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Dublin blue 75
Player Valuation: £50m
Weeds starting to grow out of the tower and roof of the renovated pump house. A minor thing but they should be keeping on top of that.
Hopefully once the ownership is resolved, a competent commercial team will make a decision on the buildings use and execute on this in time for Aug 2025. Would be a shame (but very Everton) for it to be lying idle first game.
Kever10
Player Valuation: £20m
Can someone explain a couple of things about the water channel?
1, why did they started filling it with water before the piles of sand were removed from both ends?
2, they created a concrete barrier/wall and partial floor on the West Stand side of the channel, and seem to using the original dock wall on the river side, but the bottom appears to have been left as the impacted sand from the infill, dug down to about half the level of the original level. Why didnt they create a new levelled concreted surface on the base, and with it being a sand based bottom, will this not be disturbed with the flow of water over time?
3, they are apparently connecting the dock systems to maintsin water connectivity via pumps, but will these pumps be constantly active creating a fountain like effect, or will it be tide based and only occurring at certain times?
Thanks in advance for anyone who can answer.
Cheers
1, why did they started filling it with water before the piles of sand were removed from both ends?
2, they created a concrete barrier/wall and partial floor on the West Stand side of the channel, and seem to using the original dock wall on the river side, but the bottom appears to have been left as the impacted sand from the infill, dug down to about half the level of the original level. Why didnt they create a new levelled concreted surface on the base, and with it being a sand based bottom, will this not be disturbed with the flow of water over time?
3, they are apparently connecting the dock systems to maintsin water connectivity via pumps, but will these pumps be constantly active creating a fountain like effect, or will it be tide based and only occurring at certain times?
Thanks in advance for anyone who can answer.
Cheers
tommye
Player Valuation: £100m
1. The sand will level off and eventually form an even natural bed for the water, as per the ocean n shizz
2. Wall was created in that area alone to stop to gentle erosion of the infilled sand 'wall' which will undermine the paving etc now there.
By tanking it to the depth of the channel this will prevent that erosion.
3. The water is pumped in/out to maintain water flow and prevent stagnation.
Any idea why its not the dark blue fresh water like the next dock?
Ask DamoYeah spotted thatunless they know something we don't!!
He knows stuff we don’t know
Said so himself
AndyRJ
Player Valuation: £5m
1. They didn't start filling it per se, just allowed water to re-enter. At the southern end is an isolation structure which has pipes through it which can be closed off via penstock valves/ sluice gates. These are what the series of manholes are for at the surface above. These seperate the largely 'fresh' water to the south from the 'brackish' water in the northern docks.
At the northern end we have built a bridge, the only physical thing preventing the water from the northern docks entering the waterway was the sand infill. All LoR have done is remove this to allow water to re-enter. You could argue they could have removed a bit more of the remaining sand before allowing the water back in but nevertheless, they would always have to remove the last bit of sand whilst there was water present.
2. The concrete wall was needed adjacent to the West Stand because no existing dock wall was present here. The concrete section on the floor just forms part of what is essentially a retaining wall. The sand has been retained elsewhere to act as a natural bed and effectively mimic the rest of the docks. This will largely be for ecological purposes, that and there is no engineering need for the bed to be concrete.
No risk of this being disturbed, there will be little to no flow through this area except when they need to top the Leeds-Liverpool canal up through the dock system.
3. There aren't any pumps. The waterway is physically connected to the northern docks as we have built a bridge and not an isolation structure as per the southern end. This allows the brackish water from the northern docks to flow in and out of the waterway; not that there will be much in the way of 'flow' although Peel do maintain water in the dock system at/around a certain level. I believe that the southern isolation structure will remain closed most of the time, only being opened when there is a need to top up the canal/ southern docks.
You can see from the image below, pre-development the water in Bramley Moore dock was the same as the Northern Docks, with everything to the South through the Canal/ Dock system being largely fresh water. This will be the same following completion of the waterway.
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AndyRJ
Player Valuation: £5m
Because the waterway is linked to the Northern dock system which is brackish i.e. a mixture of fresh water and sea water.
The adjacent Southern docks are fed by the Leeds Liverpool Canal so are largely fresh water. Although they are topped up when needed by the brackish water from the Northern Docks so it isn't entirely fresh water.
Probably due to all the sand that's been disturbed, like @Kever10 i couldn't understand why they let water in before it was completely dug out, surely they've made the job that much harder ?
goldfinchmule
Player Valuation: £2.5m
Would look stunning dyed royal blue on match days.
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….told you our Joey can sort it.
What no benitez
You can knock Kenwright off that list
Full of Salmon I heard -
in tins ....