Nericon farmers are frustrated by the decision to carry out work on two neighbouring bridges simultaneously, which they say limited access to farms and endangered the community.
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Bridges on Fraser Road and New Farms Road have been impacted under the final stages of Murrumbidgee Irrigation's (MI) Lake View Branch Canal expansion project, which the organisation said will provide irrigators with a more responsive system.
The works have been carried out in two stages, with the first undertaken in winter 2019.
The project is expected to be fully completed by Wednesday, MI said, after being pushed out by a week due to the recent rainfall.
While pleased the two bridges were being completed, a group of Nericon growers say tackling both of them at the same time has wreaked havoc by forcing all traffic along narrow, dry-weather Lake View Branch Road.
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"We're happy that they're doing the bridges, but we're not happy that they're doing [them] at the same time," Nericon farmer Bruno Altin said.
"It creates access problems, short trips from one farm to another have turned into 10-kilometre trips.
"They've forced all the traffic through [Lake View Branch Road], which is dangerous.
"We feel like we're being walked over and that we're not being properly consulted.
"Why didn't they do one bridge last year and one bridge this year? Everyone would have been happy."
Albert Scarfone echoed Mr Altin's safety concerns, citing a recent near-miss with a truck.
"I was coming in my semi, a semi came the other way and we both had to swerve," Mr Scarfone said.
"Safety is an issue and it's only a matter of time until someone gets hurt."
Fraser Road's bridge reopened on Friday to reduce inconvenience to customers, MI said in a press release issued in response to questions from The Area News.
MI general manager of asset delivery, Jody Rudd, acknowledged concerns over traffic disruptions over the course of the works and thanked the community for their patience.
"A key focus has been to ensure the safety of the community, with traffic control plans in place," he said.
"Of course, we are aware that the recent rain has added to the inconvenience of local residents having further to travel on muddy roads."
"We have done our best to be proactive in keeping customers informed through SMS messages, weekly email updates and keeping our website up to date with all the works across the region."
The recent rain only made the situation worse, according to Mr Altin.
"The other day we had an inch of rain and the road was underwater in some parts," he said.
"If you need an ambulance or something like that, who's to know if they could get to where they had to go."
Mr Rudd said the project was planned to run over two winters in order to reduce inconvenience to customers.
"This year's program of works was also broken into three stages to ensure limited impact on customer access to water during the construction phase," Mr Rudd said.
"The stages were developed based on where we could isolate supply and to minimise the number of customers impacted at each stage and keep the outages to the shortest possible timeframes."