It’s getting towards that situation for some rural property owners too, but not just because water is running low. Some roads in Tamworth Regional Council’s area are so bad that water carriers are refusing to cart water along them, which is denying farms in those areas of emergency water supplies. We had a delivery last week and our road is approaching that condition with the truck driver complaining about our road, with a headlight shaken loose by the corrugations, and damaged tyres from the sharp rocks. The tyres cost him $900 each to replace… and a couple of days ago I noticed a headlight beside the road in one of the worst sections of corrugations- looking rather similar to the loose one from the water truck.
Large numbers of trucks travelling along dirt roads with loads of cattle shipping out, or hay coming in is really hammering the roads to a diabolically bad condition.
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