May 2025

Council has an ongoing program of capital works and upgrades to buildings, parks, playgrounds and roads across the Federation Council Region. The following activities were undertaken during May 2025 by Federation Council’s Operations Works teams. 

Table Drain Maintenance 

  • Bailey Street – Mulwala drainage improvements. This month a focus was clearing table drains on rural roads. Also, customer requests when needed.

Sealed Roads

  • Numerous customer requests for pothole repairs on sealed urban and rural roads have been received and actioned with the Corowa based Flocon patching truck and the Urana based Jet Master patching truck. In particular the main focus has been in the following areas: Skehans Lane, Merton Road, Emu Park Road, Bull Plain Road, Savernake Road, Hopefield Road, Federation Way south, Oaklands, Morundah and other areas.

Slashing – Sealed Roads Shoulders

  • Slashing in Federation Way south then moving to Byrnedale Road in Rand. Also slashing at Rand then moving to Five Mile Road.

Quarries 

  • Davies Hill – Carting Gravel for various projects for the Grading Team on Regional Roads including 7km’s of maintenance grading and 2km’s of gravel road re-sheeting.

Maintenance Crew/Sundry Crew

  • Flood sign & depth marker installation.
  • Culvert cleaning/repairs.
  • Footpath maintenance/repairs.
  • Sign replacements/repairs.
  • Various guide Post replacements.
  • Working with construction crews when required.
  • Attending to customer requests. 

Sapling Removal Program from Rural Drains 

  • Works completed in: Drain Lane, McCurdies Lane,  Savernake Road, Bull Plain Road, Boat Rock Road, Balldale/Coreen Road, Izons Road, Oil Tree Lagoon Road, Howlong/Balldale Road, Balldale Road, Rennie Road, Daysdale/Walbundrie Road, Bull Plain (part of only - from Rennie Rd to Emu Park Road), Major sections of Oaklands Road (ongoing). These critical works ensure that Council’s drainage network is not impeded in the future by large trees.

Heavy Trucks

  • Carting spoil from Bullecourt Road roadworks.
  • Carting gravel for customer requests.
  • Carting stone for patching trucks, Flocon and Jetmaster.
  • Carting excess spoil from Nixon Street to Corowa Landfill for cover & capping.

TfNSW – RMCC 

  • Maintenance works under the RMCC agreement: with the current fine weather Herbicide application, pothole patching, Culvert/Headwalls maintenance and replacements will be extended to the end of May. 

Corowa Aerodrome 

  • Twice weekly inspections carried out to ensure compliance with the MOS 139. 
  • Repairs to lights as required.

Construction 1 & 2

  • Minor Patching, urban and rural roads.
  • Pothole repairs and gravel patching in urban unsealed roads.
  • Table drain maintenance, drainage and culvert works, urban and rural roads.
  • Footpath maintenance and repairs.
  • Attend call outs.
  • Service numerous customer requests.

Recreation Team Activities

  • Corowa Lawn Cemetery (South) Tree Planting: The Presentation Team have prepared the area for planting along with the installation of steel rings for visual appearance. The advanced deciduous trees were locally source with a grower in our region. The trees were grown in an air pruned system. The air pruning creates a stronger, viable root system which enables lateral roots to develop and establish structurally when transplanted. The dense root system is able to gather an immediate source of nutrients to foster vigorous growth and enable the tree to quickly establish itself when planted. The specific tree species selected for the avenue were selected as they are proven in our climate and soil types. Species selection are: Autumn Blaze (Acer x freeman) and Sawtooth Oak (Quercus acutissima). Both species will provide great colour, structure and will be long term planting for the future.

Road Safety Updates

  • Council has been successful in securing two grants in the Get NSW Active program for 2025/26. The funding received will be for two new footpaths; one in Hawkins Street Howlong, between Townsend and Read Streets. The other in John Street, Corowa behind St Mary’s Primary school. These works will commence later this year.

 

 

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