THE Mornington Peninsula Shire council has welcomed a $2.19m Disaster Ready Fund grant from the federal government to contribute to remediation and protection works for the Mount Martha landslip. Council is also contributing $2.19m to this project. The project will reinstate a local access road after it collapsed and slid onto The Esplanade beneath it on 29 September 2020 (Landslip closes Esplanade, The News 5/10/2020).At the time, the collapse was blamed on stormwater run off and saw an estimated 30 tonnes of material and vegetation dislodge on the slope above the Esplanade, between Ellerina Road and Bradford Road. Works to…
Tuesday, September 17
