To prevent holidaymakers being flooded for a third straight summer if an east coast low hits Holiday Haven Tourist Park at Lake Tabourie, earth and drainage works are about to start.
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Deluges in January and the previous summer left huge sheets of water on the grass with nowhere to drain from the western camping section of the park.
Shoalhaven Tourist Parks manager Kevin Sullivan said there would be an immediate start on an upgrade to expected to cost $50,000.
“We have done extensive surveys of the main flood affected areas and mapped that survey data with photos of the property from recent flood events,” he said.
Work will include filling flood prone areas with sandy loam that will pack down, grow grass and drain water.
Some roadway and kerbing will be redirected and the pavement levels adjusted on others, enabling construction of drainage, swales and stormwater runoffs.
“After this month’s floods we took away 300 cubic metres of debris that washed into the park,” Mr Sullivan said.
The mitigation work will be completed by December, and later the ground level of powered campsite en-suites will be raised.
