All four lanes of the New England Highway through Maitland have been reopened, however, Cessnock Road at Testers Hollow remained closed on Sunday.
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Photos from the Raise Testers Hollow Facebook page showed concrete bollards remained in place, but flood waters had dropped below the new roadworks.
The Testers Hollow crossing is just one of 12 roads which remained closed on Sunday morning from a peak of 63 across Maitland.
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The latest roads to reopen included Anne Street, East Maitland, Brisbane Fields Road, Morpeth, Duckenfield Road, Berry Park, all of Ken Tubman Drive, Maitland, New England Highway, all lanes and the overpass are open and Woodberry Road, Millers Forest between Alnwick Road and Nilands Lane.
Those road which remained closed at 9.27am on Sunday are:
- Allan Walsh Drive, Maitland
- Bungaree Street, Telarah
- Dickenson Road, Melville
- Gullivers Lane, Louth Park
- Junction Street, Telarah, closed from Simpson Lane to Mount Dee Road
- Louth Park Road, Louth Park closed from Reflection Drive to Trappaud Road
- Melville Ford Bridge
- Mount Dee Road at Junction Street, Telarah
- Pender Road, South Maitland
- Railway Parade, Telarah
- Testers Hollow, Gillieston Heights
- Trappaud Street, South Maitland
Roads in the Cessnock City local government area include (updated at noon on Thursday) are:
- Sawpit Road, Cedar Creek
- Tuckers Lane, Rothbury
- Old North Road, Rothbury
- Congewai Road, Congewai (at Burgess Bridge)
- Great North Road, Laguna, near Blaxlands Arm Road
- Yango Creek Road, Wollombi & Laguna
- Milsons Arm Road, closed at Great North Road
- Watagan Creek Road, closed at Great North Road
- Upper Yango Creek Road Laguna
- Congewai Road, Congewai (closed at Millfield Road)
- Wollombi Road, Wollombi, at Narone Creek Bridge
- Cessnock Road at Testers Hollow
- Broke Road, Pokolbin
- Cedar Creek Road, Cedar Creek
- Ekerts Road, Pokolbin
