Flood Risk Management Package - 2023 Tropical Cyclone Jasper

About 

The $7.73 million Far North Queensland Flood Risk Management Package will undertake key flood risk management activities in the Bloomfield River catchment encompassing Cook Shire, Douglas Shire and Wujal Wujal Aboriginal Shire council areas. The package will ensure the most updated and current flood data is available to assist councils to update their local government planning schemes.

Eligibility 

• Cook Shire Council 
• Douglas Shire Council
• Wujal Wujal Aboriginal Shire Council 

Funding acknowledgement 

The package is funded by the Queensland Government using efficiencies realised under the joint Commonwealth-state Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements (DRFA) to support Queensland communities in their recovery from the Tropical Cyclone Jasper, associated rainfall and flooding, 13 – 28 December 2023 event. 

Administering agency 

Queensland Reconstruction Authority 

Delivery agency 

Queensland Reconstruction Authority