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The cost of sealing the region’s roads was a topic of discussion at February’s Infrastructure Standing Committee meeting after staff reported an apparent cost drop of 58 per cent between 2019-20 and 2020-21<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Roads Portfolio chair Cr Gavin Jones<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

February 4, 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n

South Burnett Regional Council’s Works Department has a busy month of roadworks scheduled for the region.<\/p>\n

Roads portfolio chair Cr Gavin Jones said works crews completed gravel resheeting and a heavy formation grade on Greenwood Creek Road at Nanango during January.<\/p>\n

They will be carrying out similar work on the Kingaroy-Burrandowan, Maidenwell-Upper Yarraman and Memerambi-Gordonbrook roads in February.<\/p>\n

Crews will also be carrying out patrol grades on 61 roads in Brooklands, Charlestown, Cushnie, East Nanango, Goodger, Nanango, Tingoora, Wilkesdale and Wooroolin during February.<\/p>\n

Similar patrol grades were completed on 22 roads at Barker Creek Flats, Boyneside, Dangore, Hodgleigh, Kunioon, Melrose and South Nanango last month.<\/p>\n

UPDATE March 5:\u00a0\u00a0Council has advised that gravel resheeting of Maidenwell-Upper Yarraman Road at Neumgna has been delayed. Crews are expected to begin works on March 8.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The cost of sealing the South Burnett’s roads dropped from $32,181 per kilometre to $20,272 per kilometre last year, but this did not necessarily indicate a massive productivity improvement.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Infrastructure Planning manager James Darcy – who presented the figures to Wednesday’s Infrastructure Standing Committee meeting – said several factors affected road sealing costs.<\/p>\n

These could include different seal widths; more efficient preparation works; and efficient seal design and program management.<\/p>\n

Mr Darcy said while Council officers were continuing to find better and more efficient ways to carry out road seals, the apparently sizable difference between the average 2019-20 and 2020-21 reseal costs was not quite as big as it seemed.<\/p>\n

Resealing a larger proportion of single-lane roads or resealing more roads that required less preparation could cause average cost figures to swing sharply from one year to the next.<\/p>\n

Recent cuts in the price of bitumen also played a part, Mr Darcy said.<\/p>\n

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A burst of summer heat and rain has forced Council to ramp up its road slashing program.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mayor Brett Otto told Wednesday’s meeting he had asked for three extra contract slashers to join Council’s four existing slashers.<\/p>\n

He said slashing crews were hard-pressed to cover the region’s road network at present.<\/p>\n

However, he hoped the extra contractors would mean most roadsides would be brought under control by the end of February.<\/p>\n

The Mayor said Council normally slashed the 1153km sealed road network twice a year at a cost of $330,000.<\/p>\n

Boom mowing cost an extra $120,000, which brought the total annual cost of keeping the road network’s edges tidy to $450,000.<\/p>\n

Herbicide spraying – which is carried out in some years – could add a further $45,000.<\/p>\n

Mayor Otto said the cost of the contract slashers called in to handle this summer’s overflow will be $45,000, but this is not expected to affect total annual outlays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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