New lakeside camping lots will be opened up at Lake Boga Caravan Park under an expansion of the popular holiday destination backed by a $73,875 grant announced today in Lake Boga by the Member for Northern Victoria Region, Candy Broad.
The expansion will double the number of caravan park spaces at the park beside the lake.
Ms Broad said expanding the caravan park would help promote one of the region’s most popular recreational areas.
“This development is great news for Lake Boga, the town’s retail and service centre and the thousands of people who flock to the water storage facility for skiing, yachting and fishing,” Ms Broad said.
“Expanding the caravan park – especially developing accommodation away from the highway – offers an even better camping experience to more people.
“This will produce tremendous flow-on benefits for the economic viability of local businesses, which in turn strengthens the town’s prosperity.”
Ms Broad said the $98,500 Lake Boga Caravan Park Development project by Swan Hill Rural City Council would be undertaken during the lake’s current dry phase.
She said the council would use lake bed soils to reinstate the lake bank by around 30 metres.
The works also would locate and remove from the lake bed unexploded ordinance remaining from the site’s use as a flying boat repair depot during World War 2.
“Lake Boga is one of the region’s outstanding assets with its multiple uses as a storage facility for irrigators and as a venue for aquatic recreation,” Ms Broad said.
“This initiative will boost Lake Boga as an economic asset by allowing even more tourists and visitors to stay on site.”
Ms Broad said Goulburn Murray water would refill the lake this year.
Regional and Rural Development Minister, Jacinta Allan said the grant is being provided under the Brumby Labor Government’s Small Towns Development Fund initiative through Regional Development Victoria.
Ms Allan said the project typified fund initiatives which were making a big difference to towns in provincial Victoria.
The fund has helped develop 425 community and social infrastructure projects.