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Dargle flood works

  • 30-08-2013 9:55pm
    #1
    Maudi
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    The works on the dargle (as i predicted on here when they began and was poo pooed apologies accepted) have stopped again with the completion (and winter) date fast approaching does anybody know what has happened to cause this latest halt to these vital works.


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    Annasopra
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    Maudi wrote: »
    The works on the dargle (as i predicted on here when they began and was poo pooed apologies accepted) have stopped again with the completion (and winter) date fast approaching does anybody know what has happened to cause this latest halt to these vital works.

    I was down there yesterday the work was going on

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #3
    B0jangles
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    Yeah I was down at the bridge yesterday and they were working away. I did notice that the stonework of the bridge looks pretty shaken up - 1-2 cm gaps have opened up between blocks all over the place :(


  • #4
    Maudi
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    mango salsa wrote: »
    I was down there yesterday the work was going on

    I did see activity going on myself but according to a mate who drives a machine down there who is out of work on this projecy (again)and according to an article in the north wicklow times there are issues unresolved between the contractors and wcc (again)and looking unlikely its going to meet the october deadline.and as above mentioned the works on the bridge itself are "questionable"


  • #5
    Witcher
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    They're underpinning the bridge itself at the moment so that's why the pointing is opening up on the brickwork.


  • #6
    B0jangles
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    Blay wrote: »
    They're underpinning the bridge itself at the moment so that's why the pointing is opening up on the brickwork.

    Ah, that makes sense, thanks for the explanation!


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  • #7
    Splendour
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    Maudi wrote: »
    I did see activity going on myself but according to a mate who drives a machine down there who is out of work on this projecy (again)and according to an article in the north wicklow times there are issues unresolved between the contractors and wcc (again)and looking unlikely its going to meet the october deadline.and as above mentioned the works on the bridge itself are "questionable"

    Yep-SIAC and the council are 'in talks' about the plans and seeing how they have to stop work at the end of September (at least down my way) it'll be next Spring before they get going again-that is if they've sorted their differences by then!

    I'm hopping mad over these works as they have left our back garden totally exposed. Before they started the works there was about a 12 foot drop down to the river thus making our property relatively safe. Now they've built a bank which slopes right up to the garden and anyone can just walk up.


  • #8
    Maudi
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    Blay wrote: »
    They're underpinning the bridge itself at the moment so that's why the pointing is opening up on the brickwork.

    Why is the bridge being underpinned?


  • #9
    Maudi
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    Blay wrote: »
    They're underpinning the bridge itself at the moment so that's why the pointing is opening up on the brickwork.

    Why is the bridge being underpinned?


  • #10
    sallymomo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 256 ✭✭sallymomo


    I would imagine that due to years and years of heavy flows of water pushing through the bridge arches that some of the foundations have been washed away.
    I think when you see roads collapsing in various countries from flood waters it is due to foundations/river beds weakened from volumes of water at speed.
    I'm not in favour of SIAC taking so long with the works but i am in favour of them underpinning the only traffic crossing of the river we have! (barring the harbour of course)


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