Funding received for Fawcetts Plain Road works
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Relief is on the way for motorists who regularly use Fawcetts Plain Road.
Council has received $2.05 million in funding under the Natural Disaster Relief and Recovery Arrangements to repair the full length of the 8.3km road and undertake drainage improvements.
The road was inundated during the 2022 flood event and has deteriorated significantly since then.
Council has been patching the road as best it can while waiting for flood repair funding approval for the remediation project.
Work on the project, which will also incorporate repairs to the Green Pigeon and Horseshoe Creek road, is expected to start in early December and take until March to complete, weather permitting.
Council’s road construction crew will start work on the Green Pigeon and Horseshoe Creek Roads first and then move to Fawcetts Plain Road.
Council has deliberately scheduled the work program this way so that heavy road construction vehicles are not travelling across the newly repaired Fawcetts Plain Road on their way to Green Pigeon and Horseshoe Creek Roads.
Council is expecting to have completed the Green Pigeon and Horseshoe Creek road repairs and have started on the drainage works on Fawcetts Plain Road (including re-instating and cleaning drains, and installing new culverts) before Christmas.
Fawcetts Plain Road will remain open under traffic control while the work is completed.