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Speaker 1: My Heart Personal.

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Speaker 2: Hi, I'm Jackie Limb with iHeart Essay. This week we

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Speaker 2: head off shore to take a look at some of

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Speaker 2: our favorite local jetties. Images of crumbling jetties across Essay

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Speaker 2: have delivered a stark message in recent years, and that's

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Speaker 2: been rammed home again in just the last week, following

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Speaker 2: insane storms that saw several structures completely washed away from

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Speaker 2: Kingston to Tumby Bay, the once proud symbols of our

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Speaker 2: maritime history and now teetering on the edge literally. In fact,

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Speaker 2: last week's storms were a nail in the coffin for

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Speaker 2: the one hundred and fifty seven year old Normanville Jetty.

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Speaker 2: The historic structure was already damaged following storms in May.

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Speaker 2: Our journalist Jenny Lenman spoke to yanker Lilla Mayor Darryl

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Speaker 2: Houston about the iconic structure and what it means to

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Speaker 2: the community.

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Speaker 1: Much love jetty and unfortunately it's up the damage in

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Speaker 1: the May storm, so we had already closed the jetty,

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Speaker 1: but then last week the additional storm saw the last

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Speaker 1: four meters of the jetty basically fall into the ocean.

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Speaker 1: And unfortunately, over the years it's just got short for

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Speaker 1: its stat with storms, and yeah, it's a bit disappointing

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Speaker 1: to see in its current state.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so pretty much it was a nail in the coffin,

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Speaker 3: wasn't It was just really swept away.

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Speaker 1: Yes, yeah. The additional damage. Actually, in some ways the

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Speaker 1: storm last week was worse than the one we had

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Speaker 1: in May in that it just knocked the end of

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Speaker 1: the Jeddi give out and that's falling into the ocean.

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Speaker 3: What does that meant for people who love to go

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Speaker 3: fishing down there? Do you think people have moved on

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Speaker 3: to other places?

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Speaker 1: Look, there's other options for fishing. Our jetty unfortunately wasn't

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Speaker 1: particularly long, so it wasn't probably the greatest Jedi fishing

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Speaker 1: on but it was was great just for people to get.

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Speaker 3: Out, have a walk the way you use it there.

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Speaker 1: Exactly exactly I said, a lot of people love going

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Speaker 1: down there for a walk in the morning, going out

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Speaker 1: onto the jety, going for a quick swim in the ocean.

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Speaker 1: So it's a much loved area and it's much love jetty.

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Speaker 4: So what now?

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Speaker 1: Council or engaged engineers to come down and assess it.

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Speaker 1: They haven't done that yet, but hopefully they will be

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Speaker 1: doing that as soon as possible, and then we've got

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Speaker 1: to loads with the Department of Transports to see what

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Speaker 1: they will pay for, what we will pay for, and

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Speaker 1: hopefully we can repair it and get it back to

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Speaker 1: its previous state.

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Speaker 3: Right do you have a timeline on something like that.

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Speaker 1: We've engaged the engineer and we've already had a meeting

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Speaker 1: with Dick, so just as soon as the engineer can

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Speaker 1: get down. But I understand that obviously quite a few

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Speaker 1: jeties have been damaged around the state, so it would

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Speaker 1: be a fairly specialist job.

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Speaker 2: It's a familiar story over on the Air Peninsula too.

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Speaker 2: After weathering storms, funding shortfalls and years of patchwork maintenance,

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Speaker 2: the Tumbee Bay jetti's future is still unclear. The local

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Speaker 2: council says it can no longer afford the mounting repair

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Speaker 2: costs and has handed the responsibility back to the state government.

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Speaker 2: The small town's jetty now becoming the poster child for

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Speaker 2: South Australia's crumbling coastal infrastructure. Port Lincoln's Brett Prince spoke

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Speaker 2: to Member for Flinders Sam Telfer about the never ending

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Speaker 2: fight to save it.

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Speaker 5: I mean, look, this is a pretty complex situation and

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Speaker 5: you know those of us who have been fighting for

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Speaker 5: the long term future of Tumbe Bay Jetty. It's another

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Speaker 5: step along the way. I've been one which obviously have

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Speaker 5: been pretty prominent launching a petition for the state government

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Speaker 5: to put significant funding into the jetty, presenting that Parliament

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Speaker 5: and speaking often about the need for this long term investment.

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Speaker 5: The council deciding that in reflection of their rate payers

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Speaker 5: wishes through a pretty comprehensive survey, must I say that

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Speaker 5: they weren't going to put the significant amount of money

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Speaker 5: that the state government is demanding that they do to

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Speaker 5: match what the state is proposing. Is a big step.

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Speaker 5: So around the state, we've got near on seventy jetties,

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Speaker 5: and around half of them are least two local councils

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Speaker 5: under lease arrangements, which many of which will expire in

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Speaker 5: coming years. And I was only talking to a colleague

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Speaker 5: got a dozen jetties over there that will be exporing

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Speaker 5: their lease as soon as well. So look, this is

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Speaker 5: obviously a signal to the state government that's small regional councils,

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Speaker 5: you can't afford millions of dollars to be able to

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Speaker 5: invest into infrastructure which are in the end state government

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Speaker 5: assets and what comes next is going to be really important.

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Speaker 5: It's a big step, big decision from the Tummy Bay Council.

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Speaker 5: And you know, there wouldn't be many people who would

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Speaker 6: No, but at least it wasn't made on their own.

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Speaker 6: It was made with community feedback as well from those

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Speaker 6: two surveys.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, absolutely, and that I think that's what they can

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Speaker 5: rely on. So look, the state government is really what

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Speaker 5: I've been calling on them to do, and you know,

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Speaker 5: even from my time in local government, is to actually

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Speaker 5: know that the state of each asset, makes strategic decisions

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Speaker 5: around the state as to funding and then follow it

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Speaker 5: through in the long term. So it's going to be challenge,

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Speaker 5: but our local community needs to know that I'm standing

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Speaker 5: up and saying that the long term future of these

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Speaker 5: jeties need to be secure and we can't afford to

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Speaker 5: lose any of them.

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Speaker 6: No, exactly right. And I was having a chat with

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Speaker 6: the Mayor Tummy Bay, Jeff church At and he would

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Speaker 6: saying that that council is still going to be, you know,

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Speaker 6: fighting the good fight to get the jetties brought up

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Speaker 6: to scratch, but only doing it when they return back

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Speaker 6: to the state government.

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Speaker 5: And so we'll seem significant investment put into the Streaky

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Speaker 5: Bay jety just in the last twelve months with the

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Speaker 5: state government and there's been that important investment which I

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Speaker 5: welcomed and congratulated them on. And with some nineteen jetties

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Speaker 5: This is a significant issue for our communities and one

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Speaker 5: which I'll be continuing to fight on and make sure

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Speaker 5: that our voices are heard.

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Speaker 2: We'll have more coming up after the break.

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Speaker 5: I had.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back today, we're turning our attention to an issue

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Speaker 2: that's both local and deeply personal for many South auses

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Speaker 2: our jetties. These wooden and steel giants have stood at

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Speaker 2: the edge of our towns for generations, linking land to sea,

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Speaker 2: but now many of them are on the brink. Our

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Speaker 2: reporter for the Spencer Golf spoke to the Director of

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Speaker 2: Infrastructure at Porto Gusta Council, Stan rob to find out

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Speaker 2: options for the West Side jetty and the foreshore wharf.

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Speaker 7: It was built back in the late eighteen hundreds, and

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Speaker 7: it's the last remaining jetty of eleven that actually once

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Speaker 7: served Porto Gaster's commercial hub, so it's a very important

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Speaker 7: historical link back into that time for Porto Gasta and

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Speaker 7: as president.

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Speaker 4: Since its closure, has there been any ongoing maintenance or

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Speaker 4: assessment work done at all?

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Speaker 7: There has been several reports done for council in relation

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Speaker 7: to its structural integrity and those who have supported the

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Speaker 7: earlier twenty nineteen report things that we are using to

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Speaker 7: then talk with the state and federal governments around its

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Speaker 7: restorational possible restoration in the future.

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Speaker 4: So what options are there for the future of the

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Speaker 4: jetty then, Well.

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Speaker 7: Council did consult with the local community very recently on

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Speaker 7: what the community would like to see from the point

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Speaker 7: of view of the jetty moving forward. Overwhelming the community

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Speaker 7: acknowledged that the IgG would like to retain the jetty

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Speaker 7: in some form. There were certainly some different feedback in

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Speaker 7: relation to how that would occur, but overall they would

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Speaker 7: like to see the integrity and the visuality of the

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Speaker 7: jetty retained.

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Speaker 4: What happens next, then, when can we kind of expect

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Speaker 4: a bit of an update.

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Speaker 7: Well, we are currently going back to Council with the

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Speaker 7: formal presentation of the work done by our consultants in

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Speaker 7: relation to that consultation next week and constable and forwards.

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Speaker 7: The intention is that we will now look at the

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Speaker 7: options in relation through what can be done physically with

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Speaker 7: the jetty as far as the design and costing associated

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Speaker 7: with that, and once we understand those sort of things,

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Speaker 7: we will come back to count so with that information

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Speaker 7: and then Council makes further decisions on where to go

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Speaker 7: in relation to possible funding opportunities, both at a state

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Speaker 4: Well, moving on now to the wharf upgrade, which I

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Speaker 4: know is also happening in the region. So that was

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Speaker 4: announced back in March. Do you have any updates on

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Speaker 4: its progress so far?

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Speaker 7: The state government through the Marine area of Department of

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Speaker 7: Transport is moving forward with a number of options in

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Speaker 7: relation to how to restore that particular wharf. We did

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Speaker 7: have a presentation from that team on Tuesday night and

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Speaker 7: that will be presented to count them more formally later on,

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Speaker 7: but it is indicating that form with the jetty, in

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Speaker 7: other words, it's look and fear will be retained. There

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Speaker 7: are some changes that will be required in the surface

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Speaker 7: maintain the railway integration with the wharf, or at least

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Speaker 7: pay homage to that.

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Speaker 4: So how important is this redevelopment in terms of driving

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Speaker 4: local tourism back to Portagusta.

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Speaker 7: Oh, we think it's integral and very important into how

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Speaker 7: Portoguster feels about itself and how people feel about Porto

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Speaker 7: Gusta who are coming to visit us. It is an

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Speaker 7: iconic piece of infrastructure on our foreshore and certainly one

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Speaker 7: that council has bought hard to have retained.

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Speaker 2: Through the Jetties Renewal program, the state government has put

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Speaker 2: forward funding to support jetties deemed the most at risk.

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Speaker 2: Money has been allocated to the York Peninsula to the

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Speaker 2: tune of three point seven million dollars. Tumbee Bay was

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Speaker 2: promised two point four million, and Alexandrina Council scored just

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Speaker 2: one hundred and seventy four thousand. Many councils say the

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Speaker 2: money is just a drop in the ocean compared to

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Speaker 2: the total cost of keeping our jetties open in the

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Speaker 2: long term. I spoke to the technical director at mcgrin

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Speaker 2: engineering Will Suitor about what's involved in keeping them standing,

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Speaker 2: and he also gave some insight into Kingston and Normanville's

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Speaker 2: next steps the.

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Speaker 8: Ones that have suffered major damage or been destroyed. It's

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Speaker 8: basically a similar process to any sort of storm damage.

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Speaker 8: It happens in that either council or Department of Transport

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Speaker 8: or a combination of them would arrange a consultant to

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Speaker 8: come out and make an assessment of the damage and

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Speaker 8: determine whether it can be repaired or whether it is

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Speaker 8: basically right off. We look at the various components. So

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Speaker 8: there's a fairly structured guideline or a manual called the

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Speaker 8: Wharf Structures Conditioned Assessment Manual that gives a standardized sort

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Speaker 8: of approach for how to assess jetties and how to

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Speaker 8: categorize them between being basically new to being at the

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Speaker 8: end of their life and being completely damaged. So we

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Speaker 8: would work through that and we would look at each

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Speaker 8: element of the jetty from the piles to the cross beams,

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Speaker 8: to the connections to the decking and that sort of thing,

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Speaker 8: and basically rate each element and assign it a damage

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Speaker 8: category as well as a risk and a maintenance category. Basically,

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Speaker 8: if it's a higher risk component that is holding up

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Speaker 8: the jetty, or in the case of Kingston jetty, it's

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Speaker 8: been washed away basically, or parts of the jetty are

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Speaker 8: gone and the piles have been knocked over. Then yeah,

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Speaker 8: it's a pretty clear cut answer and it requires replacement.

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Speaker 2: What sort of things are holding up the refurbishment of

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Speaker 2: the Port Jermaine jetty. I know that's one of the

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Speaker 2: longest in the Southern Hemisphere and everyone was quite proud

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Speaker 2: of that, but it's had a portion of it closed

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Speaker 2: only a small amount of it, should that not be

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Speaker 8: Yeah, Look, I can't comment too much on what's holding

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Speaker 8: a matter of how far do you go and how

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Speaker 8: much money do you put into repairing a jetty when

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Speaker 8: it gets to the point that it's the terms we

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Speaker 8: of a long term sustain option where you're trying to

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Speaker 8: do more of a major replacement. Yeah, it's not an

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Speaker 8: easy situation, I suppose, in that feeling in the marine

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Speaker 8: environment and getting construction equipment like barges out to site

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Speaker 8: and doing things that pile driving and major repairs is very,

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Speaker 8: very costly, and I think that's part of the biggest

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Speaker 2: Therefore, you know, if he does come to having to

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Speaker 2: be torn down, where would maybe heritage listing get involved

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Speaker 2: in those sorts of things.

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Speaker 8: It varies between the jetties as to some of them

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Speaker 8: are heritage listed and some of them aren't. And that's

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Speaker 8: definitely an important factor and a consideration that would come

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Speaker 8: into play whether it's a repair or replacement. That certainly,

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Speaker 8: if it's repair, it's generally done in a way that

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Speaker 8: maintains the heritage character and the aesthetic of the jetty.

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Speaker 8: And sometimes the standard repair for the piles is to

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Speaker 8: put in a steel pile that doesn't detract too much

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Speaker 8: from the visual appeal, But that would definitely have to

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Speaker 1: Well.

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Speaker 2: Obviously, somewhere like Wayalla didn't have a heritage listing on

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Speaker 2: their old jetty because they're new one. The big Ring

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Speaker 2: jetty very popular now, but obviously very new design. So

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Speaker 2: would you see maybe in the future more towns getting

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Speaker 2: involved on these kind of unique options and design elements.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, exactly. I think it presents a really good opportunity

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Speaker 8: for councils and communities to go with a more novel

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Speaker 8: draw card to the town. And because yeah, chetties are

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Speaker 8: very important for communities and for tourism. They provide a

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Speaker 8: these are sorts of things that need to be worked

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Speaker 2: And without these structures in communities, what do you see

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Speaker 2: people doing in the future, you know, not having these

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Speaker 2: opportunities for recreation or ports, et cetera. What would be

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Speaker 2: the alternative?

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Speaker 8: Look, that's a good question. I think people are always

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Speaker 8: going to be drawn to the ocean and they're going

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Speaker 8: to going to make the most of our beautiful beaches

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Speaker 8: regardless of whether there's jetties. But I think they will

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Speaker 8: always be jetties. I think that there is enough support

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Speaker 8: that there'll be new jetties that get constructed, whether it's

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Speaker 8: the same number of jetties that we've currently got, because

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Speaker 8: we do currently have a lot of jetties across the States,

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Speaker 8: and it's becoming more and more important as the decades

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Speaker 8: go by, and as time goes by with things like

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Speaker 8: sea level eyes, and we're going to see more frequent

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Speaker 8: storms and surges like this. So would really encourage counsels

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Speaker 8: and asset owners to really be proactive and get ahead

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Speaker 8: of the game and start acting.

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