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Katie Woolf spoke with Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Logistics, General Manager of Transport and Civil Services Louise McCormick · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: We know that one of the popular spots in Nightcliff,
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  Speaker 1: it has been temporarily closed due to safety fears. Joining
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  Speaker 1: us on the line to tell us why is the
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  Speaker 1: Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Logistics, General Manager of Transport
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  Speaker 1: and Civil Services Louise McCormack. Good morning to Louise.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning Katie.
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  Speaker 1: How are you very well? Thank you, thanks for your
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  Speaker 1: time this morning. Are Louise? Why is the Nightcliff Jetty
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  Speaker 1: temporarily closed?
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  Speaker 2: So we've had our routine inspection carried out on the
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  Speaker 2: jetty with the low tides that we've had recently, and
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  Speaker 2: when we had those low tides that actually uncovered that
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  Speaker 2: there's some of the key structural members have got heavy
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  Speaker 2: amounts of corrosion and rust on them and were received
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  Speaker 2: the report just yesterday. For safety reasons, we thought we'd
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  Speaker 2: close just to make sure everyone is safe. But we
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  Speaker 2: will have structural engineers out there to go and do
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  Speaker 2: a bit more detailed inspection and work out a repair
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  Speaker 2: for it as well.
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  Speaker 1: Louise, how long do you anticipate that it's going to
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  Speaker 1: be closed?
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  Speaker 2: Potentially about a month, but the works will be contingent
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  Speaker 2: on the tides because they are below water level, so
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  Speaker 2: we'll be working with the tides, but hopefully about a
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  Speaker 2: month and we'll have it back open again.
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  Speaker 1: And so is it an extensive work that needs to
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  Speaker 1: be done or is it something that you anticipate, you know,
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  Speaker 1: is going to be the type of work that we've
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  Speaker 1: got to do for years to come.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. It's a lightweight structure in a really aggressive environment.
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  Speaker 2: So the salt water that the sea brings up there
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  Speaker 2: actually exacerbates corrosion and rust on the structure. So that's
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  Speaker 2: why we undertake the routine inspection of the jetty, particularly
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  Speaker 2: after the wet season, to make sure everything's safe. So
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  Speaker 2: it is something we continually do on marine structures, and
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  Speaker 2: particularly Nightcliff jetty, because it isn't a fairly exposed location there,
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  Speaker 2: so it's.
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  Speaker 1: Not sort of an unusual thing to have happen.
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  Speaker 2: No, not for that type of environment. It definitely isn't.
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  Speaker 2: You may remember a few years ago with the cyclone
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  Speaker 2: where the piles were knocked out from underneath their footings.
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  Speaker 2: That's pretty unusual for that sort of jetty, But rust
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  Speaker 2: and corrosion on a steel structure in a sea environment's
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  Speaker 2: pretty common, and that's why we do our routine maintenance
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  Speaker 2: and inspections, but it's just the corrosion is just that
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  Speaker 2: much more than it has been previously, that it's not
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  Speaker 2: safe to walk across at this point in time.
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  Speaker 1: And Louise, like you said, those inspectors will be heading
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  Speaker 1: out there pretty much immediately. Is that today that that's happening.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So the people that did the inspection, they're currently
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  Speaker 2: getting a structural engineer on board. We haven't locked in
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  Speaker 2: a time yet, but we're moving as quickly as we can.
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  Speaker 2: We've just put that order out this morning, so hopefully
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  Speaker 2: as soon as we can.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And then once that work has or once that
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  Speaker 1: inspection has happened, do you anticipate that the work that
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  Speaker 1: needs to be done will happen fairly well immediately. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: We've actually issued an urgent repair request to our contractors,
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  Speaker 2: so as soon as we've got a repair method, it
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  Speaker 2: will be done almost immediately.
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  Speaker 1: Well. Our Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Logistics, General Manager
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  Speaker 1: of Transport and Civil Services, Louise McCormack. Always appreciate your time.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for having a chat with us today.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you having me.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks Louise,