Landslips on Welshs Creek Road now fixed
Published on 06 March 2026
Landslip remediation works have progressed well with two slips on Welshs Creek Road now fixed and works are underway to repair the large slip near Johns Bridge, Missabotti.
Nambucca Valley Mayor Gary Lee said it was excellent to see works happening on-the-ground, following geotechnical assessments, reassessments after further flood events, and negotiation with government.
“Two landslip sites along Welsh’s Creek Road, caused by flooding in 2022, have now been repaired using engineered rock fill over the past month,” he said.
“This is excellent progress by the principal contractors Council has engaged to deliver the works and I am pleased action is happening.
“Yesterday I also visited Johns Bridge at Missabotti, where workers have put in environmental controls and they have just started installing the first few steel sheet piles, which will safeguard the rockfill works to come and then be removed after the rockfill is placed.
“There’s still a lot more work to go over the next two to three years to remediate up to 90 landslip sites across our valley. I thank our community for its patience and compliance with traffic control instructions and traffic diversions, necessary to enable the work and ultimately make our roads safer.”
Significant landslip remediation works are also scheduled to occur on these roads in early to mid-2026:
- Piggot Street, Nambucca Heads
- River Street, Macksville
- Riverside Drive, Nambucca Heads
- Taylors Arm Rd, at Congarinni, Burrapine, and Thumb Creek
- Upper Buckra Bendinni Road, Buckra Bendinni.
To learn what if any remediation works are happening in your area, you can visit Council’s website and access the disaster recovery interactive map available here. Or you can download the digital app, Antenno, onto your smart phone, which will enable you to receive work notifications happening in your area.
Disaster recovery works are funded by the NSW Reconstruction Authority and Council thanks the Federal and State Governments for the funding to repair essential public infrastructure.
ALL MEDIA ENQUIRIES TO:
Mr Bede Spannagle
GENERAL MANAGER
02 6568 2555
Bede Spannagle
GENERAL MANAGER
DATE: 6 March 2026