Bunbury’s Casuarina Boat Harbour will continue its transformation as a regional marine and community hub with the WA Government allocating $89.1 million for key upgrades.
The funding package for the delivery of Stage 3.2 of the Transforming Bunbury’s Waterfront (TBW) project will see a new inclusive community recreation precinct developed to support the planned accessible fishing platform and will also nearly double the number of boat pens at the harbour to meet demand.
The allocation will also be used to upgrade the harbour’s outer seawall and improve the internal rock revetments allowing work to raise some areas of land to create lots ready for commercial leasehold and activation opportunities.
Working in consultation with the South West Development Commission, the Department of Transport and Major Infrastructure (DTMI) will manage the delivery of the works through to 2029.
Recent investment at Casuarina Boat Harbour as part of TBW Stage 3.1 has seen the structure of a new northern breakwater completed to provide a more sheltered facility for users, the Koombana groyne upgraded, a new toilet block, and improved parking area at the boat ramp. The works followed the earlier Jetty Road upgrade and provision of a new multipurpose building as part of TBW Stage 2.
This new allocation of funds brings total funding for harbour upgrades to $218 million since September 2018.