“Shotcrete” spraying takes places as part of the road repairs on Brown Mountain. Photo: Transport for NSW.
Works to repair two more landslip sites on problem-plagued Brown Mountain will begin this month and are expected to finish by the end of the year.
Transport for NSW’s regional director south, Cassandra Ffrench, said extensive repairs had already been carried out at three landslip sites along the Snowy Mountains Highway.
Ms Ffrench said a contract had been awarded to RIX Asset Management to carry out the repair work on the next two sites beginning today (9 September).
The first site is about 2.5 kilometres west of the Brown Mountain Power Station, while the second is about a kilometre further west.
The works have been funded by the Federal and State governments and will include removing loose soil and rocks, installing soil nails and then adding mesh and sprayed concrete, also known as “shotcrete”.
Ms Ffrench said natural disasters had had a devastating impact on travel through Brown Mountain and she understood the inconvenience this had caused motorists.
“These projects take time, and crews are making significant progress to work through each area and restore the road to its pre-disaster condition,” she said.
This map shows the landslip sites on Brown Mountain as of September 2024. Photo: Transport for NSW.
There will be changed traffic conditions, including a reduced speed limit of 40 km/h single lane closure, traffic signals and barriers to separate vehicles from the work area.
When work starts at the first site, four natural disaster recovery sites will be under traffic control on Snowy Mountains Highway at Brown Mountain for three weeks.
Transport aims to complete work at seven of the nine landslip damage sites before the end of the calendar year.
Landslips, rockfalls and repairs are common on the section of the Snowy Mountains Highway that covers the mountain and a community group has previously taken aim at what it perceives as government inaction to fix the problems.
In June, it was announced that $1.9 million would be used to fix a landslip site about 1.5 km east of the Fred Piper Memorial Lookout.
For more information on traffic conditions, visit Live Traffic NSW by clicking here.
Original Article published by Albert McKnight on About Regional.
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