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Past king tide water in Tamar Street. Photo Tree Faerie Ballina Shire Council is encouraging motorists to drive safely over the coming days with king tides leading to minor flooding of some local roads. Where possible, motorists, motorcyclists, pedestrians and cyclists should avoid affected roadways. Motorists are reminded the tides will be occurring during the mornings, and that salt water may also affect maintenance of vehicle and bodywork. Roads likely to be affected by king tides and saltwater flooding in Ballina include: Tamar Street; Riverside Drive and River Street and Burns Point Ferry Road, West Ballina; North Creek Road and Southern Cross Drive, North Ballina; Uralba Road, Uralba; Old Bangalow Road, Tintenbar, and; Tamarind Dr, Cumbalum ....
Alan Veacock, Cumbalum What an outstanding effort by Liberal MLC Catherine Cusack, to stand up to the premier and a belligerent National Party to thwart what would have been a death sentence for what remains of the koala population in NSW. Take a bow Catherine, you have done a great service for the koalas and your community that passionately support them. John (Pork) Barilaro and Clarence MP Chris Galaptus claiming ‘farmers deserve certainty’ is farcical. Do the koalas deserve extinction? One has only to watch great programs like Landline on our poorly funded ABC to see that a growing number of farmers are actually replanting koala trees on their property in an effort to reintroduce these iconic marsupials. ....
Ross Lane @ Deadmans Creek Marom Creek Road (between Tucki Road to Rous Mill Road) Marom Creek Road @ Youngman Creek Marom Creek Road @ Yellow Creek Marom Creek Road @ Gum Creek Water is over the following roads, please proceed with CAUTION: Dalwood Road @ Youngmans Creek Tamarind Drive between North Creek Road and Cumbalum Interchange Teven Road @ B&B Timbers Watsons Lane @ Emigrant Creek. River Drive, Empire Vale – reduced to one lane Due to bank erosion, River Drive near 394 is reduced to one lane with traffic lights. Council will undertake restoration works as soon as possible. Road conditions, in both urban and rural areas, can change very quickly as water levels continue to rise in some locations. King tide hit its peak at 9.38am this morning. Please delay unnecessary travel and keep informed of changing road and weather conditions. ....
Premium Content Subscriber only UPDATE, 1pm: WEATHER experts have acknowledged there is a lot of uncertainty about the weather event that will hit the Northern Rivers over the next few days. Weatherwatch meteorologist Anthony Cornelius said the weather system had an unusual pattern . I m calling this a hybrid low - but there s a case to say that it s just an East Coast Low too, he posted on his Facebook page. But I feel there s some tropical characteristics to this hence calling it a hybrid. In a nutshell - yes there s the potential this system could be fairly nasty, but we ll have to wait and see where things settle (so don t panic yet). ....