The Kintyre Forum

Does anyone have any views on the Green?

The park has become so waterlogged that areas of the park can no longer be used and the football pitch has had the goals removed only six weeks after being erected.

Start cultivating mussels on it and we will be back to square one..even get the ferry back from Campbeltown to Dalintober perhaps..





Dunc

The flooding is due to the path being laid too high between the swimming pool and the old Scout Hall. If you can remember, the old paths were laid about a foot lower than the level of the playing surface to allow for drain off. The area now flooding was always a a bad patch, but never retained water on the surface because of a gradual drain into the lower path area. In other words they've created a dam.

Alex McKinven

Pretty useless all in all.

Can't play football in a swimming pool.

Shame the Aqualibrium is surrounded by pump stations and parks flooded.

The main reason that Kinloch Green is waterlogged is because the Council's drains are draining into the sewerage system. The sewerage system is full and partially backed-up under the green at times. This means that the water cannot get away. The Council and Scottish Water are working on a plan to resolve this situation but it is always going to be a problem until or unless they get the sewerage system working properly.

It is a DAMP disgrace

Task Force wrote:The main reason that Kinloch Green is waterlogged is because the Council's drains are draining into the sewerage system. The sewerage system is full and partially backed-up under the green at times. This means that the water cannot get away. The Council and Scottish Water are working on a plan to resolve this situation but it is always going to be a problem until or unless they get the sewerage system working properly.

I grant this is the main reason but the design of the new paths don't help the green at all. Naturally water will fall on the paths and drain off to the side and to the park causing flooding which never happened before.

Really hope the Council can find the drains and sort the problem - Kinloch Green should be a centre piece to the town. In the process of fixing this the whole green should be looked at and some kind of project delivered which will look at the long term of the Green.

Well it didn't flood like that before they "sorted" the old pathways. The old paths had quite wide drains at each side. Of course, some of it still flooded, but not up past yer ankles like it is now!!!!!!!

Rather interesting letter in the Courier about this today from Alex McKinven which highlights the problems the Council may have caused themselves by removing the old paths!

Mack wrote:The flooding is due to the path being laid too high between the swimming pool and the old Scout Hall. If you can remember, the old paths were laid about a foot lower than the level of the playing surface to allow for drain off. The area now flooding was always a a bad patch, but never retained water on the surface because of a gradual drain into the lower path area. In other words they've created a dam.

Alex McKinven

Remember the old paths well, below pics with the new.