Tamworth council updates community on flooding damage

The Northern Daily Leader

TRC's Manager of Operations and Construction, Murray Russell, updated the media about the recent flooding in Somerton, on Tuesday. Video by Gareth Gardner

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00:00The repair of the bridge itself should be not overly complicated, the concrete

00:05structure appears to still be in good condition. The river itself has a steep

00:11vertical face on the northern bank and obviously that's eroded and started to

00:16push to the north and it's allowed water to get around the northern abutment of

00:20the bridge so initially we'll just try to do a temporary repair where we can get

00:25some earthworks in and re-establish road access but a more permanent fix is going

00:31to need some substantial rot protection and erosion protection to be able to make

00:36sure that that northern abutment stays in place.

00:39It's really difficult to say how quickly it'll be repaired.

00:43Whatever the river is flowing the way that it is, it makes it almost impossible for us to get in

00:49there and do any earthworks so it's really going to be a wait and see.

00:53So we'd like to think that it would be back with temporary access within the

00:58next few weeks but you know we certainly can't guarantee it depending on the weather.

01:01We've got a 3,000km road network, it takes us a while to get around that and some of those

01:07locations have been quite isolated. We've got some concerns about what we might find up above

01:12Limbride. The Coburn River flowed very full, it's obviously the highest flow up there that

01:17we've had in nearly 20 years and there's a couple of bridges up there that are susceptible to damage

01:22so we'll be getting up there hopefully sometime today or tomorrow and assess what that looks like.

01:27We'll see what that looks like.

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