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Paekoa Rd seal extension

Tuesday 5 February 2008, 7:59PM

By Whakatane District Council

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WHAKATANE

Whakatane District Council will start seal extension of 4km Paekoa road on Thursday 7 February 2008 at a cost of $400,000.

The Council’s Director of Works and Services Haydn Read says the seal extension work will see 4km of the road being sealed as part of the Council’s $1.6million 2007/08 seal extension programme to seal 8km of the district road network. The work to

He says in addition to Paekoa road, 2.2km of Ruatahuna road ($260 000), Wairaka road ($805, 000) completing Burt road ($157,000) will be sealed under the programme. There are also a number of other road improvements projects which have been completed or scheduled for completion by June this year. These include replacing Putiki single lane bridge with a two lane culvert; application for resource consent for works the Ohope Hill upgrade from Mokorua Gorge to the Cabbage Tree Corner.

He says Paekoa road and Ruatahuna road seal is subsided by the Land Transport New Zealand at 55% and 75% respectively.