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Mt Rosea and Bundaleer Re-opening Progress 11-Dec-2012 At 5:08:20 PM Access T CliffCare

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I'm waiting to hear back on further information as to what stage the contractors are at and the time frame we are looking at and will go from there.

Some of the reasons to take into account why it has been taking so long - The damage to the track was the flood event. They only recently received insurance money to cover the repairs to a number of places. And possibly like a few other repair jobs in the park, not all is covered by insurance and the park are then required to make up the difference. The track received some damage down lower(where we access it) which wasn't too bad in the grand scheme of things but there are other parts where it is now not possible to have the track due to really serious damage. The track has needed to be realigned through a new area. This takes quite a while to assess where the best place would be and is it viable. As it is a new track that has to be cut and ground disturbed, this then needs to have an application put in for it to be assessed by an Indigenous cultural heritage team. All new tracks and works that PV do that disturb ground are required to undergo this. All of this takes time and money and unfortunately that isn't something that PV has a lot of.
I did discuss the possbility of climbers accessing it. The problem is Rosea is a really popular area with a number of user groups who want to access it and who have been asking as much as we have. If they allow climbers to access it, then they have little leg to stand on to tell the other groups they are not allowed to.
In the bigger picture, what is really disturbing is that budget cuts and 'streamlining' of our parks service are making it more and more difficult to get these kind of works done in a decent timeline.

Cheers,
Tracey