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Not much roadworks happening at the moment but I though I’d better give you an update anyway. Also, just up the road from our place, on the corner near the big bridge, is a piece of land that was sold earlier this year, presumably because the person who lived there didn’t want to be near the new road that is going in.

The person who bought it has since made some major changes, including renovating the house, installing a pool, clearing a big section of land near his house and allowing his kids to make the area at the back of the house (which used to be a maze of creeks and lantana) into a maze of quad bike tracks.

Anyway, I now know that he also owns an earthmoving business and is storing all the machines on the block of land that he cleared. They all have the same phone number on them. Below are some photos.

Some of the machines that he is storing. There must be at least 20 of them, including about 5 trucks.

This is the main thing that the roadworkers have been working on: the future bridge just near our place (not to be confused with the big bridge located about 1km in front of this picture). They spent ages putting on the concrete sides (seen on the far left), and then the spent even more time covering it with dirt.

A view from the top of the structure.

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

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]