The Banora Point Pacific Highway upgrade has won the prestigious International Erosion Control Association (IECA) premier award.
The award recognised outstanding sediment and erosion control and natural resource conservation. The most notable initiative contributing to the project’s award was a ‘triple-stack’ design at the northbound on ramp, helping to treat run off water from the road while conserving space.
Federal Member for Richmond, Justine Elliot said “the design also included a clean water pipe under a sediment basin and an open vegetated biofiltration channel which is used to treat road surface runoff”.
The Banora Point upgrade is expected to be fully open to traffic in mid 2012 with final work on local roads scheduled for the second half of 2012, weather permitting.
