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Speaker 1: We know that one of the popular spots in Nightcliff,

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Speaker 1: it has been temporarily closed due to safety fears. Joining

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Speaker 1: us on the line to tell us why is the

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Speaker 1: Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Logistics, General Manager of Transport

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Speaker 1: and Civil Services Louise McCormack. Good morning to Louise.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Katie.

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Speaker 1: How are you very well? Thank you, thanks for your

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Speaker 1: time this morning. Are Louise? Why is the Nightcliff Jetty

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Speaker 1: temporarily closed?

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Speaker 2: So we've had our routine inspection carried out on the

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Speaker 2: jetty with the low tides that we've had recently, and

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Speaker 2: when we had those low tides that actually uncovered that

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Speaker 2: there's some of the key structural members have got heavy

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Speaker 2: amounts of corrosion and rust on them and were received

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Speaker 2: the report just yesterday. For safety reasons, we thought we'd

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Speaker 2: close just to make sure everyone is safe. But we

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Speaker 2: will have structural engineers out there to go and do

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Speaker 2: a bit more detailed inspection and work out a repair

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Speaker 2: for it as well.

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Speaker 1: Louise, how long do you anticipate that it's going to

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Speaker 1: be closed?

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Speaker 2: Potentially about a month, but the works will be contingent

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Speaker 2: on the tides because they are below water level, so

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Speaker 2: we'll be working with the tides, but hopefully about a

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Speaker 2: month and we'll have it back open again.

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Speaker 1: And so is it an extensive work that needs to

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Speaker 1: be done or is it something that you anticipate, you know,

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Speaker 1: is going to be the type of work that we've

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Speaker 1: got to do for years to come.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. It's a lightweight structure in a really aggressive environment.

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Speaker 2: So the salt water that the sea brings up there

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Speaker 2: actually exacerbates corrosion and rust on the structure. So that's

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Speaker 2: why we undertake the routine inspection of the jetty, particularly

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Speaker 2: after the wet season, to make sure everything's safe. So

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Speaker 2: it is something we continually do on marine structures, and

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Speaker 2: particularly Nightcliff jetty, because it isn't a fairly exposed location there,

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Speaker 2: so it's.

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Speaker 1: Not sort of an unusual thing to have happen.

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Speaker 2: No, not for that type of environment. It definitely isn't.

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Speaker 2: You may remember a few years ago with the cyclone

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Speaker 2: where the piles were knocked out from underneath their footings.

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Speaker 2: That's pretty unusual for that sort of jetty, But rust

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Speaker 2: and corrosion on a steel structure in a sea environment's

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Speaker 2: pretty common, and that's why we do our routine maintenance

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Speaker 2: and inspections, but it's just the corrosion is just that

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Speaker 2: much more than it has been previously, that it's not

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Speaker 2: safe to walk across at this point in time.

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Speaker 1: And Louise, like you said, those inspectors will be heading

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Speaker 1: out there pretty much immediately. Is that today that that's happening.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So the people that did the inspection, they're currently

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Speaker 2: getting a structural engineer on board. We haven't locked in

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Speaker 2: a time yet, but we're moving as quickly as we can.

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Speaker 2: We've just put that order out this morning, so hopefully

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Speaker 2: as soon as we can.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. And then once that work has or once that

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Speaker 1: inspection has happened, do you anticipate that the work that

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Speaker 1: needs to be done will happen fairly well immediately. Yes.

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Speaker 2: We've actually issued an urgent repair request to our contractors,

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Speaker 2: so as soon as we've got a repair method, it

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Speaker 2: will be done almost immediately.

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Speaker 1: Well. Our Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Logistics, General Manager

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Speaker 1: of Transport and Civil Services, Louise McCormack. Always appreciate your time.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for having a chat with us today.

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Speaker 2: Thank you having me.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Louise,