Community & Business
23 January, 2025
Crossing near completion
WORKS are ongoing at the Cobra Creek crossing on Emerald End Road, after the section of road washed away during the 2023 Cyclone Jasper flooding event.
“It is great to see the recent progress being made at Cobra Creek crossing,” Mareeba Mayor Angela Toppin said.
After significant flooding in 2023, the crossing completely washed away and left over 100 residents cut off and without water service for several days.
As a temporary measure, council created a side track and one-lane bridge to restore access to residents.
Since the damage was caused, a water main was reinstated, and a large concrete base installed at the crossing as well as box culverts.
Just before Christmas, work crews were backfilling the culverts and moving on to pouring the downstream headwall and wingwalls.
The new design is expected to create a structure better able to withstand the strong creek flows of future wet seasons.
Mayor Toppin said the project was expected to be fully completed early in the new year.
