Council spent “several tens of thousands of dollars” fixing a roundabout near the Woolworths development at Delroy Park but said it would be claiming back the costs from those responsible for damage.
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Council completed the final stages of the job on Tuesday after it laid a temporary surface at the Minore Street roundabout last month when the damage occurred.
The building contractors completed drilling work beneath the thoroughfare to provide cabling for the new supermarket in early June when “things went a little bit wrong”.
A three-by-three-metre area of asphalt covering protruded 30 centimetres from the surrounding roadway before it eventually sunk into a “soft, soupy state”, council’s works services manager Ian Bailey said.
Council dealt with the issue immediately conducting initial repair works but had to wait until its asphalt contractor, which provided the “icing on the cake”, was free to complete the works.
Mr Bailey said “it would have been nice if it didn’t happen” but the repair work went “reasonably smoothly”.
“This week we did the final asphalting work,” he said.
“We had to close part of the roundabout which would have slowed people down but basically it went according to plan and got completed on the day we planned.”
Mr Bailey said the repair works were worth “several tens of thousands of dollars” but “we’ll be discussing it with the developers”.
