By Dominique Tassell
Southern Downs Regional Council (SDRC) anticipates that “many millions of dollars” will be required to repair the damage done to the regions’ roads after recent floods.
SDRC CEO Dave Burges said they don’t know exactly how many roads have been damaged but are doing “emergent works” and trying to make roads as safe as possible.
He said SDRC cannot currently get to some roads to perform repairs as “they’re that badly damaged” and the ground is still so wet.
Mr Burges said SDRC is working on this, but it may take time.
After emergent repairs are done, SDRC will then turn their attention to logging all the damage in the region.
Mr Burges said this needs to be done in an extremely detailed manner in order to satisfy the Queensland Reconstruction Authority.
SDRC will liaise with the Queensland Reconstruction Authority to start putting submissions in for restoration.
He said, suffice to say, they expect the region will require “many millions of dollars” in repairs.
“We’ve got a lot of damage down here on the Granite Belt,” he said.
SDRC provided this newspaper with images of Messines Road, Donnellys Castle Road, Barracks Road, and the Kyoomba Guardrail, which are reported to be some of the most damaged in the region.
Locals can alert SDRC to damaged roads through the MySDRC app.
