The weather gods have smiled down on Clarence Valley Council for a change, with ideal conditions greeting staff this month to lay several hundred metres of topsoil and turf on the Maclean levee.

Council outdoor team members completed the work on Friday September 2, before more than 70mm fell on the new turf over the following weekend.  “Perfect weather. Brilliant,” Manager Water Cycle Greg Mashiah said. “We could not have arranged it better.”

The new layers will help consolidate the emergency works carried out to strengthen the levee during the floods in March. The other strengthened section located 300m downstream will also have topsoil and turf laid.

It is also planned to remove the remaining sandbags on sections of the levee but leave the sand in place to raise the levee height.