Friday, December 29, 2017

December 2017--paving, bridge and fencing

 NOVEMBER

 We had been given 4000 paving bricks, 
 BCA kindly paid for them to be delivered 
and for the sand.


Shepherd and Wilson began laying
 the bricks




Doesn't the paving look nice?

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At Bottom dam someone enjoyed ripping the bench
out the cement and throwing it down the bank



Wilson and Shepherd re-seated it in lots of cement!

  
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At top dam


 The indigenous blue flowering plants got washed 
up onto the weir and blocked the water



The workers cleared it in a morning

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 Project new bridge....


Wilson had seen this big pipe in the veld
near the Environmental Centre


It took muscle power to get it up the hill


The two small pipes came out --
 rubbish was getting stuck in them


The big one was lowered in...



... and cement walling was put on top



Heavy stones were placed  at the sides, so no 
big vehicles can get through and damage the bridge


Heave Ho  -- Shepherd!


The bridge has worked well despite the last two storms

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At the small parking opposite the playground...

City Parks had given us the poles to do corral fencing ....
but we had to cut them and drill the holes.
 Peter Hammond supervised this.


Shepherd getting the single poles out and digging new holes


That looks so much neater and 
no one can drive into the park now!
  
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 Finally -- 
the Agapanthus at the entrance to Rd No 3 are stunning



 AND THAT ENDS OFF 2017

Saturday, July 29, 2017

August 2017 Paving,and maintainance




AUGUST  2017



Below the Environmental Centre




We 'caged' in the new flower bed  that used to be
 the pond, as the plants were being trodden on


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MORE PAVING STARTED

 

 At the top parking---
We hired a truck and loaded the excess paving bricks




 And took them down to the
 Environmental Centre parking area





Shepherd and Wilson breaking ground




And the paving began....

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 AT THE TOP PARKING AREA..





The concrete edge was being broken by cars
spinning their wheels on it, so we have repaired it
with tar to see it that is better.

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THE GARDEN AT THE  CRAIGHALL ENTRANCE



With the water restrictions being partially lifted,
City Parks has filled the pond and  it is
circulating into the water feature.

– the paving is finished – for now...




 The ancient rocks in the park behind the playground

THAT'S ALL FOLKS!

Friday, May 19, 2017

May 2017

May 2017

 Work in the Park and photos of the Delta's early days 

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Road No 3


The aloe bed is settling down and a
 few have already flowered




The agapanthus put on a good show of blue and white


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At top parking the old rusty fence was removed



And a nice new wooden one went up



The other side of the 'road' was also done


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Cosmos, cosmos


And more beautiful cosmos

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Hyacinth coming out the Florence Bloom dam


Just to prove I work as well

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The wooden bridge behind the playground 
collapsed after a storm washed away
 the supporting wall






Peter Hammond, Shepherd, Kenneth 
and Arkim raising the bridge




 The 4 meter supporting poles are is and braced



All finished - secure and safe again




Kenneth  and  Arkim
So sad that a week later  Arkim had died!


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The opening of the Delta Sewage works  1934







Road No 3 that went to the big white building--
very few trees just rolling grasslands.






1974 - The renovation of the building began -
for the future Environmental Centre.


 THAT'S ALL FOLKS

Sunday, February 12, 2017

2017 February -- paving




December  2016


The Standard drive/ Pitcairn Rd parking 
was eroded, rocky and the underneath of cars
was being scraped.





Blairgowrie Primary School offered me
a huge amount of interlocking paving bricks
A very kind contractor offered to donate
half of the costs and to organise the
laying of the paving .
The sub contractor came in and work began.

Donations came in from BCA, CRA and all the users of the park

 
Definitely-
one man's rubbish is another man's treasure
The bricks were loaded




 and brought across the road to the parking
area - what a huge pile!





The team started digging and levelling the ground





The paving bricks went down so quickly




 and before Christmas it was done .
What a wonderful way to end the year!
 Thank you to everyone involved

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January 2017


John Barrow offered me the use of a TLB to clear and
level the other part of the parking area.


The TLB arrived


In a few hours it was all done.



Top Dam


This huge poplar tree split down the centre and damaged  a
few walls and electric fences of  houses on the park's perimeter
City Park  cleared those branches and
Parkrun cut a path through the branches.

 We still have to have the tree cut up and removed-- another big job


 That's all folks --
 Shirley