Maribyrnong’s underwater park: an update

Tue 13 December 2011 7:15am by
Filed under: General 

Do you remember the pics of the brand new Maribyrnong playground from a couple of weeks ago, showing severe drainage problems?

New park in Maribyrnong underwater

On Saturday night there was heavy rain in the area, but evidently the City of Maribyrnong’s drainage experts have been busy, because on Sunday morning the park was almost dry — and certainly not underwater.

Maribyrnong playground - no longer underwater

I like the way the notices made it clear they weren’t totally oblivious to the problems.

Maribyrnong playground - no longer underwater

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9 comments on Maribyrnong’s underwater park: an update

  1. roger on Tue, 13th Dec 2011 7:47 am

    2. Perhaps those council workers could share that knowledge with City of Bayside. We only need 5mm of rain and roads, underpasses, bike paths and ovals flood.

  2. Julian on Tue, 13th Dec 2011 9:14 am

    3. I wonder how much your post influenced their decision to act. Nothing like some shame to get people off their butts!

  3. Marcus W on Tue, 13th Dec 2011 9:31 am

    4. If only Metro would be so proactive with their continually flooding pedestrian subways (and more importantly – Windsor Station!)

  4. Andrew S on Tue, 13th Dec 2011 10:48 am

    5. Many of those pedestrian subways need pumping to stay dry as they are in low trap points below the surrounding system – Sandown Park subway you can hear operating after rain and still collects water through the weep holes in the retaining walls as the soil is still moist. In the case of WIndsor it looks like the entire pit area in in a low trap spot.

    Unfortunately once they fail the whole thing fills with water!

  5. Andrew on Tue, 13th Dec 2011 1:00 pm

    6. Cleaned the leaves out of the drains I expect.

  6. Ren on Sun, 18th Dec 2011 3:47 pm

    7. Jesus… that’s the monstrosity they replaced the grand old park playground with. Drainage issues aside, how ugly.

  7. Daniel on Sun, 18th Dec 2011 4:29 pm

    8. @Ren, you might be thinking of another location. There was no playground in this location previously; it was just empty space.

    http://www.nearmap.com/?ll=-37.789529,144.901701&z=21&t=k&nmd=20091012

  8. Doug on Tue, 20th Dec 2011 5:24 pm

    9. Actually, a part of Talbot Park on Centre Road, Clarinda has been underwater for over a year. I ride past through it nearly every day!

  9. Dave on Thu, 29th Dec 2011 4:45 pm

    10. So did the playground survive the Xmas day storms?