Flinders Ranges Council

“When a 300mm+ rainfall event, more than our annual rainfall experienced across 3 days, damaged our entire 1,200km unsealed road network – Council quickly became aware that we would qualify for Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements.

The effort to produce documentation to support our claim would be as much an administrative hurdle as the actual road repair work would be.

SHEPHERD’s experience in documenting road damage by GPS location and photographic evidence, providing suitable remediation solutions with repair costs using approved unit rates quickly enabled Council to quantify and support its claim.

This enabled Council to begin negotiations for grant funding and activate repair work for the community as soon as practical after the disaster event.

SHEPHERD’s years of experience working through this process, which occurs more frequently in Queensland than it does in South Australia, was a tremendous advantage.”