Hinchinbrook’s Kylee Frankee has been awarded the Exceptional Tradeswoman, Technician, and Operator Award at the 2025 BMA Mitsubishi Alliance Queensland Resources Council (QRC) and Women in Mining and Resources Queensland (WIMARQ) Awards. With 16 years of experience as an Electrical and Instrument Technician, Kylee has earned a reputation for her expertise, leadership, and dedication to supporting apprentices and advocating for mental health in the workplace. A passionate mentor, she also champi
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If your child was born after March 2024, the Hinchinbrook Shire Council warmly invites your family to attend the 2025 Baby Welcoming Ceremony at the Hinchinbrook Shire Library. At this special event, your little one will be officially welcomed as a member of the Hinchinbrook community by the Mayor. Each family will receive a gift bag, a personalised certificate, and a commemorative sapling to symbolise the setting down of new roots and the special new bud added to your family tree. Parents and
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This year, Ingham Post Office is celebrating 90 years of service and keeping regional Queensland connected. Built in 1935, the post office has become one of the region’s most prominent community hubs and was added to the Australian Commonwealth Heritage List in 2012. Over the decades, it has connected generations of locals through letters, telegrams, phone calls, and now digital services. The region’s postal history dates back to 1871, when services began with a steamer mail run from Cardwell a
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Dawn Service - Ingham 4:15am the DAWN PARADE will assemble at Mafeking Tree, opposite the Police Station. At the service conclusion all those attending are invited to the RSL Club for breakfast. RSL Remembrance Ceremony - Ingham 6:00am a ceremony will be conducted at the Ingham War Cemetery by the Herbert River Sub-branch of the Returned Service League of Australia. Commemoration Ceremony - Forrest Beach 7:00am a commemoration ceremony will be conducted at the Forrest Beach Memorial. Parade a
Read the full storyAt Council’s main landfill site at Warrens Hill, works are currently underway to remediate one of the solid waste disposal pits known as Cell One. This pit has recently reached capacity and under Council’s license agreements, this cell is to be capped and made safe to minimise the likelihood of environmental harm.
As landfill cells reach capacity they are to be capped and contoured to minimise surface water impact and mitigate against the regionally high rainfall. Environmental harm can and does occur when water interacts with buried waste and potentially generate damaging leachate. This water can come from direct rainfall, runoff or the ground water table impacting the waste.
Generally, the water is prevented from contact with the waste by a combination of impermeable membranes and placement of clay material to isolate the waste. Further surface profiling is used to minimise and redirect cross land water flow from the Cell. Where required, pumps are used to maintain the separation of ground water from the waste.
Hinchinbrook Shire Council Mayor Ramon Jayo said capping a landfill is essential for environmental reasons.
“Sealing it means that there is no water penetration, if water were to get in, it rubs with the waste that's buried there, and then it creates the leachate,” he said.
“If that leachate escapes into the environment, it could cause environmental harm.
“Cell one at Warrens Hill Landfill and Resource Recovery Centre has been operating for at least 20 years, and now it has reached its capacity, so under the terms of our license condition, we had to undertake the relevant works.”
The Cell one capping experienced a failure and is currently undergoing remediation works. The cap failure is the subject of litigation between Council and the designer of the cap.
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