Flood Recovery Works
Delivering the upgrades needed to repair and restore our road infrastructure following last year’s flood event continues to be a focus for Central Goldfields Shire.
Whilst a significant amount of works has been carried out, there are several packages of works to repair roads, bridges and associated infrastructure still to be delivered.
At the October Council Meeting, Councillors moved a notion of motion as urgent business. The purpose of the motion was to ensure the next round of flood mitigation works can be carried out as quickly as possible.
Increasing the CEO’s financial delegation means these contracts can be awarded without having to wait for the next Council Meeting. Essentially it means these critical works can be carried out as quickly as possible.
Here's a breakdown of the packages that have been completed and what is underway:
Package 1 - High Priority - COMPLETE
Package 1 is now complete and was delivered by Shay Excavations.
The list of roads restored as part of this package are detailed below:
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Location
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Treatment
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Archdale Road
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Grading and gravel resheeting where necessary
COMPLETE
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Argyle Lane
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Grading and gravel resheeting where necessary
COMPLETE
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Baker Road
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Repair of failed culvert, grading and gravel resheeting where necessary
COMPLETE
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Carisbrook Betley Road
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Grading and gravel resheeting where necessary
COMPLETE
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Deledio Access Road
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Grading
COMPLETE
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Lillicur Road
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Repair drainage infrastructure, Grading and gravel resheeting where necessary
COMPLETE
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Mc Intyres Road
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Grading and gravel resheeting where necessary
COMPLETE
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Mt Cameron Road
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Grading
COMPLETE
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Prices Road
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Grading and gravel resheeting where necessary
COMPLETE
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Scent Farm Road North
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Grading and gravel resheeting where necessary
COMPLETE
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Scent Farm Road South
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Repair drainage infrastructure, Grading and gravel resheeting where necessary
COMPLETE
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Majorca Road |
Repair unsealed gravel shoulders
COMPLETE |
Rodborough Road |
Shoulder works
COMPLETE
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Package 2 - Maintenance Grading - COMPLETE
Package 2 is now complete and was delivered by Council's Operations team:
ROAD NAME
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COMPLETION DATES (approx.)
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Bung Bung Longs Road
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COMPLETE
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Barkly St, Dunolly
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TBC
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Bucklands Lane, Talbot
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COMPLETE
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Douglass Road, Timor
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COMPLETE
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Gordon Road, Wareek
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COMPLETE
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Hickeys Road,
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COMPLETE
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Hoopers Road, Carisbrook
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COMPLETE |
Longs Road, Bealiba
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COMPLETE |
Longs Road, Timor
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COMPLETE
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McGilvray Road, Timor
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COMPLETE
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Norwood Road, Timor
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COMPLETE
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Potters Lane, Talbot
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COMPLETE
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Old School Road |
COMPLETE |
Wareek Road
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COMPLETE
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Wareek-Homebush Road |
COMPLETE |
Package 3 - Flood Debris Removal - COMPLETE
Package 3 is now complete and was delivered by Shay Excavations:

Package 4 - Road Grading - UNDERWAY
Package 4 commenced late October and is expected to be complete in December.
Road grading is being carried out at the following locations:
Roads in Package 4
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Albert Street
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Alfred Joyce Road
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Alice Street
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Alma Bowenvale Road
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Alma Moonlight Road
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Apple Jack Road
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Atherton Road North
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Avoca Bealiba Road Service
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Baker Lane
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Bald Hill Road
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Bartletts Road
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Bassett Street
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Bealiba South Road
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Bell Road
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Bet Bet Mt Hooghly Road
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Birketts Lane
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Black Lane
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Blackmores Road
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Blacksmith Gully Road
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Boromeo Road
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Brown Street
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Buicks Road
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Burke Street
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Burnt Creek Lane
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Cambridge Street
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Camp Street
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Cemetery Road
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Cemetery Road
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Chambers Road
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Cheeseman Lane
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Clarkes Road
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Cobbs Road
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Connor Lane
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Cornthwaites Road
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Cortesi Road
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Crameri Road
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Crespigny Street
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Dabonde Road
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Davies Road
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Davies Street
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Dehnerts Road
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Denyers Road
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Donovans Road
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Duncombe Road
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Dunn Road
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Dunolly Archdale Road
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Dunolly Timor Road
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Emu Archdale Road
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Fink Street
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Forbes Lane
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Fosters Road
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Four Mile Lane
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Freehold Lane
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Freemantles Road
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Fyffe Street
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Galloways Road
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Gane Street
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Gladstone Lane
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Gladstone Street
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Gloury Road
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Goldsborough Road
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Goldsmith Lane
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Grant Street
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Greenoch Park Lane
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Hall Road
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Halls Road
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Hard Hills Track
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Harkin Court
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Havelock Baringhup Road
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Hemleys Road
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Hospital Street
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Howards Lane
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Hurns Road
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Johnson Road
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Johnson Street
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Keillor Lane
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Kicks Lane
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Kingston Road
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Logan Road
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Lovel Street
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Maffescioni Road
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Magpie Lane
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Maguire Road
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Mason Road
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Matthews Road
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Maude Street
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Mcardles Lane
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Mcclure Street
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Mcdermaids Road
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Mcleods Road
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Mia Mia Road
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Miller Road
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Moolort Street
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Moonlight Road
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Moores Flat Road
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Mosquito Road
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Mount View Road
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Moyreisk North Road
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Mt Cameron Cotswold Road
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Mt Glasgow Road
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Mullins Eddington Road
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Mullins Road
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Nesbet Road
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Newitts Lane
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Nicholls Bridge Road
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Nicholsons Lane North
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Nicholsons Lane South
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Nuggetty Gully Road
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Off Mt Glasgow Road
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Off Prospect Place
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Old Avoca Road
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Orme Street
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Peace Lane
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Peel Street
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Phillip Hill Road
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Pilchers Road
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Plantation Road
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Plumpton Lane
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Pollocks Road
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Possum Gully Road
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Potts Lane
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Proctors Lane
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Prospect Place
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Puzzle Flat Road
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Quarry Road
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Queen Street
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Queens Birthday Mine Road
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Railway Flats Road
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Red Lion Road
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Reservoir Road
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Rudrum Road
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Russells Road
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Saligaris Road
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Salmon Road
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Scenic Road
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Scott Lane
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Scotts Road
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Sebastopol Road
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Seers Road
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Separation Road
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Seymour Road
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Shepherds Road
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Shiells Lane
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Simson Road West
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Smalls Road
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Solomano Lane
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Sorrensons Road
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Stevens Lane
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Stoneham Drive
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Svensen Road
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Swamp Road
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Taggart Drive
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Talbot Road
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Talbot Transfer Station Road
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Timor Bromley Road
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Timor Mt Hooghly Road
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Tolmer Road
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Trafalgar Street
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Treble Court
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Treble Lane
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Trickeys Road
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Trowers Lane
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Tunstalls Lane
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Virginia Street
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Wanlace Road
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Wattle Gully Road
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Weirs Road
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Wellington Street
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Whiteheads Lane
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Whites Lane
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Whittles Road
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William Street
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Williamson Court
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Wills Street
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Woodlands Road
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Woodward Road
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Yeomans Lane
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The next package of works - Package 5 - is planned for early 2024 and includes sealed road and shoulder repairs as well as culvert and structure erosion repairs.
Locations will be published on this page when works are about to commence.
The process to here:
The October 2022 floods caused significant damage to infrastructure and property throughout our municipality.
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 identified that $9.8+ million (excluding GST) of repairs were needed to restore damaged roads, culverts, and other public infrastructure in our Shire.
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
Until these works are complete, we remind motorists to drive to the conditions and please be careful when using the roads, especially gravel ones.