When the Burrupa Road bridge over Kennedy's Creek became too unstable for heavy traffic it left a local dairy farmer unable to get tankers in to pick up his daily milk output.

So Warrnambool Cheese and Butter Factory staff and Corangamite Shire Council crews devised a solution.

Stainless steel pipes were attached to the side of the bridge and linked to the dairy shed milk vat and a turning area was built at the end of the bridge for tankers to pull in and receive the milk.

The shire's acting director for works and services John Kelly said a load limit was placed on the bridge after the timber abutments at the bridge ends were found to have deteriorated badly.

"Tankers are able to come in from the Lavers Hill-Cobden Road end and use a turning area our teams prepared," he said.

"However, the road on the other side of the bridge leading to the Great Ocean Road has a lot of damage with slippages and fallen trees.

"There's a pretty extensive list of our roads that need work done to them."

The shire is confident its application for $3 million under the state government's natural disaster relief fund will be successful.