River Dargle Flood Defence Scheme.
These images were taken during the last full week of September, 2016.
Constant traffic nowadays with hard material being trucked in and dumped in storage areas along The Slang/Rehills section of the river bank.
By now we shouldn’t be surprised by anything, having seen so many changes and reversals to work previously carried out and completed during the past 4.5 years.
But we were baffled when they started to dump fresh loads of filtered soil in an area of the bank previously finished and properly landscaped.
On the top of the bank, directly opposite the La Vallee complex, the contractors proceeded to open up, and strip away, a renewed access ramp leading back towards the Riversdale complex.
‘Here We Go Again’!
Obviously this would require further investigation.
Sure enough, when we checked out the stretch opposite the Riversdale apartment complex, we saw them working on a section of the opposite bank.
Some 4 years ago this steep part of the bank had been stripped away and a lot of work invested in ‘soil stitching’, intended to stabilise the integrity of such a steep, but ‘exposed’ bank. The soil on the hill behind had been prone to slippage, aggravated by shallow rooting trees etc.
It would seem that yet another strip will have to be similarly treated to ‘preserve’ it’s integrity.
Yea, it begs the question:
Why wasn’t this fully scoped when the first work was being implemented, and/or was it a factor is causing (what I call) erosion-spread?
Check out the images here, taken in August 2012:
Posted by O Suave Gigante on 2016-09-30 16:46:47
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