GENERAL PROJECT

Killingworth Road - wall repair

We are working hard to repair the wall on Killingworth Road - we will use this page to provide updates about the repair and also the work required to clean up and reinstate the affected area.

Update by Christine Taylor

Good afternoon,

I hope everyone had a lovely weekend.  I had a catch up with the site team today, and they have provided an update.

Last week I posted that that our team had identified Himalayan Bolsam.  As we said, our team did have to stop work to prevent the spread of contamination. See below for further details of events last week.

  • The Balsam has now been removed from the existing dumpy bags stabilising failed section of wall. On Monday the Blsam was bagged and left on site as per PBA advise.
  • PBA Advanced Ecology attended site last Wednesday to view Balsam situation and advise. Stone under the tarmac,(stripped last week) not considered contaminated.
  • Existing Bags and stone in water course to be treated as contaminated waste.
  • Started to place bags last Thursday to form cofferdam.
  • Additional bags for coffer dam were delivered Friday, and we continued with cofferdam installation

I will post in the next few days, the planned work for this week.

As always, please feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns.

Christine

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