Construction is about to start on Richmond Valley Council's $15.8 million Naughtons Gap Road resilience project at Naughton's Gap, north-east of Casino, providing better access for locals after a series of severe weather events.
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00:05 It's great to be here today to start the Norton's Gap Landslip job.
00:10 Here with CMC, the head contractor for this job.
00:13 They'll also be working with a lot of subcontractors
00:15 and employing local people.
00:18 We can see today there's a team here, CMC and Geotext
00:22 and we've had a number of people involved
00:25 in getting us to where we are today.
00:27 We do also want to acknowledge the Transport for New South Wales officers
00:33 who've been involved through the journey, Anna Zickey, Dan Champness
00:36 and a range of others who've been on this site
00:39 and have helped us to secure the funding that we need.
00:44 We've got about $12 million in natural disaster funding
00:48 and $3 million in betterment funding
00:51 so that we can both fix the road, secure it
00:55 and minimise the risk of what's uphill from us here
01:00 coming down and impacting the road again in the future.
01:02 CMC are thrilled to start the commencement of these works here
01:05 at Norton's Gap project for Richmond Valley Council.
01:08 We've spent the last four months designing these works
01:10 with our design partners, BG&E and our geotech partners, FSG.
01:14 Bring together a skilled and experienced team
01:16 to design and construct this project for the council.
01:20 Our works include the construction of a bored pile wall
01:23 with the piles being up to 13 metres deep into three metres of bedrock.
01:28 At the completion of the work, the roads will be rebuilt
01:31 to secure this section of the road against future landslips.
01:35 It'll be great to have this road reopened, hopefully by the end of the year.
01:39 It's been three years now and the first slip happened in 2021,
01:44 went again in 2022 and the community has been
01:48 really disadvantaged not having this road opened going to Lismore.
01:52 It's our second main route to that town
01:55 and we appreciate the money from the government
01:58 and wish CMC all the best preparing the job.
02:02 The most important thing is to get this road back in action for our community.
02:06 We know it's been frustrating, it's been three years
02:09 and we are really looking forward to having this road back open by Christmas.
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