Roads Project Updates

We conduct regular routine inspections on our local network and investigate problems and requests reported by the community. The routine inspections are conducted by our road stewards who drive and walk the assigned inspection routes. The stewards identify, measure and record defects in accordance with our intervention levels. These defects are then recorded in our asset management system.  This provides a measure of the condition of each road, which can be used to establish our routine maintenance and capital work requirements. Through the collation of defect data, programs are then created with consideration of risk, road hierarchy and resources.

April

  • Beatrice
  • Danbulla
  • Herberton
  • Millaa Millaa
  • Moregatta
  • Ravenshoe

April

  • Gunnawarra

Sections of roads across the region will be resealed to improve skid resistance and waterproofing, and to extend the life of the underlying road surface.

Contract FNQ038 for the regional bitumen reseal program with FGF Bitumen Pty Ltd was varied to include the resealing program for 2025–26 for $1,749,860.52 excluding GST (estimated). Works are scheduled for April–June 2026.

  • 37m Access Road (intersection of Lamb and Tinaroo Falls Dam roads towards parking area), Tinaroo — Completed
  • 1.1km Ault Road, Topaz — Completed
  • 4.9km of Cashmere-Kirrama Road, Minnamoolka over two sections —Completed
  • 1.6km Danbulla Road, Danbulla over two sections — Completed
  • 80m of Dirran Street, Millaa Millaa — Completed
  • 10.0km of Gunnawarra Road, Gunnawarra over three sections — Completed
  • 569m of Mandalee Road, Innot Hot Springs — Completed
  • 712m of Moomin Road, Moomin — Completed
  • 348m of Perry Road, Middlebrook over two sections — Completed
  • 108m of Stansfield Road, Millaa Millaa — Completed
  • 2.5km of Wooroora Road, Millstream over three sections — Completed

Roads damaged by Cyclone Jasper will be repaired including gravel resheeting, heavy and medium formation grading, patch repairs, and pothole repairs. Work is expected to start in late July and continue through to March 2026. Roads marked ‘Completed’ may be subject to testing.

Download the kml file of roads to be restored for use in Google Earth and Queensland Globe. Google Earth provides additional information e.g. lengths of work, etc. Contact us if we can help you load the file.

Assistance provided through the jointly-funded Commonwealth-State Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements.

Photos ©Aro Industries.

Atherton

  • Dawson Road — completed
  • Gargans Lane — late April
  • Isabelle Street East — completed

Barrine

  • Thorpe Road — completed

Beatrice

  • Biggs Road East — completed
  • Biggs Road West — completed
  • Kjellberg Road — completed
  • Lager Bend Road — completed
  • Mullins Road — completed
  • Pheasant Road — completed
  • Whiting Road — completed

Carrington

  • Carrington Road — late April
  • Cloutier Road — late April

Danbulla

  • Danbulla Road — completed

East Barron

  • Knowles Road — completed
  • Lee Hong Road — mid April
  • Moseley Road — completed
  • Old Kulara Road — mid April
  • Pinnacle Pocket Road — mid April

Ellinjaa

  • Ellinjaa Road — completed
  • Kelly Road — completed
  • Watson Road — completed

Evelyn

  • Chilverton Road — completed
  • Go Tack Road — completed
  • Hill Road — completed
  • Jubb Road — completed
  • Keid Road — completed
  • Pickles Road — completed
  • Ross Road — completed
  • Smith Road — completed

Glen Allyn

  • Bauld Road — completed
  • Lindsay Road — completed

Gunnawarra

  • Gunnawarra Road — completed

Herberton

  • Amy Street — completed
  • Cassell Road — completed
  • Creek Street — completed
  • Ellie Street — completed
  • James Street — completed
  • River Terrace — completed

Innot Hot Springs

  • Konig Road — completed
  • Glen Gordon Road — completed
  • Herbert River Road — completed
  • Uramo Road — completed
  • Woodleigh Road — completed
  • Yourka-Glen Gordon Road — completed

Jaggan

  • Clarkes Track — completed

Kaban

  • Old Kaban Road — completed
  • Perrot Road — completed
  • Poletti Road — completed

Kairi

  • Forsyth Road — late April

Kalunga

  • Foster Road — completed
  • Sixth Division Road — completed

Kirrama

  • Cashmere Kirrama Road — completed
  • Kirrama Road — completed

Koombooloomba

  • Blunder Park Road — completed
  • Tully Falls Weir Road — completed

Lake Eacham

  • Cutler Road — completed
  • Russell Road West — completed
  • Sewell Road — mid April

Maalan

  • Sutties Gap Road — completed

Malanda

  • Davies Road — completed
  • Glen Allyn Road — completed
  • Lindsay Road — completed
  • Merragallan Road — completed
  • Waugh Road — completed

Middlebrook

  • Barter Road — completed
  • Middlebrook Road — completed

Millaa Millaa

  • Barter Road — completed
  • Maple Street — completed
  • Stansfield Road — completed
  • Woolleys Road — completed

Millstream

  • Wild River Road — completed
  • Wooroora Road — completed

Minnamoolka

  • Cashmere Kirrama Road — completed
  • Glen Dhu Station Road — completed
  • Meadowbank Road — completed
  • Wairuna Road — completed

Mount Garnet

  • Agate Street — completed
  • Brownville Road — completed
  • Coolgarra Road — completed
  • Jenkins Road — completed
  • Lappa Road — completed
  • Mount Veteran Road — completed
  • Nymbool Road — completed
  • Wyndham Creek Road — completed

Mungalli

  • Brooks Road — completed

Peeramon

  • Peeramon Road — completed

Ravenshoe

  • Allen Road — completed
  • Bellview Road — completed
  • Carrick Road — completed
  • Dixon Hill Road — completed
  • Harris Road — completed
  • Major Street — completed
  • Monument Street — completed
  • Sunnyside Road — completed
  • 3 x unnamed roads — completed

Silver Valley

  • Broken Gully Road — completed
  • Coolgarra Road — completed
  • Mount Misery Road — completed
  • Rienecker Road — completed
  • Shady Creek Road — complete
  • Silver Valley Road — late April
  • Tobacco Road — complete
  • Top Nettle-Mount Misery Road — complete

Tarzali

  • Hitchconole Road — completed
  • Kenny Road — completed

Tolga

  • Access Road — late April
  • Campana Road — completed
  • Mapee Road — completed
  • Marnane Road — completed
  • Martin Street — completed
  • Sims Road — completed

Tumoulin

  • Condon Road — works removed from scope
  • Stancombe Road — completed

Upper Barron

  • Belson Road — completed
  • Hemmings Lane —completed
  • Mooma Road — mid April
  • Plath Road — completed
  • Soley Road — mid April

Walkamin

  • Morganbury Road — late April
  • O’Connell Road — late April

Wondecla

  • Bass Road — completed
  • Byers Road — completed
  • Coorey Road — completed
  • E Hill Road — completed
  • Elms Road West — completed
  • JA Dawson Road — completed
  • Wieland Road — completed

Wongabel

  • Carrington Falls Road — late April

Yungaburra

  • Jallard Road — mid April
  • Katherine Road — completed

Landslip on Danbulla Road

A landslip on Danbulla Road will be repaired. Environmental and geotechnical investigations are complete and the design is underway. Construction will take place in 2025–26.

Landslip on Russell Pocket Road

A landslip on Russell Pocket Road will be repaired. Environmental and geotechnical investigations are underway with construction in 2025–26.

Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements are for the restoration and betterment of roads damaged in the monsoon and flooding between 20 December 2022 and 30 April 2023. The betterment work includes rock protection, concrete toe walls, concrete causeways and new signs for various gully crossings on:

  • Coolgarra Road, Mount Garnet
  • Grant Street, Herberton
  • Mount Cardwell Road, Mount Garnet
  • Mount Misery Road, Silver Valley
  • Silver Valley Road, Silver Valley (four sections)
  • Wyndham Creek Road, Mount Garnet

The work was completed in July and concrete testing is taking place.

Assistance provided through the jointly-funded Commonwealth-State Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements.

Photos © Aro Industries.

Council will be undertaking essential road repairs along various sections of Ball Road, Peeramon. Works will be delivered in stages, with overall completion anticipated by June 2026, subject to weather conditions.

The first stage of works will occur from the quarry entrance towards Curtain Fig Tree Road (refer to map view below). Pavement renewal works in this section are anticipated to commence Monday 16 February (weather permitting).

Works are scheduled over 6 nights. Temporary road closures will be in place, with local access maintained where possible. Some sections will operate under single-lane traffic.

Update 20 February 2026 – Stage 1 of the project has been paused due to forecasted weather and will re commence Monday 23 February and is expected to be completed Wednesday 25 February 2026.

Where possible, please use the alternate route via Malanda–Peeramon Road.

Further updates on the pavement renewal activities for this section, as well as subsequent stages along Ball Road, will be provided as more information becomes available.

If your property is rented to tenants, we kindly request that you please pass this information on to your tenants.

We acknowledge that this may cause some inconvenience to your travel through the area, and we sincerely thank you for your patience and understanding as we work to enhance the region’s road network.