A three day music festival at Lardner Park has been praised by local police and is estimated to have injected $3 million into the local economy.
While acknowledging some traffic issues on Saturday morning, Lardner Park chief executive officer Craig Debnam said the inaugural A3 musical festival was a huge success.
With 6500 patrons and 500 event crew on site, Mr Debnam said Warragul and Drouin businesses reported great sales, stimulating the local economy by an estimated $3 million.
Despite six months of communications with residents within a five kilometre radius of Lardner Park, traffic issues arose on Saturday morning.
In an effort to reduce the impact of the event on local roads, Burnt Store Rd and Curries Rd were closed throughout the event. All local residents were offered resident passes to ensure full access to their properties and both roads throughout the event.
Mr Debnam said the arrangements were well communicated to residents within five kilometres and 187 people on an email list.
"We wanted to be open and transparent and fix the traffic issues that had occurred previously," he said.
However, Mr Debnam said one "over zealous" traffic controller had prevented access to a milk tanker and stopped residents who did not have printed passes displayed in their vehicles.
"We remedied the situation very quickly and common sense was applied by Saturday afternoon...residents were automatically waved through," he said.
Mr Debnam said the approved traffic plan was enforced. "At no point was there any congestion stopping residents getting through," he said.
He said the two road closures had not been advertised and acknowledged that was possibly an "oversight" for broader community knowledge of the traffic arrangements. "I appreciate we didn't get it 100 per cent right."
Mr Debnam said before the event there had been three consultation sessions for residents to attend. "The last thing we wanted to do was impact our neighbours," he said.