Mossman – Daintree Road, 2024 Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements reconstruction works

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[Opening Scene

On Screen Text: Jeremy, Principal Engineer (Civil)

Jeremy is wearing hi-vis and a hard hat.

He is at the bow of a boat with reconstruction works behind him on Mossman-Daintree Road just above the bank of the Daintree River and below the road level where a landslip occurred.]

So, at this site behind me, we had over 2000 mil of rain in just over six days as part of Cyclone Jasper.

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[Still image of the initial damage at the landslip site. A large landslip has undermined the edge of the road.]

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[Timelapse footage of reconstruction works taking from a high above the landslip site. Trucks, crew and heavy machinery move in an out of a benched reconstruction site below the road level which shows significant progress since the initial damage photograph.]

You can see we’re nearly finished the stabilization works, where we've had over 1.5 kilometres of soil nails that have been installed.

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[Camera cuts back to Jeremy on the boat.]

So, the next steps here is we're about to start our piling works.

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[The camera pans along the site from below the road level, a large concrete wall is in place after soil nailing and shotcrete has been completed. Cuts to a close-up of machinery wheels rolling down the access to the benched reconstruction site.]

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[Camera cuts back to Jeremy on the boat.]

We have 30 piles on the bottom bench and now we start into the works to start to bring this site back up to road level.

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[Cars moving through the single lane section of the road between the safety bollards and the rainforest.]

Although you might not be able to see much from the roadway or wonder where the workers are. You can see from this operation behind me how significant this is and how extensive some of our sites are across the Far North Road network.

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[A Drill arm attached to a 20-tonne excavator is being moved into position with a crew member operating an elevated platform assisting.]

We're working as quickly as possible in all conditions and trying to get the job done as safely and quickly as possible.

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[Wipe cut to heavy rain falling on the crew operating the same drill rig and elevated platform. They have started donning their rain-protection so they can keep working in the inclement weather.]

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[Camera cuts back to Jeremy on the boat.]

I'd ask road users to obey speed signs.

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[Camera cuts to a close-up of a traffic control signal at the site changing from green to yellow.]

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[Camera cuts back to Jeremy on the boat.]

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[Camera cuts back to Jeremy on the boat, drilling works are ongoing in the background]

The temporary traffic measures in place and protect our workers so that you and us get home safely.

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[Wipe cut to final screen]

[Delivering for Queensland

A search bar reads “DRFA Mossman–Daintree Road recovery works.

Australian Government and Queensland Government logos.

Text at the bottom reads: The Recovery works are jointly funded by the Australian and Queensland Governments through the Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements (DRFA).]