Developer Disaster - rectification works in progress

Machinery arrived.  The pile of soil was dug out of the drain.

Clearing debris from the drain for the lorry to chuck away.

Materials arrived.

Men started work.

Work started on the wall of the monsoon drain.

Piling and reinforcements.

The 'concrete' vehicle arrived. 

wow, so much work just to re-build drain walls.

Repairing the edge at the front - the part that didn't collapse.

Patching up the cracks.

Walling the fence.  Luckily the weather was fine and sunny so the contractors can work continuously.

Concrete reinforcements for extra support which should have been done by the Developer because of the substantial width of this drain.

They even knocked down the last panel at the back and re-build it.

Walling near completion.

Finishing works - patching up here and there.

Knocking out the uneven part and patching up the front "unfallen" part of the fence in order to straighten the whole fence.

The front part - all made good.......

..... with reinforcements.  Now I don't have to jump across.  I can walk across.

The unpainted part was the 'fallen' portion of the fence.  Now, it's nice and straight.

That's the usual water level when it's not raining.  If it rains heavily, then the level will raise up to 1/2 or 3/4 of the height of the drain but the first time it ever overflowed was on 5 January 2012 during the flash flood.   

It took the contractors 2 weeks to complete the job right at the end of the year on 30 December 2011.  During that 2 weeks of work, weather was fine so activities went uninterrupted.  This group of contractors appointed by the Council did a very good job and I'm happy that the work was carried out smoothly and efficiently.  There was a lot of teamwork among the workers and the supervisors were capable and efficient.  Luckily for me, the flash flood that took 2 lives happened 5 days after completion of works on 5 January 2012.