People driving on Horsham Rural City Council's rural roads are asked to take extra care in the coming weeks with rain over last weekend, and continued rain this week making conditions challenging.
The unsealed road network is completely saturated, and until conditions improve, HRCC road crews have been diverted from planned renewal work to attend to growing list of urgent repairs.
"Unfortunately, the ongoing wet weather has deteriorated the road surface to a point where some sections are becoming difficult for drivers to navigate at the current speed," Mayor Robyn Gulline said.
"While gravel resheeting work is being limited by the weather, our teams are not sitting idle. They are out unblocking culverts, filling large holes and genuinely trying to maintain rural roads to make sure farming families can get in and out their properties.
"I know our community is frustrated by the state of the roads, but there is no quick fix. All Council can do is continue to painstakingly triage all required repairs that are reported and continue to fix these – which is a mammoth task.
"When people see our teams out there filling the potholes in the rain as fast as they can and complain that this is a quick fix – we agree – it is a quick fix but it's all we can do at the moment.
People can report road damage via on Council's website.
