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27 September 2023
Congratulations class of 23!
NOOSA District State High School graduating class of 2023 celebrated their final year with their school formal on 14 September. The students, dressed to the nines and looking fine, met at the Noosa Botanic Gardens for photos before heading to the Sunshine Beach Surf Club. See photo gallery on page 21.
PHOTO: Marina Locke Photography.
Black Mountain residents ‘frustrated and concerned’ BY ALEX PURCELL A GROUP of Black Mountain residents from the western side of the landslide have voiced their frustrations. Eighteen months after the natural disaster isolated them from Cooroy, residents on the "wrong side of the slip" say they are exhausted – and they still have another two years to go. The Cooroy Rag met with a dozen residents at the landslip on Black Mountain
Road recently to hear their concerns. Black Mountain resident Alex McConnell said the major issues facing the affected community are communication, fire, waste and buses. “We have been asking Noosa Council for 12 months for a detailed project plan. We weren’t asking for a miracle, just a timeline, but all we’ve ever received are vague dates.” Infrastructure Services acting director Shaun Walsh said the landslide is the
largest on the Sunshine Coast in over 30 years and while there has been plenty of work happening behind the scenes to get construction started and connectivity restored, the full construction methodology and timeframes are still being finalised. “Every opportunity to accelerate the construction process will be explored, and reopening the road sooner continues to be a consideration. “Lead contractor Hazell
Bros has had an initial onsite meeting with residents immediately impacted by the proposed works. “Further contact will be made with the local community once further information about construction timing, noise, safety, and traffic management is known.” But Mr McConnell said the community now knows those dates after finding a copy of the project plan in the grass. “I found it, quite literally, in the grass at the slip.”
The documents, sighted by the Cooroy Rag, detail the start dates and duration of each stage of the reconstruction. Initial works are scheduled to start in October and will include signage, fencing, clearing of debris and vegetation, and site establishment work. Mr McConnell said a large number of residents rely on finding an alternative route around the slip to make their lives function, and are worried when construction starts
they will have only one exit. “We are facing two fire seasons before the slip is fixed and we will only have one exit. It is a death trap. “We have petitioned for traffic-controlled use of the access road they will build across the slip but we have been told no.” Mr Walsh said the safety of the community, residents, motorists, and construction workers is always the top priority. Continued on page 3
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