SMEC engineers arrive in Oro
Mon Apr 20, 2009 12:00pm
A team of Geotech Engineers from the Snowy Mountain Engineers
Corporation or SMEC in Australia, is in the province inspecting four
bridges destroyed during the 2007 Cyclone Guba.
The four bridges are the Double Cross, Erovo, Girua and Kumusi.
Surveyors from Arman Larma would also be surveying the four bridges.
The bridges have not been repaired and people are still using the wet
crossing, which are continuously being destroyed by flood.
Recently, the people of Kokoda held a protest march, threatening to
shutdown the Kokoda Highway, which would have affected major business
houses in the area - like the Higaturu Oil Palm project.
The Highway is also important, as it connects the infamous world war
two trail - the Kokoda Track.
Thousands of tourist, especially, Australians visit the track every
year. |
