WORK is powering ahead on the $342 million new Nowra bridge project.
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Construction work is certainly underway on both the north and south sides of the river.
The giant rock pad on the southern side of the river, which has affectionately been labeled "Fulton Hogan Island" by some locals is taking shape
The pad will be used to allow the pile driving machine to venture into the river to place the pylon footings into the river bed.
Thousands of tonnes of fill has already been put in place at the location, which once completed will stretch more than halfway across the river.
On one day alone last week more than 2000 tonnes of rocks were dumped and spread at the site.
That equated to 65 truck and dog loads of rocks, which are coming from a quarry at Albion Park.
That rock platform will be removed once the pile driving work has been completed and the bridge pylons constructed.
The piles will be driven into the ground until they hit bedrock.
There is lots of work also in and around Bridge Road and the highway.
The Nowra sign, complete with black cockatoo, indicating the entrance to the town has been removed as have a number of trees on the site and on the western side of the princes Highway near the Shoalhaven City Council administrative building.
This area will be utilitised as part of the road redesign for the new flour-lane northbound bridge.
Median strips on the highway between Moss Street and the current bridges have been removed as have some near the Bomaderry Creek bridge.
On the northern side at North Nowra around a dozen homes in Illaroo Roads have now been demolished and removed to allow for a permanent left-hand turn lane onto the highway as part of the associated intersection upgrades with the bridge project.
Two large gum trees near where the new bridge will start its journey south have also been removed.