River Dargle Flood Scheme, Bray, Co. Wicklow: P1250153_a
River Dargle Flood Defence Scheme.
These images were taken during the fourth week of April 2017.
Most of the main civil engineering works have ceased along the Slang/Rehills section of the river bank.
However, the soil-shifters are at it again.
Smaller operation than before, but a steady process of removing soil, shifting soil and reshaping the banks.
Said it before, and I'll say it again . . . . .
I call it the 'Biggest Sandpit/Playarea' in Wicklow, in Leinster, in Ireland.
The place is a mess. Aesthetically, the uneven flow to the ridges and terraces annoys me.
Early Spring, and an unusually dry period had re-introduced the dust clouds.
You don't have to be a certified civil engineer to figure out that there are quicker and more efficient ways to move the soil.
Using one excavator, a few dumper-trucks and a single bulldozer is a process not driven by time/cost.
If you 'really' had to complete this work quickly, you'd line up a few 'bigboy' bulldozers . . . . . and shift the soil in days, rather than weeks-months.
Obviously someone has a Plan.
So everyone works to the Plan.
Except that there have obviously been many Plans.
This 'hurdler on the ditch' simply comments on the piecemeal nature of this planning!
Coming up now on 5 years of this work.
River Dargle Flood Scheme, Bray, Co. Wicklow: P1250153_a
River Dargle Flood Defence Scheme.
These images were taken during the fourth week of April 2017.
Most of the main civil engineering works have ceased along the Slang/Rehills section of the river bank.
However, the soil-shifters are at it again.
Smaller operation than before, but a steady process of removing soil, shifting soil and reshaping the banks.
Said it before, and I'll say it again . . . . .
I call it the 'Biggest Sandpit/Playarea' in Wicklow, in Leinster, in Ireland.
The place is a mess. Aesthetically, the uneven flow to the ridges and terraces annoys me.
Early Spring, and an unusually dry period had re-introduced the dust clouds.
You don't have to be a certified civil engineer to figure out that there are quicker and more efficient ways to move the soil.
Using one excavator, a few dumper-trucks and a single bulldozer is a process not driven by time/cost.
If you 'really' had to complete this work quickly, you'd line up a few 'bigboy' bulldozers . . . . . and shift the soil in days, rather than weeks-months.
Obviously someone has a Plan.
So everyone works to the Plan.
Except that there have obviously been many Plans.
This 'hurdler on the ditch' simply comments on the piecemeal nature of this planning!
Coming up now on 5 years of this work.