TinnerStreet

Here I am, writing yet another episode in our saga, and I wonder whether I should call it something like “The various levels of our street”?  No, I will leave it as it is.   I include the photos as I think of the saying that one picture is worth a thousand words; that is a load of rubbish of course, as you could describe the subject of my photos in very few words, as I have.  In fact there is a question which you may be able to answer for me – if the picture says it all, why do I write a short caption underneath it?  Ah, got you this time, haven’t I?

Today, the series starts off with a photo of …..

Stuart and Pam (I had managed to stagger on to the verandah with my heavy bag, of a packet of biscuits.)  Oh yes, it took all three of us, as the car was down the street, and there was plenty to carry.  I should have thunk quicker though, as I could have sent Stu back for another load, thereby making my job redundant.

It is late afternoon, or getting on to that, so the activity on the road is to pack up to go home.  I must admit that I have enjoyed watching the action – I have spent a little time out there over a few days – and the reason for that is that I love to see experts doing what they are expert in.  I like to see the way they tackle their work so easily, taking up so little time whereas I would still be thinking of what to do next.

This is the second ‘sink hole’, which will hold water from the roadway in heavy rain, as it releases it to the system of pipes under the road which I, and through my pictures, you have seen built into a waste water system.   This second hole is right outside our house, and opposite the gutter which has been pinched.  In this photo you can see a little of our drive in the foreground and the edge of the safety frame on the right.

The photo above shows – 1) the new pipe coming into the sink hole, or small reservoir, and in the foreground, 2) the very old pipe which as been the sole way of moving waste surface water from the area behind us (Dolphin Avenue and the Gold Coast Highway) in the past.  That pipe took the water across our street, under the garage of the house opposite, and through a small estate of homes, until emptying into a canal about 500 metres away, picking up surface water as it went.   You do not have to be too smart to know that that old pipe would have had great trouble keeping the water level down.  Of course, that pipe would have been laid between 20 and thirty years ago, so we cannot really criticise decisions made and work performed at those times, but there are neighbours who are doing, of course.  Not surprising, is it?

This is another view of the third sink hole, and the two pipes.  The old one on the right will be cut and directed into the hole, so that any surface water coming along that line will be collected by our new drains.  Then, that pipe will be blocked to avoid any water running back, which it shouldn’t anyway.

This shot is taken from our house – see our pink drive in the foreground – along the nature strip of the next house, No 17, and to No 19, where our car is parked behind the digger.  We might be able to get our car into our drive tonight, but …   I might go to the library today.  I say that only to say that I will be able to go out with my books, and then bring my new books back, having a good look at the work as I do.  That way, the workers will not get the impression that I am keeping an eye on them, even though I am.  Damn it, I have to wait for an hour before there is any movement out on the road.

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