of these projects was in the order of $420,000, with the
works comprising new kerbing, drainage improvements, profiling of
the existing pavement surface and applying a new asphalt overlay:
Among the projects were:
In the 2004-2005 year alone, the Town’s residents sent
approximately 13,040 tonnes of refuse to landfill and recycled
2385 tonnes of material which would otherwise have also gone to
landfill. The new MRC initiatives aim to reverse this trend in the
long term.
• Walcott Street, North Perth/Menora (Hill Street to
Redfern Street)*
• Green Street, Mount Hawthorn (Dunedin Street to
Scarborough Beach Road).**
* Co-funded by the City of Stirling as Walcott Street is a boundary road.
** West-bound lanes and median strip only resurfaced as City of Stirling
resurfaced the east-bound lanes in the late 1990s.
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