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I think that the water problems I talked about in the last post are fixed now. For a start, they brought in a huge pump from Coates hire, which is doing a very good job of keeping the water level down. More details are below.

The really powerful pump that they brought in to keep the water level down. Although you can’t see from this picture, it is almost as long as I am tall.

Here they are digging a trench around to re-route the water. Mum tells me that she was talking to the chief surveyor here and he said that they were looking for a water cable or something that they broke. Once they’d found what they had been looking for, the filled the trench in.

In this photo (taken yesterday as all these photos were) you can see the hole with almost all the water drained out of it. Now (13th November) all the water that was covering the concrete has gone.

These logs were used to bridge the creek so that the excavator could get across without making a huge mess of everything.

[tags]roadworks, adelaide park, woodbury, road[/tags]

OK, I figured that its about time for an update on the roadworks. I want to focus on the large section of ground that they dug away in October. They have since poured concrete all over the bottom, but water has been pouring in from one side and filling the hole up. Below are photos with explanation captions.

This is just a day or so after the concrete had been poured. As you can see, The only water in the area was on the left (and the right) of the concrete. The water from the right was coming in from drainage pipes that had been installed before this.

The slab of concrete near the bridge further down the road hasn’t been affected as much, because there is adequate drainage in the form of a pipe under the bride.

[tags]roadworks, adelaide park, woodbury, road[/tags]

There have been quite a few things going on over the last week or so with the roadworks. The photos below show the major things that have happened, but in addition they have been continuing on digging their trenches and then filling them in with pipes, rocks, a type of fabric and dirt (in that order). They have also been building up upon the section of the old road that starts from our corner. I estimate they have put about 40cm of dirt on top of the tar in some places.

But anyway, onto the photos.

They have dug away this large section in order to provide drainage for all the water still coming out. They have now extended it away to the left so that it connects up to the small creek that runs there. You could probably find a picture of the creek in previous posts.

A wider view of the concrete that has been laid down in preparation for the new bridge.

[tags]roadworks, adelaide park, woodbury, road[/tags]