Timber bridge work continues despite drought pressures

Updated July 9 2019 - 3:32pm, first published July 8 2019 - 11:47am
Council staff work on repairs to the Deepwater River Bridge on Castlerag Road. It was one of nine timber bridge projects completed over the past 12 months, with three more due to be finished soon.
Council staff work on repairs to the Deepwater River Bridge on Castlerag Road. It was one of nine timber bridge projects completed over the past 12 months, with three more due to be finished soon.

Although the current drought and increasing water dilemma has taken the focus off issues relating to Tenterfield Shire Council's aging timber bridge infrastructure, Mayor Peter Petty assured the community that works have been continuing and council's bridge crews, engineering staff and contractors have been steadily working through the mammoth task.

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