November 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 November 2025 by Federation Council’s Operations Works teams. 

Table Drain Maintenance 

The main focus has been clearing town table drains in rural & urban areas.

Sealed Roads

Numerous customer requests for pothole repairs on sealed urban and rural roads have been received with many actioned with the Corowa based Flo-Con patching truck and the Urana based Jet Master patching truck.

Main areas of focus have been Federation Way south, Back Berrigan Road, Cocketgedong Road and townships.

Slashing – Sealed Roads Shoulders

  • Merton Road
  • Bull Plain Road
  • Redlands Road
  • Federation Way
  • Corowa Road

Quarries

A Request for Quotation (RFQ) has been issued for the winning and mixing of 20,000 tons of material in the Urana Screen Pit in December for gravel road re-sheeting in the new year.

Balldale – Blasting is completed and crushing of 30,000 tons commenced on December 1, 2025. The crushing schedule is a 4-week process with the majority of the material for resheeting Council roads.

Davies Hill – Blasting is completed with crushing planned of 28,000 tons of material for late February.

Maintenance Crew/Sundry Crew

  • Culvert cleaning/repairs.
  • Footpath maintenance/repairs.
  • Sign replacements/repairs.
  • Various guide post and general sign replacements.
  • Working with construction crews when required.
  • Attending to customer requests.

6 Meter Tree Clearance Zones in Howlong

With the increased volume of heavy vehicles utilising roads around Howlong a program has been developed for Drew Lane, Howlong-Goombargana Road, and Kywong Howlong Road.

The program’s main purpose is to ensure a 6-meter wide vegetation zone, so trucks can travel safely using the designated roads, and mitigate heavy vehicle traffic through the Howlong township. Council engaged qualified arborists to undertake these important safety works, and to ensure compliance with relevant pruning standards and safety protocols.

Culvert Update Program

Council will be undertaking an upgrade of four culverts on Federation Way near Coles Road, heading towards Coreen Village.

The work involves replacing the existing separated and outdated flush joint pipes with rubber ring joint pipes and headwalls. The culverts require replacement due to pipe separation issues. Upon completion of these four culverts, the crew will then move to Hopefield Road for similar works.

Heavy Trucks

  • Carting gravel from Urana screen pit to Doctors Road re-sheeting.
  • Carting gravel for customer requests of maintenance grading.
  • Carting stone for patching trucks, Flocon and Jetmaster. 

TfNSW – RMCC 

Maintenance works under the RMCC agreement.

With the fine weather leading into next month, the works of tree maintenance, signage, pothole patching, shoulder weed spraying will continue.

Corowa Aerodrome 

Twice weekly inspections undertaken that ensure compliance with the MOS 139.

Council staff have been working closely with CASA Officials to satisfy the requirements of the recent Surveillance Report. A total of 6 Safety Observations were identified in the report and 12 Safety Findings.

Funding to rectify these issues will be identified in the 26/27 draft budgets for Council’s consideration. It is noted Safety Findings rectification works cannot be ignored as that may place the airport at risk of closure. CASA Officials have been impressed with Council’s responses and cooperation in relation to the report to date.

Construction 1 & 2

  • General table drain maintenance.
  • Storm water minor repairs, urban and rural roads.
  • Footpath repairs and gravel patching in urban unsealed roads.
  • Signage, drainage and culvert works, urban and rural roads.
  • Footpath / Kerb maintenance and repairs.
  • Work Requests
  • Attend Call Outs.

Landfills

  • Howlong: Ongoing investigation for potential construction of another waste cell.
  • Corowa: Business as usual.
  • Mulwala: Business as usual.

Download the full report for Outdoor Works below.

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