Frank S, Andy and Paul were out on Wednesday to work on a permissive footpath in Pecket Well; the main access path to Pecket Well playground. It starts by the council owned garages near Pecket Bar and slopes downhill toward the play area. The path is subject to water damage coming from the high banking on the road side, particularly at the bottom end that had become a treacherous quagmire. Last year we dug a drainage channel to tackle this problem and this has allowed this muddy area to dry out. Today's task was to reinforce the drainage channel and to build a short flight of steps to enable safer passage through the troublesome area.
This work was funded by Wadsworth Parish Council - a big thank you!
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| Key pointer to the worksite |
The path becomes overgrown annually with invasive Himalayan Balsam. This year local residents had cut back this incursion to make the path accessible; an action that made clearing out the channel much easier.
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| Drainage channel? In there somewhere! |
The path itself, however, was accessible and dry
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| Bottom end of path. |
Frank S and Andy set about measuring up for the steps:
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| Andy starting the steps. |
Meanwhile Paul dug out the mowed cuttings as preparation for installing an edging to the new drainage channel:
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| Ground prepared for new channel |
Frank and Andy slogged away at making the steps -m digging through a stubborn gravelly surface was the biggest problem!.
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| Andy at work |
We were fortunate with the weather although the sunny intervals brought out swarms of flies which took a liking to Paul, much to the hilarity of Frank and Andy! (No flies on them!).
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| Two lengths of edging installed. |
A flight of six steps was completed along with the fitting of three lengths of revetment to support the drainage channel.
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| New drainage channel completed. |
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| New flight of steps. |
