Logan’s sewage system almost at bursting point

LOGAN City Council’s sewers are reaching capacity and will be at breaking point in the next four years.

Last week, the council took the initiative and announced to thousands of residents it was on the hunt for 80ha of land backing on to Logan River to build the city’s next sewerage treatment plant.

Council wrote to residents in the high-growth corridor between Park Ridge and Yarrabilba.

The letter told households the new sewage treatment plant was needed to keep pace with the population boom and would ultimately service about 121,000 people.

Council water committee chairman Phil Pidgeon said council was working to ensure the land would not have to be compulsorily acquired. But he said action was being taken now as the $40 million first stage of the sewage plant was hoped to be operational by 2021.