River Dargle Flood Scheme, Bray, Co. Wicklow: P1170409_c
River Dargle Flood Defence Scheme.
These images were taken in the third full week of November 2014. There's a big drop-off in activity on this site now. Continued removal of equipment, back to base or other construction sites. The last 'crawler crane' is being stripped down. Scrap metal is gathered and trucked out. Remedial work is carried out on the southern slope, removing traces of the access ramps, placing lines of boulders and reinforcing those parts of sloping banks with boulder buttressing. On this side, work continues on completing the profiles to the wall, securing with poured concrete, and then the completion with the pre-fabricated stone capping. This is very much intricate manual work -- machines can only do so much! The next step involves swinging in Precast Retaining Structure, Standard Capping Units (1.4T - supplied by Banagher Precast Concrete). Accuracy satisfied, the welder melds them together. A race against time, schedules - and the winter rains
River Dargle Flood Scheme, Bray, Co. Wicklow: P1170409_c
River Dargle Flood Defence Scheme.
These images were taken in the third full week of November 2014. There's a big drop-off in activity on this site now. Continued removal of equipment, back to base or other construction sites. The last 'crawler crane' is being stripped down. Scrap metal is gathered and trucked out. Remedial work is carried out on the southern slope, removing traces of the access ramps, placing lines of boulders and reinforcing those parts of sloping banks with boulder buttressing. On this side, work continues on completing the profiles to the wall, securing with poured concrete, and then the completion with the pre-fabricated stone capping. This is very much intricate manual work -- machines can only do so much! The next step involves swinging in Precast Retaining Structure, Standard Capping Units (1.4T - supplied by Banagher Precast Concrete). Accuracy satisfied, the welder melds them together. A race against time, schedules - and the winter rains