Tweed Shire Council have announced that after an extensive investigation, design and approval process spanning more than a year, contractor Civil Mining and Construction (CMC) will start work on its site office and works depot at Dum Dum from next Monday, October 16.
The demountable site office will support the critical $40m Kyogle and Mount Warning Roads restoration projects.
These projects are expected to take around 18-months to complete, financed by Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements (DRFA).
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Increase in heavy vehicle activity
As initial works begin, residents and motorists may notice an increase in heavy vehicle activity along Kyogle Road and turning into Mount Warning Road.
The works depot includes a site office, generator at the rear of the compound, Starlink satellite network (no tower) and storage yard. It is situated on vacant land set back from the old Dum Dum School (now a private residence).
Access to the depot will be via a temporary access road built by the contractor with the entrance running off Mount Warning Road, approximately 80 metres from its intersection with Kyogle Road.
Community and visitors thanked for their patience
The Uki community and visitors to this popular area of the Tweed are thanked for their patience while waiting for the slip remediation and road reconstruction works to start on six major landslips along Kyogle Road – between Byangum and Uki – and another major slip on Mount Warning Road, caused by the February/March 2022 flood event which severely damaged the road network.
CMC is planning to start work on two slips – Kyogle ‘A’ near Byangum Bridge and Kyogle ‘C’ between Glenock Road and Braeside Drive – by mid-November, weather permitting.
Motorists will note the changed road and traffic conditions along Kyogle Road including the replacement of water-filled barriers with steel barriers, new traffic lights between Braeside Drive and Glenock Road, with traffic both ways to be reduced to a single lane through the works sites.
A complex, multi-slip restoration project
This complex, multi-slip restoration project will see Kyogle Road and Mount Warning Roads restored to pre-flood conditions.
Council’s Manager Infrastructure Delivery Tim Mackney said the first sign of construction on the Kyogle Road project is a significant milestone in Council’s restoration of critical infrastructure damaged by the floods. ‘The 2022 flood event resulted in more than 3,000 individual damage items across the Shire’s roads.
‘While more than 2,000 have already been repaired, the flood team has to start more than 10 new repairs every week to restore all remaining flood damage within the next two years. This has been, and continues to be, a mammoth effort by all those involved.
Mr Mackney said the Kyogle and Mount Warning Roads restoration project, comprising seven slips, is the largest restoration project in the Tweed undertaken by one contractor and we welcome the long-awaited start to works. ‘We understand the impact on neighbouring landowners from the temporary works depot establishing in Dum Dum but stress the need for this centrally-located site to complete these essential projects in a timely manner, and to meet wider community expectations about restoring the local road network after the floods.
‘Every effort has been made with the establishment of the temporary works depot to ensure as little disruption to the surrounding community as possible.
Weekly project updates are available on Council’s website at tweed.nsw.gov.au/flood-restoration-works.
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