July-August 2016 Oceania Edition

56 Business View Australia - July - August 2016 doing a similar one. My challenge to the council staff was to do our project better than they were doing it. We haven’t had any negative so I’m quite happy that we worked just as good as a big national company in doing that kind of roadwork”, says Andrew. Maintaining the foreshore with the Port Broughton seawall Another major project for the council has been the ongoing seawall reconstruction at Port Broughton. The project, which has an estimated cost of over $1 million, has been supported by the state government and is on the council’s top list of priorities. It is a huge undertaking that will protect the foreshore and ensure the security of the surrounding area too. Maintaining theseawall andthecoastline ingeneral is a challenging matter. However, the issues of potential sea level rise and its impact on the community is too severe to ignore and thus the team