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Owners of heritage properties in Eurobodalla can now apply for grants to help them restore their pride and joy. Eurobodalla Council is offering grants up. ....
Date Time Araluen Road resilience work Work is underway to upgrade the temporary detour around the Knowles Creek landslide on Araluen Road. Eurobodalla Council will grade and gravel re-sheet the Forestry trails at a cost of around $450,000, taking three to four weeks to complete the work. The roadsides have also been sprayed to bring regrowth under control and maintain sight lines for those using the detour. The aim is to provide a safer route back to Moruya for residents of the Araluen valley while a permanent road solution is built. Around 70 properties are located along Araluen Road, which stretches from Moruya to Braidwood in mountainous terrain. Two landslides caused by fires and floods, one last November at Knowles Creek 23km west of Moruya and the other in May at the 43km mark near Merricumbene, have kept the road closed to all but residents. ....
Date Time Flying foxes briefly return to spruced-up camp Grey-headed flying foxes briefly returned to the Batemans Bay Water Gardens last week after an 11-month hiatus. The flying-fox camp at the Gardens had been occupied by flying-foxes each summer and autumn since they were first recorded there in 2012. However, in April 2020 the bats vacated the camp and did not return until late April this year. Eurobodalla Council’s flying fox officer Natalie Foster explained that flying foxes were very unpredictable. “We’re not sure why they did not come back to the Water Gardens until now,” she said, adding that this year, they seemed to favour the Catalina golf course, as well as camps in Moruya, Tuross Head and Narooma. ....
Date Time Dam good announcement in federal budget Eurobodalla Council is celebrating the announcement of $51.2 million funding for the shire’s new southern water storage in last night’s federal budget. The Council now has three quarters of the funding for the $105 million project, after the NSW Government also allocated $25.6 million last year. Council will fund the remainder. The 3,000 megalitre storage will be built west of Bodalla, pumping water from the Tuross River in times of high flow to an off-stream storage and water treatment plant. It will complement Council’s Deep Creek Dam and water treatment plant in Batemans Bay, providing drought security and bushfire resilience, and increasing capacity for peak holiday water demand and predicted population growth. ....
Eurobodalla Council is helping farmers tackle agricultural weeds following the bushfires and drought. The Council is offering on-farm control of high-risk weeds such as blackberry, bitou bush, African lovegrass and lantana and other problematic weeds, thanks to funding from the Australian Government. Primary producer Keith Dance recently took advantage of the program to help with blackberry control on his Belowra farm. He said it gave him one less thing to worry about while he worked to restore his property post-fires. “After the fires we had priorities everywhere else – blackberries were just one of those things in the too hard basket,” he said. ....