Bellingen/Bowraville road

The Bellingen/Bowraville Road was badly damaged by storms early in 2009. This included Hanly's bridge over the Kalang. Further damage to Hanly's bridge lead to its closure to traffic in November 2012 This blog shows the original damage and new information is being added as further progress or regress happens. Natural Disaster funding was approved in 2010 and work started at Spicketts Creek in 2013. There are a lot of photographs, click on "older posts" when the photos stop.

Monday, May 15, 2017

Photographs of repairs on Bowraville side of Bellingen Road 15 May 2017

The following photographs were taken about one kilometre from the top of Bellingen Road on the way down to wards Bowraville. It was 4pm and rather shady where the photos were taken

Thanks to Tony for driving me up there. Near the summit on the Spicketts Creek side there were signs of clearing on corners for later repair work. Near the top, the road was in better condition than reported on 5 May see http://bowbells.blogspot.com.au/2017_05_11_archive.html

gabion baskets

filling gabion baskets on corner

very wet road

working on repairs across the valley

gabion baskets in place across the valley

Thursday, May 11, 2017

photographs of damage to Bellingen road Spicketts Creek end of road 11 May 2017

There is considerable damage to Bellingen road on the Spicketts Creek end of Bellingen Road more than 1 kilometre from the top of the road before it goes down to Bowraville.

The following photographs were taken walking up the the hill after parking beside an unnamed fire trail on the right on the way up the hill. We passed another fire trail on the left , also not named, but turned around before reaching Valley Valley Road.

The larger photographs show a ditch very close to the road edge, that corner likely to wash in the event of heavy rain