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Tamworth council updates community on flooding damage
The Northern Daily Leader
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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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The repair of the bridge itself should be not overly complicated, the concrete
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structure appears to still be in good condition. The river itself has a steep
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vertical face on the northern bank and obviously that's eroded and started to
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push to the north and it's allowed water to get around the northern abutment of
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the bridge so initially we'll just try to do a temporary repair where we can get
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some earthworks in and re-establish road access but a more permanent fix is going
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to need some substantial rot protection and erosion protection to be able to make
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sure that that northern abutment stays in place.
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It's really difficult to say how quickly it'll be repaired.
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Whatever the river is flowing the way that it is, it makes it almost impossible for us to get in
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there and do any earthworks so it's really going to be a wait and see.
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So we'd like to think that it would be back with temporary access within the
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next few weeks but you know we certainly can't guarantee it depending on the weather.
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We've got a 3,000km road network, it takes us a while to get around that and some of those
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locations have been quite isolated. We've got some concerns about what we might find up above
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Limbride. The Coburn River flowed very full, it's obviously the highest flow up there that
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we've had in nearly 20 years and there's a couple of bridges up there that are susceptible to damage
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so we'll be getting up there hopefully sometime today or tomorrow and assess what that looks like.
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We'll see what that looks like.
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