Wednesday January 31, 2024
Volume 39 No. 02
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The Cobar Weekly Man flees police barefoot into bushland Pg 2
Water restrictions may soon be lifted Pg 2
Australia Day award winners
Pg 3, 8, 15 & 16
Industrial area upgrade set to commence
The long awaited upgrade of the Cobar program, however the NSW Government has this for council however this project will be Industrial Estate is set to commence next discontinued the program. their biggest for council to date. month. “Council will continue to actively pursue And while he already employs a staff of 14, Cobar Shire Council has engaged a local funding opportunities to complete the construc- Mr Martin said he’ll need to recruit more staff civil, mining and construction contractor, tion phase of the stage 2 and 3 works,” Mr to complete this project and continue to fulfill Cynend Building & Construction, to carry out Vlatko said. his other existing mining, civil and construcStage 1 of the works. Cynend principal Shane Martin said they tion contracts. Council’s general manager Peter Vlatko said have carried out a number of similar jobs like Continued Page 2. council was very pleased to announce work would commence in the next two to three weeks. “This follows finalisation of the detailed designs and specifications for the works along with a competitive procurement process to appoint a construction contractor to deliver the works,” Mr Vlatko said. Stage 1 works include the upgrade of Old Bourke Road between the Barrier Highway and Campbell Street and the full length of Campbell Street between Old Bourke Road and Dunstan Street. The work involves upgrading the existing swale drains to increase their capacity and reduce the impacts of localised flooding. New drainage culverts and headwalls will be installed at the intersection of Gibbes and Campbell streets and also at the intersection of Hartman and Campbell streets. Stage 1 works also include the installation of new roadside drainage pipes, inlet pits, new kerbing, upgrading the roads to accommodate oversized vehicles and new asphalt. Mr Vlatko said while the detailed designs for stages 2 and 3 of the project have also been completed and the stormwater pipes, culverts and pits for these stages of work have been purchased, funding for the next two stages of Cobar Shire Council’s general manager Peter Vlatko and local contractor Shane Martin the project has yet to be secured. He said council had been planning to fund from Cynend Building & Construction, looking over the plans for the Stage 1 upgrade of the work through the Resources for Regions the Industrial Estate.