Jembaicumbene Bridge Replacements

Project typeCapital Works
Project value$4,636,500
Contractor nameHD Civil Pty Ltd

Road closures and detours

Araluen Road between Majors Creek Road and Monga Lane will be closed from 10 February 2025. Local residents will be able to access their properties.

Motorists should follow the detour route along Monga Lane and Majors Creek Road. Detours are anticipated to add approximately 3-8 minutes to overall travel time.

Additional directional signs for Araluen, Braidwood and Reidsdale localities are placed at key intersections to assist motorists.

Map of detour routes for Jembaicumbene Creek bridges and Bedding Ground Creek bridge

Project update

The project is progressing on schedule for completion in June 2025.

The three heritage bridges were removed in early March 2025. As part of the project, we were required to offer the bridge timbers to local community groups for community projects that would showcase the timber's heritage signficance.

The bridge timbers are progressively being delivered to:

Braidwood Men's Shed
Reidsdale Community Association
Araluen Progress Association
Araluen Recreational Reserve
Majors Creek Progress Association

Loading bridge timbers to be delivered to community groups

Construction of the new concrete bridges has begun, with piles for bridges 2 and 3 being hammered into place and concrete pours for their abutments. Piling and abutment works for bridge 1 will begin soon along with work on the approaches to bring them to the increased height and width of the new bridges. The bridge planks will arrive on site in early April.

Bridge 3 - concrete and reinforcement works for abutments

Piling rig and driver piles for bridge 2

Project background

We have received $4,636,500 as part of the NSW Government’s Fixing Country Bridges program to replace the series of three timber bridges within 130m of each other on Araluen Road.

The Jembaicumbene bridges are between 6.6m and 37.2m in length and will be replaced with concrete structures. This will reduce maintenance costs, improve resilience to natural disasters and fire, improve safety and usability by increasing bridge widths from single-lane to two lanes. The bridges were showing signs of failure and their replacement will provide reliable heavy vehicle passage.

The works include: