Thread: bit wet in Esperance

Jamo,
I dont think the road will even be close to being open on Monday. The surveyor I spoke to reckons we will be lucky if we can divert traffic around this area within a week. More like 3 weeks. Did a run out last night and had a look. There are pics in the gallery. Will try and load some here. BHP have charted a plane to fly us out on Monday night back to Esperance and another for Friday, so this is probablly some sort of indication on how long.

SW Hwy at Oldfield River, just west of Munglinup. Still 800mm of water flowing this morning. Usually no flow at all this time of year. Usually mor like a creek.






Lee road, the road form site to the Ravensthorpe airport. Not expected to open until Monday. SW Hwy closed with exemption to transport people by bus from site via Rav to airport.

Big job to fix that one!!!!!
Hopefully the bridge isnt too damaged once the water drops.Looks like its taken the bank out.
Andrew

Same thing happened in 1999, except then three bridges went out the same way (one of which had gone only two years prior). Took them about 6 weeks to get the abutments back in order and then they finally replaced one bridge entirely last year.

Detours will have to wait until the gravel roads dry out.

The papers called in 'once in a lifetime'. Rubbish. I'm sure I was alive in 1997 and 1999 and all the other times it's happened prior to this one.