The Byron Shire Council says several flood recovery projects are done or nearing completion, nearly four years after 2022’s floods and landslides, while others are to continue into 2027.

As the flood 2022 bills come rolling in for Tweed Shire Council (TSC) it has become apparent that almost half of the $125 million total repair bill will be spent on repairing landslides that have impacted access routes. 

As 2022 comes to a close, there’s a lot to unpack from a year in which the region experienced its worst flood and landslips in living memory.

Extreme rain and flooding will continue to get worse for decades to come as we have at least another 0.4 degrees of global warming locked in that is likely to be reached by 2030 – in the next ten years. 

An average of a hundred truckloads of flood debris per day is still being collected in the Tweed Shire, months after climate disasters devastated the region.

As the clean-up continues across the Northern Rivers many roads are still a long way from being ready for traffic owing to significant damage from floodwaters and landslides.