Creek Reconstruction by the Turning Circle

'Littlewood's internet connection was to be upgraded to fibre-to-the-premises. When the installers came to do the work, they discovered that the cable connection pit to the house was very close to the creek that flows under the bridge in their driveway and then a short distance later, under the Windsong driveway bridge before flowing on behind all the properties to Pembroke Road. The problem was that the creek bank had heavily eroded over time and the telecoms cable pit as well as the electrical cable pit had collapsed down the creek bank.

After discussion between the electrical authority, NBN and Yarra Ranges Council (YRC) it was decided that the only viable solution was for YRC contractors to replace this short section of the creek with and underground pipe and then plant over the triangle created. This work was carried out over the past couple of weeks and, as you can imagine there was a bit of car shuffling going on during that time as driveways became inaccessible!

​But there was a further complication arising along the way. It became apparent that much of the timber in 'Windsong''s driveway bridge over the creek had rotted over the years and the best solution overall was to extend the new underground pipe a few more meters rather then rebuild the bridge.

The construction work has now been completed and looks very good. The red and white tape has since been removed and planting of the roadside verge will take place in the next few weeks.