Guardrails on seven bridges in the Byron Shire will be replaced after the NSW Government's Transport for NSW approved an application for flood recovery funding.
The force of water and debris during the 2022 floods resulted in extensive damage to the guardrails on:
- Booyong Bridge (Booyong)
- Donaghy's Bridge (Goonengerry)
- Jubilee Avenue (Mullumbimby)
- Keys Bridge (Federal)
- Palmwoods Bridge (Main Arm Road)
- Pioneer Bridge (Wilsons Creek)
- Repentance Creek Bridge (Goonengerry)
- O'Meara's Bridge (Binna Burra)
"The approval of this application by Transport for NSW is great news for Council and the community," Byron Shire Mayor, Michael Lyon, said.
"The damage to infrastructure alone, from the flood, is in the vicinity of $300 million so there is a lot of repair work that is being planned, is underway, and some projects have also been completed," Mayor Lyon said.
"We packaged our flood repair work into 38 funding applications to the NSW Government and so far, 12 have been approved so there is a long way to go," he said.
The tender for the replacement of the guardrails has been awarded with work to get underway in early 2024.
Other flood funding applications that have been approved include:
- Englishes Bridge replacement (completed)
- Upper Huonbrook drainage (underway)
- Sherrys Bridge embankment scour repair
- Federal Drive reconstruction (underway)
- Gravel road resheeting on Kennedys Lane, Cedarvale Road, Durrumbul Road, Riverside Drive, The Saddle Road, Jones Road and Huonbrook Road (work to start in early 2024)
- Left Bank Road culverts and causeway
- Mulllumbimby Road repair
- Beatties Creek causeway
