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May 15, 2014
Levers Road at Tablelands may re-open by the end of the year.
A community consultation meeting held last night at Tablelands Hall decided the best way to re-open the road would be to rebuild a section of it north of the existing road.
The cost of the rebuild is expected to be about $1.2 million and would involve some land resumptions from an adjoining property.
But this is roughly one quarter the cost of replacing the existing section, which is estimated to be $4.5 million.
Levers Road has been closed since June last year after a catastrophic landslip left Council engineers concerned that a complete road collapse was imminent.
Traffic has been diverted around the landslip ever since, forcing drivers to travel several extra kilometres.
At a public meeting last December, local residents were told there were three options to solve the problem: a “like for like” replacement, reworking the road on a new alignment, or leaving the road permanently closed.
However since a “like for like” replacement would cost almost 10 per cent of the Council’s annual budget, they were told this option was very unlikely.
The meeting then voted for Council to further investigate the remaining two options.
The results were presented to last night’s meeting, which was attended by 14 residents, Council officers and Division 5 Cr Kathy Duff.
Cr Duff, who chaired the meeting, told southburnett.com.au today Council would seek money for the project from the Queensland Reconstruction Authority.
Tenders are expected to be called in September and if all goes well, she’s hopeful the road will re-open by the end of the year.
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- Levers Road Solution Closer?
- Council Looks At Levers Road Options
- Landslip Collapse ‘Imminent’
- Landslip Forces Repairs
