Brisbane is recycling a sewage treatment plant into a $22 million family park

“It helps keep the rich agricultural soil in the Lockyer River and not washed into Moreton Bay.

“The federal government has signaled that it supports this. If they support that, they could easily take a leap toward supporting this Oxley Creek Transformation project.”

Durack is one of Brisbane’s fastest growing suburbs.

The new park would have a large adventure playground and water playground, a youth center with a basketball court, a bush garden and a native plant nursery.

“It’s important because historically, Oxley Creek has always been the most polluted and degraded catchment creek in the wider city’s river network,” Schrinner said.

“That’s why we targeted it with a special 20-year program.”

The larger Oxley Creek Transformation Master Plan includes a 20 kilometer green space corridor from the Brisbane River at Tennyson to Warril Parkland at Larapinta.

The 150 hectare Archerfield Wetlands site is one of the largest projects in the Oxley Creek Transformation, which will include eucalypt forests, open grasslands and freshwater wetlands with more than 150 different bird species.

The person charged with Oxley Creek’s transformation is Nigel Chamier OAM, the man who led the rescue of City Hall, whose foundations had been destroyed by decaying concrete.

Chamier said the council’s $100 million commitment to environmental repair work should not be underestimated.

“There is nothing more important than preserving this country and opening it up to the people,” he said.

“The two-mile walkway … has survived two floods already, and it’s held up very well, and was back open within a week or two.

“So we have already learned from past floods.”