Ninety four flood-affected councils across the state will see a immediate injection into their road repair budgets as their share of a $50 million pot for pothole repair arrives this week.

Across the western plains area only Narromine shire has missed out, figures ranged from almost $498,000 for Gilgandra to more than $1.2million for Walgett shire.

The funding is part of the Fixing Local Roads Pothole Repair Round that was announced by the state government in October.

“These grants are a rapid injection of cash to help councils get on with the job of repairing potholes to get us through the wet summer ahead," sad Minister for Regional Transport and Roads Sam Farraway when announcing the grants on Monday 28 November.

“This additional support will help councils to repair their most damaged roads, improving safety and reducing wear and tear on vehicles."

Some adjustment needed

In the initial figures released, Coonamble Shire Council's allocation amounted to just over $127,000 - an amount that Mayor Tim Horan said was "extremely disappointing".

• Bourke Shire: $843,048.45
• Cobar Shire: $769,560.72
• Bogan Shire: $549,784.34
• Brewarrina Shire: $544,073.59
• Lachlan Shire: $1,336,350.26
•  Warren Shire: 454,883.53
• Walgett Shire: $1,211,173.88
• Coonamble Shire: $127,745.02
• Warrumbungle Shire: $864,682.68
• Gilgandra Shire: $447,931.73
• Narromine Shire: TBC

Government sources said the amounts allocated per council were  "based on the size of the road network in each local government area" and reflected the kilometres of flood-damaged roads submitted by the councils.

"We need to find out where the discrepancy has occurred as it is clearly not an accurate reflection of the state of our local road network," Cr Horan said.

"We will be making inquiries and will hopefully get an answer that will give us a better result."

After speaking with Minister Farraway, Cr Horan said he was confident this issue could be resolved and that he expected Coonamble Shire to receive an allocation more in line with the estimated 1480 kilometres of road network that has been assessed at this stage as severely damaged.

Road rescue crews

The additional road repair funding comes hard on the heels of news on November 22 that a crew of government-funded contractors will be sent out west to help rebuild the roads.

The two-hundred people will be deployed to the Central West and Riverina regions, divided into teams to initially be based out of Cowra, Dubbo, Forbes, and Orange.

The focus will be on repairing flood damage on major highways before moving on to repairing local and regional roads.

No timeframes have been released for when the crews would be arriving in the hardest hit shires of the western plains such as Lachlan, Warren and Walgett shires.

This is to be expected considering the flooding is still moving through the region and there is ambiguity around how much repair work will be needed on some roads..

"Many roads are still inundated by flood waters making it difficult for crews to assess the damage for some time yet,” said Minister for Western NSW Dugald Saunders.

"The focus, for now, is to get moving on the pothole and pavement repairs and drainage maintenance until repair work can be completed.”

NSW Farmers Business, Economics and Trade Committee chair John Lowe says that the initiative is a step in the right direction, but the damage is so comprehensive that it might take a bit more than just two hundred workers and contractors.

“It’s great to see these extra workers will be deployed to the worst-affected areas, but there is simply so much damage out there that we could be looking at roadworks for many months to come,” Mr Lowe said.

“We need resilient communities and resilient roads, but to get there we may well need military engineering support to help get back on track.”

The teams of workers will be starting their trek out west at the end of November; and will be out here for an undisclosed time.