Riedel Park Boardwalk and Fishing Platform

Anglers at Riedel Park used to reach the water by scrambling down a steep, eroding riverbank. They walk out along a low boardwalk to a proper fishing platform, a safe and defined place to fish, and the bank behind them is no longer their path to the water. A composite fibre handrail runs along the boardwalk: 29 metres of Wagners sections made in Toowoomba, fixed with 36 grade 316 stainless steel brackets by a two carpenter crew in a single day.

That bank has been planted with 3,200 native tube stock, behind rock armouring placed from a barge using GPS machine control. Working from the water meant no machinery had to sit on the bank being repaired. With the foot traffic off it, the bank has a chance to hold.