Recently the Federal Government announced a $650 million recovery package for bushfire affected communities.
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Lithgow received $1.4 million earlier this year, which was used to clear dangerous trees in the Clarence, Dargan and Wolgan Valley areas.
Lithgow City councillors met on Monday night, May 11 to discuss the distribution of further funds when released.
"The government came out with a $650 million bushfire recovery package.
"What the criteria for that is or how much Lithgow is going to get out of it, we are not quite sure but we should know in the next couple of weeks," Lithgow mayor Cr Ray Thompson said.
He said Council had applied for some of the grant funding to finish off the removal of dangerous trees in fire affected areas.
"We got that first million very quickly off the bat back in January and we used most of that in phase one to remove dangerous trees from the Clarence, Dargan areas and some on the Zig Zag railway.
"We received a further $416,667 in February with $300,000 of that going on the Wolgan Gap Road to try and make sure we stabilise the winding road heading towards the Emirates," he said.
Cr Thompson said a total of $1.3 million had already been spent on dangerous tree removal and stabilising step terrain down the Wolgan Gap. He anticipated a further $130,000 was needed to complete the job.
"Phase two will be to finish tidying up all of that work, we've got quite a bit of terrain around the Lithgow area that needs stabilising and heavy rain hasn't helped that.
"There were a few homes that got minimal flooding because of the unstable terrain being washed down from the hills," he said.
Cr Thompson said he was pleased to see everything slowly coming together after the damage the fires caused.
"We [Council] are very happy.
"The amount of work that has been done around the Clarence, Dargan area has been absolutely outstanding," he said.
He also acknowledged the help from the Australian Defence Force and Indonesian corporals.
"If we didn't have them here to help out we wouldn't be as far forward as we are now.
"We were on top of it very quickly.
"Thank goodness we did and very lucky to have help from the ADF and Indonesian corps while they were here," he said.
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