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Residents of Cooreena Road are frustrated Dubbo City Council chose to resurface part of their road but elected to leave the rest as a dirt road.
The small but passionate group have been lobbying council to seal the remaining section of the 7.1 kilometre road, which comes off the Mitchell Highway past the airport and becomes a dirt road at the intersection of Bumblegumbie Road.
Council has told the group there is no funding in the 2014-15 budget to seal the road but they have vowed to continue the battle.
Dave Stevenson said he is concerned that the road could cause accidents because it is often in a state of disrepair. In June, he approached the council and then the Daily Liberal about concerns with the condition of the road.
He was hoping council would consider sealing it but said it required a grading at the very least because of large potholes that had developed.
At the time council said they had assessed the road and deemed it to be safe but Mr Stevenson said just two weeks later council graded the road.
Mr Stevenson said council recently dug up the existing tarred section of the Cooreena Road and laid new bitumen but once again stopped short of Bumblegumbie Road.
"I don't really know why they resealed the one end of the road and left the other as dirt. I didn't think there was anything wrong with the section that was already sealed. It would sometimes get potholes but they were patched," he said.
"It's the dirt section that is the biggest problem. Even when it has been graded it's only one good shower away from being potholed again. It was graded a couple of weeks ago but there are big stones and lose gravel that makes it really dangerous."
However council said the decision to resurface the tar was in line with policy.
"The work undertaken on the bitumen sealed section of Cooreena Road involved repairs to the gravel pavement as part of Council's Heavy Patching Program and cyclical resurfacing of the remainder of the road," DCC manager of civil infrastructure and solid waste, Steve Clayton said.
"Maintenance was required to the bitumen sealed road due to the gravel pavement failing in sections and resurfacing is required every 15 to 20 years.
"Bitumen sealed roads are expensive to construct and therefore maintenance is required when sections fail to ensure the sealed road continues to remain a useful investment for the community."
Mr Clayton reiterated there are no plans to seal the remainder of Cooreena Road.