DISASTER recovery works to repair landslips are under way across the Nambucca Valley and remediation at the large Flame Tree Road landslip is almost complete.
This Valla landslip, which is approximately 70 metres long, is one of many scars the Valley carries due to natural disaster.
The disaster recovery work is funded by the NSW Reconstruction Authority, with Federal and State funding.
NVC acting general manager David Moloney said the Flame Tree Road site was the fifth to be completed this year.
He said that a large landslip at Gumma remained a priority for the community and that Council was still working to obtain funding to support its remediation and repair.
“Council has finalised a submission to the NSW Reconstruction Authority on the large landslip at Gumma, adjacent to Gumma Road, for natural disaster funding,” Mr Moloney said.
“It is a priority for Council to fix this site and we will continue to work with relevant government agencies to secure funding to remediate this site.”
NVC Mayor Gary Lee visited the Valla site with Mr Moloney late last week.
“Flame Tree Road had been eroded through several years of flooding and it’s great to see the landslip now covered in engineered rock-fill and the works almost complete,” Cr Lee said.
Cr Lee said that approximately 80 landslip sites affecting roads and embankments across the valley required remediation, and these works would be carried out across the next two to three years.
NVC acting general manager David Moloney said the Flame Tree Road site was the fifth to be completed this year.
Other landslips that have been remediated this year include Piggot Street, Nambucca Heads; Riverside Drive, Nambucca Heads; and Taylors Arm Road, at the landslip site located 4.7kms west of Macksville.
Johns Bridge at Missabotti is very near to completion.
Another Council contractor started remediating a landslip on the banks of the Nambucca River at River Street, Macksville, near the Phillip Hughes Bridge late last month.
Work will also start this week to remediate a package of 10 landslips, located in the upper reaches of Taylors Arm/Burrapine.
To learn more about remediation works visit Council’s website and access the disaster recovery interactive map, or download the digital app, Antenno.
By Eve NESMITH
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