The Kintyre Forum

I know it was wet last week but the state Kinloch Park was in was a disgrace.

This is the piece of land that was sorted following iniital problems with draining following the addition of the new paths on Kinloch Park as part of the Aqualibrium.

It is clear to see there is still a problem....the other side now floods too.

Anyone??...

Hi Davie

Apart from the water on the grass. I like the photo. You are quite right the state of the green is a disgrace. I think it should be brought up at the next community council meeting. Perhaps our three councillors could answer why it is like that?

I know at one meeting a local builder mentioned that while digging on the green he was shocked to find that some of the sewerage system is just below the surface. Makes you wonder what is in the surface water?

Why don't you send that photo to the parks dept. to see what they come up with and ask who got paid for supposedly sorting this out

jeanette

If there was enough support from the board I would contact the council for comment.

I've raised it a number of times and also mentioned it to RC. Don't want to sound like a trouble maker but Kinloch park has never flooded like it does now and it is clearly to do wth the work carried out with the new paths and the re-alignment of the parks.

Personally - as residents of Kintyre we should ensure the council doesn't accept this work. It has already happened after the sewerage system install a couple of years ago and look at the Quarry Green now...

Please show you support....

Following their success in allowing the park to be used for the corncrakes and the resultant government funding Argyll & Bute have diversified into rice growing and thanks to Scottish Water they now have ready made underground, piped-in fertilizer for their new project, rice growing
Henceforth, Kinloch Park will be known as the "Paddy Field"
Avoid the Kilmory canteen at all costs

oorly

Davie like you have played football on the green in all weathers for more years than i care to remember and have never seen as much water lying on it than in your picture which to me would indicate that the work done on the paths etc or indeed the hangover from the work done by scottish water is the cause of the problems.

Aside from that is it the intention for football still to be played on the green after the building work is completed

Hi Davie ,
You have my FULL support ,
I used to play football on that side of the park , and i've never seen it flooded like that .
Somebody knows exactly why ,all engineers who worked on the project couldn't have been daft .
Cheers
Frosty

DOUBLE A wrote:Aside from that is it the intention for football still to be played on the green after the building work is completed

Yes - I have to say the surface for the new pitch looks excellent in contrast and there was no water lying there...

The problem is certainly to do with the current project. The original paths, as you know, were below the level of the green (there is a name for this??? French Drains or likes???? ) These ones are above the level of the green so all rains runs off onto the green - doh!

Here are another couple of pics from last week

Maybe there is a leak in the floor ofthe new pool???


And this one shows the bit of the park on the Esplanade side clearly showing the water lying where the old paths used to run across Kinloch Park!



Sorry to sound like a right moan folks about this but as you can clearly see this is something that gets on my goat!! (not yours Garg btw! )

Save Kinloch Park!

Davie,

I agree with your comments above.

Whereabouts is the new park to be in comparison to the old one

Double A, Do you mean a football park?

I hope they landscape the whole area and put in paths, flowerbeds and benches and make it into a real park

There are not enough recreational areas in the town for people to go and sit. I wonder why they removed the benches that used to be there.

At the moment the whole green is just one big void

hoots

Lets not go down the debate of the football park thing....

There is enough room on th green for a mixture of both and having recreation facilities for sports doesn't mean there can't be a mixture of both....

However, it the state it is just now perhaps Sid Gallagher could get the canoe club over there in the winter!!

I will add this to AOB for next community council meeting. Problem is we have only one councillor at a time as they rotate their attendance at CCC unlike in the past when all councillors made an effort to attend monthly meetings. The councillors who attend Southend, the Laggan and East and West Kintyre community councils do not rotate their attendance at these meetings.

I find that extremely difficult to understand. Campbeltown has a CCC and you never have the 3 elected councillors there? How do they know what is going on?

I would respectfully suggest, however, that the Council are contacted in the first instance. After all it is there responsibility. Our poor councillors have just to relay our moans!

Davie,

that's a really good comment. The green is in a terrible state I used tae scratch and scrape doon there and it was never in that state.

Obviously poor workmanship to blame. I think the idea of a real park would be the way forward for everyone to enjoy but I notice some of the above are only concerned aboot the fitba angle.

There's nae flooding on Kintyre park or the great wee field up here in the Dale. All these coloured jerseys runnin roon Kinloch shouting "Pass the baw wee man" and "ower here big man" jeest spoil a good view.

I know I'm going off the thread a wee bit but then so is everyone else.

A week in bed with Flu and I can see I'm back just in time.


bubbly

Davie, given that the new pool is on the first floor (2nd if you're reading this in the USA), and the new library is on the floor below, I'd say that if the pool were to spring a leak it could be pretty catastrophic for the books.

Nice pics, by the way. Very moody clouds.

Cheers
Gary