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New Everton Stadium

The "not finished yet" thing is surely nonsense. Roof and drainage should be well finished and fully operational at this point (and long since). However, I hope it is just a bizarre scheduling error and not a miscalculation of drainage capacity. I'm also bit surprised that any failure/overflow route (for an upturned or barrel-roof design) is within the bowl footprint, and not fully external, to avoid this. Either of which could require some expensive mitigation. Hopefully it's as trivial as they're suggesting.
 
Tom Hughes said:
The "not finished yet" thing is surely nonsense. Roof and drainage should be well finished and fully operational at this point (and long since). However, I hope it is just a bizarre scheduling error and not a miscalculation of drainage capacity. I'm also bit surprised that any failure/overflow route (for an upturned or barrel-roof design) is within the bowl footprint, and not fully external, to avoid this. Either of which could require some expensive mitigation. Hopefully it's as trivial as they're suggesting.
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I mean we are right next to the river ffs, water run off should have been one of the easier problems to design??
 
Tom Hughes said:
The "not finished yet" thing is surely nonsense. Roof and drainage should be well finished and fully operational at this point (and long since). However, I hope it is just a bizarre scheduling error and not a miscalculation of drainage capacity. I'm also bit surprised that any failure/overflow route (for an upturned or barrel-roof design) is within the bowl footprint, and not fully external, to avoid this. Either of which could require some expensive mitigation. Hopefully it's as trivial as they're suggesting.
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Even if it’s a minor issue, the club needs to stop making these cock ups as it only fuels negative clickbait articles.
This snide article is from The Guardian:

“The deluge came earlier this week, with a bitterly appropriate sense of timing. As the precursor to the approaching Storm Darragh emptied its load over the north-west of England, video footage showed the stands and stairways of Everton’s new stadium cascading with rainwater, filling and flooding the concourses beneath.

Which – in an ideal world – is probably not the image you want people to conjure up when they think of your new £760m waterfront stadium, built on a floodplain, surrounded on three sides by the River Mersey and expected to withstand decades of climate change and devastating sea level rises.

Naturally Everton were quick to allay any alarm, insisting that the new stadium would boast an advanced “siphonic drainage” system designed to deal with heavy rainfall, but which has not yet been installed. Which certainly answered one question, while raising another. According to the club’s timescale, construction of the stadium is due to be completed “in the final weeks of 2024”.

Well, here we are. Might be a good time to get cracking on that siphonic drainage system.”
 

There will always be glitches in a project of this size. As @davek said previously the surprise is how little has gone wrong
Apart from the tragic fatal accident that claimed the life of the young man.

I do think however that the club could provide some more detail about what the problems are.
The lack of clarity gives anyone with a negative agenda the chance to make the ground and the club look poor.
 
Tom Hughes said:
The "not finished yet" thing is surely nonsense. Roof and drainage should be well finished and fully operational at this point (and long since). However, I hope it is just a bizarre scheduling error and not a miscalculation of drainage capacity. I'm also bit surprised that any failure/overflow route (for an upturned or barrel-roof design) is within the bowl footprint, and not fully external, to avoid this. Either of which could require some expensive mitigation. Hopefully it's as trivial as they're suggesting.
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The overflow system and tanks weren’t connected on the last occasion, due to some other work that needed doing. I know that for a fact.
 
blueblue said:
There will always be glitches in a project of this size. As @davek said previously the surprise is how little has gone wrong
Apart from the tragic fatal accident that claimed the life of the young man.

I do think however that the club could provide some more detail about what the problems are.
The lack of clarity gives anyone with a negative agenda the chance to make the ground and the club look poor.
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I thought it was addressed by the Club. We were informed it was the syphonic drainage not yet installed/connected.
 
blueblue said:
There will always be glitches in a project of this size. As @davek said previously the surprise is how little has gone wrong
Apart from the tragic fatal accident that claimed the life of the young man.

I do think however that the club could provide some more detail about what the problems are.
The lack of clarity gives anyone with a negative agenda the chance to make the ground and the club look poor.
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I have extendable ladders and clear our gutters out regularly. If the club need me they can find me.

No job too large or small.
 

14_dollars said:
Even if it’s a minor issue, the club Principle Contractor needs to stop making these cock ups as it only fuels negative clickbait articles.
This snide article is from The Guardian:

“The deluge came earlier this week, with a bitterly appropriate sense of timing. As the precursor to the approaching Storm Darragh emptied its load over the north-west of England, video footage showed the stands and stairways of Everton’s new stadium cascading with rainwater, filling and flooding the concourses beneath.

Which – in an ideal world – is probably not the image you want people to conjure up when they think of your new £760m waterfront stadium, built on a floodplain, surrounded on three sides by the River Mersey and expected to withstand decades of climate change and devastating sea level rises.

Naturally Everton were quick to allay any alarm, insisting that the new stadium would boast an advanced “siphonic drainage” system designed to deal with heavy rainfall, but which has not yet been installed. Which certainly answered one question, while raising another. According to the club’s timescale, construction of the stadium is due to be completed “in the final weeks of 2024”.

Well, here we are. Might be a good time to get cracking on that siphonic drainage system.”
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FTFY
 
PhilM said:
The overflow system and tanks weren’t connected on the last occasion, due to some other work that needed doing. I know that for a fact.
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It's one thing if there is back-up system that is not yet commissioned..... but for a barrel roof, that shouldn't mean that the gutter ever overflows into the back of the stadium bowl. Surely that gutter should be outside that footprint so that the system fails-safe, and doesn't flood any internal spaces if the siphonic drain is unable to cope, for whatever reason.
 
I honestly don't see a big issue with an unfinished stadium letting in water during a major storm.

Rather now then after we've moved into it, surely?

I'm not surprised to see the RS loving media being snide about it but I'm surprised to see some of our own supporters taking it so to heart.
 

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