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Roadworkers Can’t Be Happy… Water Problems

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.

Water #2
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.

This is looking from the opposite direction as the photo below, and you can see how full the area is with water.

All the water gushing in from the small creek that flows just along that line. You can sort of see how they’ve tried to block it on the right, but the water has just pushed through. Just to right of this is a whole lot of really soft mud, which I nearly lost my shoe in after my leg got sucked in to about my knee (or a bit below).

This is looking from the other side, and you can see more clearly how they’ve tried to dam up the creek.

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]

November 11, 2007 – 2:41 pm | Posted in Daily Life, Information for Locals, Photography | Also tagged adelaide park, road, woodbury | Comments (0)

Discovery of Huge Lilypilly Trees!

About 4 days ago my dad and I were riding around on the base of the new road that is going past our place. Because all the grass and small trees have been cleared to make way for the road, it is possible to see what was behind all of the grass. Anyway, we could see a small creek that was near the fence, so we went under the fence to investigate. I had explored some of this creek (nearer to our place), but I never made it up this far. The photos below tell what I found.

Lilypilly Tree #1
We found heaps of lilypilly trees in flower! In case you don’t know, lilypilly trees produce small, pinkish fruit that can range from being very sweet to quite sour. To find out what they look like, just search for lilypilly in Google Images.

These are some of the blossoms that later develop into fruit. When I was taking photos there were hundreds (thousands?) of bees collecting pollen.

Except for the tree on the far left, all the trees in this picture are lilypillys. You can use the fence post in the bottom right corner as a reference to how big they are.

I really should make a map showing all the lilypilly tree locations, because I know of quite a few .

[tags]nature, exploring, trees, fruit, lilypilly, woodbury, roadworks[/tags]

November 5, 2007 – 2:26 pm | Posted in Daily Life, Information for Locals, Photography, Woodbury, Bungundarra & Adelaide Park | Also tagged exploring, fruit, lilypilly, nature, trees, woodbury | Comments (0)

Latest Update on the Roadworks : 25 October

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.

Roadworks #1
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.

The bridge has been the most interesting thing to watch. This photo, taken on the 23rd, shows how they have been putting rocks and fabric down.

A closeup of the rocks that have been put down.

This is the interesting part. Today (Thursday) when I went down to see what they’d done I found that they had laid concrete all over the fabric that had been laid. See the zoomed-out shot below.

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

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

October 26, 2007 – 11:36 am | Posted in Daily Life, Information for Locals, Photography | Also tagged adelaide park, road, woodbury | Comments (0)

Latest Update on the Roadworks

OK, I am writing this on Monday night at 8:30pm.

Today has been quite an eventful one for the roadworks. I’ll let the photos below tell the story.

They have made a fair bit of progress on the stretch of road outside our place. For a start the level of the road has risen quite a lot and the edge (the bit that the two trees are on) has been cleared of all the logs, grass and bushes.

Further down the road the excavator has been busy at the bridge, especially at a section snug to the concrete. See the photo below.

This is the section that the excavator has been digging away at today. My dad pointed out that the foundation of the bridge appears to be an old causeway, complete with a pipe in the middle of it. Our neighbour helped to build this bridge, so I will ask him whether this is correct or not.

The orange excavator that can be seen in the distance (and also on my photoblog) dug all of this trench up to about where it is parked. At the end of this trench there is an access for trucks, and on the other side of that is another trench that is a bit wider than this one.

October 16, 2007 – 12:09 pm | Posted in Daily Life, Information for Locals, Photography, Woodbury, Bungundarra & Adelaide Park | Also tagged adelaide park, road, woodbury | Comments (0)

It’s All in the Dirt

After writing Friday’s update, I was especially interested in what the roadworkers were going to do with the big trench that they had dug. Yesterday (Monday) I got the chance to see. You can have that chance to by moving your eyes down a little to the photo section .

Roadworks #1
This photo is looking from the opposite end of the trench from the photo at the top of the last post. The trucks bring in the dirt and the excavator spreads it out (quite obviously).

This is a closeup of the two machines. In the background you can see the plastic that they layed before piling on the dirt.

This is just across the road from where the previous photos were taken. This drain was put in about 4 months ago and has just been sitting there. Now they’ve piled up dirt on one side in preparation for the road going over the top of it.

October 9, 2007 – 11:02 am | Posted in Daily Life, Information for Locals, Photography, Woodbury, Bungundarra & Adelaide Park | Also tagged adelaide park, road, woodbury | Comments (0)

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