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We’ve had Rain for 3 days Straight

As the tile implies, up here on the Capricorn Coast we’ve been getting rain for approximately 3 days straight. There were exceptions when we weren’t getting any rain for 1/2 an hour or so, but it was always overcast and misty.

Hardly any work has been done on the roadworks since before we went down the Gold Coast for our Christmas holidays, with the exception of some work on the new big bridge, which you will see a photo of. They have also broken up a section of the temporary road that was built, presumably to stop people hooning on it.

Below are some photos.

Lots of Rain #1
You can see how full of water this section near our place is. Because the water can’t go anywhere it is overflowing towards the top of the pic.

Lots of Rain #2
Just a macro of the overflowing water. The grass has been overpowered and subdued :)

Lots of Rain #3
This is what our dam looked like yesterday. Today (sunday) it has gone down noticabley because of the overflow that we dug a few years ago.

Lots of Rain #4
This is basically the only roadworks activity since Christmas, so far. They have gotten rid of the steep access path that was used to go down under the concrete, and piled up a lot of dirt in preparation for the road.

Lots of Rain #5
Two boys on quads were having a great time spinning their wheels and causing erosion on the tracks. In the picture above you can just see the two quads in the upper left corner.

[tags]roadworks, adelaide park, woodbury, rain, bridge, creek, water[/tags]

January 13, 2008 – 7:36 pm | Posted in Daily Life, Information for Locals | Also tagged , , , , , | Comments (1)

Big Machines and the Latest Roadworks News

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.

Roadworks #1
Some of the machines that he is storing. There must be at least 20 of them, including about 5 trucks.

Roadworks #2
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.

Roadworks #3
A view from the top of the structure.

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

December 23, 2007 – 12:24 pm | Posted in Daily Life, Information for Locals, Photography | Also tagged , , | Comments (0)

Tarring Roads

I haven’t posted anything on the roadworks for a while because they have only been spreading layer upon layer of crusher dust and gravel onto the new road. However, 2 or 3 days ago they tarred a section of the old road (When they started roadworks in my immediate area they created and tarred a temporary road so they could work on the old one) that had been raised and revamped.

Yesterday they blocked off that temporary road that had been built and re-opened the old one, which is now in use. Below are the photos.

Road #1
The old road on the afternoon of the tarring. The tar covering the gravel on the left was soft enough to get tar all over my shoe :) You can just see the temporary road on the far right.

Road #2
Straight ahead the metal guides are being used to block people from entering the temporary road. The old road going towards Yeppoon is to the left while the road on the right goes to Bungundarra.

Road #3
A split view showing the old road on the left and the temporary road on the right.

Road #3
Just in case you don’t believe that the temporary road had been closed off, I’m the one sitting with my bike parked beside me in the middle of it!

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

December 7, 2007 – 1:03 pm | Posted in Daily Life, Information for Locals | Also tagged , , | Comments (0)

Big Culverts, Little Culverts and the Latest on the Roadworks

Update: I have had a lot of people coming from http://forums.somethingawful.com/. Could someone coming from there tell the others on that thread that I don’t know anything about Sara. Also, if you could email me and explain exactly what is going on I’d be happy :) I can’t post on the forum because I don’t want to fork out $10 ;)

I haven’t done an update for a few weeks so this one is overdue and I have to cover a bit. The main things that have been going on are the placement of culverts on the two concrete pads – one near our place and one down at the bridge. Apart from that, the roadworkers have mainly been adding layers upon layers of dirt to the future roads. But anyway, onto the photos.

Culverts #1
These culverts, all 64 of them, were delivered about 1 week ago to the area about 10 metres to the right of this photo. Yesterday and today they have been putting them in, and this afternoon they finished. As you can see here, they put one row down, then leave a gap and repeat. Over the gaps they put concrete coverings.

Culverts #2
These culverts down at the main bridge are about twice the height and width of the smaller culverts. I think they still have to put the other side in. This will bring the total number of culverts at this location to 36. Although I saw the crane that brought them here, we were driving past so I wasn’t able to take a photo. I can tell you however, that the crane was absolutely monstrous because it had 3 (might be 6 if they are double wheels) heavy duty wheels on each side!

Culverts #3
On a lot of stretches of future road, both to the right and left (although not in front) of our place, they have progressed to the stage of laying crusher dust and gravel down. Gravel goes down first, and crusher dust goes on top. In this photo gravel is on the left.

Culverts #4
The only other thing of interest that happened about the time I wrote the last update was that they have demolished the tiny old pump house building. I’m not sure why although dad thinks it is because they need to move the power pole.

Culverts #5
This is what the pump house looked like. The roof had already been removed in this photo.

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

November 23, 2007 – 3:53 pm | Posted in Daily Life, Information for Locals, Photography | Also tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Water Problems have been Fixed

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.

Water Problems #4
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.

Water Problems #1
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.

Water Problems #2
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.

Water Problems #3
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]

November 14, 2007 – 1:51 pm | Posted in Daily Life, Information for Locals, Photography | Also tagged , , | Comments (0)