Flood Recovery Works

The flood events in October 2022 caused significant damage to infrastructure and property throughout our municipality. We know our residents are keen to see infrastructure and the road network restored as soon as possible and the truth is – we do too.

For us to submit a claim to recover the costs of this repair work through the Federal Government’s National Disaster Financial Assistance program – we were required to provide a detailed scope of the repair work. We engaged Shepherd Services – an experienced asset management and impact assessment consultancy firm to assess the damage and provide a detailed summary of what was needed.

The assessment is now complete and identified that $9.8+ million of repairs are needed to restore damaged roads, culverts, and other public infrastructure in our Shire.

The good news is priority repair works from this road network restoration claim has been approved and over coming months this work will be carried out.

Remaining works within the claim are due to be approved shortly and scheduled for delivery over the next 12 to 18 months.

The road network restoration program will deliver:

• Repairs and cleaning of major and minor culvert/bridges
• Cleaning and reinstatement of roadside table drain
• Gravel resheeting and grading of damaged unsealed roads
• Repairs to sealed roads including reinstatement of potholes, rehabilitation of failed pavement and repair of unsealed shoulders where necessary
• Vegetation removal and replacement of damaged signs

We’ll update this page weekly with works completed to date.

Until these works are complete, we remind motorists to drive to the conditions and please be careful when using the roads, especially gravel ones.

Round 1 – High Priority

The following locations will receive reinstatement works shortly – exact date TBC and is dependent on contractor availability.