New Kilbarry Park

comeraghs

From Waterford Today
Landscape contracts were signed on Friday 18th February 2010 at City Hall for the landscaping of Kilbarry Nature Park. As part of an overall investment of €1.2 million, this landscape contract will transform the landfill into a local and regional public amenity.
Situated to the south of the city in Kilbarry (between the Tramore and Cork roads and adjacent to Kilbarry Bog which is a Proposed Natural Heritage Area (pNHA)) the landfill covers an area of approximately 20 hectares. The site is large enough to provide a 2.4 kilometre network of running paths, exercise stations, play areas, wildflower meadows, woodland planting scheme, etc. This park will have an ecological focus and provide an aesthetically pleasing and stimulating park environment for the city. Much of the work will take place at this site in the coming months to ensure that the park is completed in the autumn.
Kilbarry Landfill closed in August 2005 and under conditions of its licence a remediation and aftercare plan was instigated. This involved sealing off the waste from the surrounding environment by installing a plastic layer and subsoil on top of the landfill. More recently, works have been completed on the surface water management system, new entrance, car park and associated bridges to enable work to begin on the park itself.
The design work on the project was completed by landscape architects Mitchell & Associates, heading up a design team that included Crestwood Environmental Ltd, Healy Kelly Turner & Townsend and ARUP. Following a procurement process, Grangemore Landscapes Ltd are the appointed contractor.

comeraghs

I think this will be a great addition to the city, especially the running track & exercise stations, Hopefully it´ll all be done well.

mike65

Sounds promising apart from the likelyhood it'll be a playground for feral types.

Joey leBlanc

mike65 wrote: »

Sounds promising apart from the likelyhood it'll be a playground for feral types.

Once a dump, always a dump!

mike65

Any word on this opening? Or did I miss the ribbon cutting?

fricatus

mike65 wrote: »

Any word on this opening? Or did I miss the ribbon cutting?

Those ribbon cuttings are printed so widely in the local papers that you couldn't possibly have missed it!

AFAIK it's not yet open.

Bards

From what I recall, it is due to be opened sometine during the coming Spring/Summer to allow the landscaping (which was planted last year) to mature.

billythepig

opening in may/june of this year,
tis a fine place alright.

Kracken

Its great to see it being done, just hope scumbags don't break every tree in the place on the first night...

it will great to be kids to on the weekend etc...

billythepig

and they should charge a dog sh1tting tax for anyone walking dogs through it.

membersonly

billythepig wrote: »

and they should charge a dog sh1tting tax for anyone walking dogs through it.

How the hell is a dog going to pay tax Billythepig?

billythepig

membersonly wrote: »

How the hell is a dog going to pay tax Billythepig?

i pay tax and prsi, and im a pig

wellboy76

Nobody at all seems concerned that next to keilys and Harvey Norman warehouse there is a big pipe puking methane still from the dump underneath this park.

You can see the haze from the lacken road

wellboytoo

wellboy76 wrote: »

Nobody at all seems concerned that next to keilys and Harvey Norman warehouse there is a big pipe puking methane still from the dump underneath this park.

You can see the haze from the lacken road

Sure we all have one of them!

wellboy76

wellboytoo wrote: »

Sure we all have one of them!

You'd be a brave man to light that fart

Marchandire

1.2 million Euro? Would we not be better off putting that money into attracting new industries and businesses to the city?

That's a hell of a lot of money for a few short-term construction jobs, and a park isn't going to solve our huge unemployment problems.

abouttobebanned

You need to look at the bigger picture. If we spend all our time, money and resources trying to attract unnamed and unknown companies, in time we'll end up neglecting our city in other ways. New companies are now starting to look at that bigger picture when contemplating setting up here...standard of living, school and recreational set ups etc.

I knew a man once who constantly tried to get new customers, by what ever means possible...he was tired of the same old faces... In the end of course he has changed so much, and spent needless money that he lost most of his original customers and any new ones that he got didn't stay too long...

Nypd

Marchandire wrote: »

1.2 million Euro? Would we not be better off putting that money into attracting new industries and businesses to the city?

That's a hell of a lot of money for a few short-term construction jobs, and a park isn't going to solve our huge unemployment problems.

The city is a business and all aspects of it has to be maintained, a park like this will bring visitors in from other counties.

CardBordWindow

Marchandire wrote: »

1.2 million Euro? Would we not be better off putting that money into attracting new industries and businesses to the city?

That's a hell of a lot of money for a few short-term construction jobs, and a park isn't going to solve our huge unemployment problems.

Sure all the unemployed people need somewhere nice to go!

wellboytoo

You must look at the big picture alright, which is exactly what the City Council were not doing for thirty odd years when they should have been accruing €150000. per annum to rectify the old dump, so they telescoped all the costs in to one year and cried about it, but it was bad planning simple as .