I’ve briefly mentioned before a big project
that the Trust is undertaking to replace services to Derwent Island. This
entails running an LPG gas supply pipe and a pipe to remove waste water along
the lake bed. During part of this work the pipes will float and create a
temporary pontoon so there will be some disruption for regular users of the
lake. The launch operators and regular wild swimmers have all been kept
informed about this and can make alternative arrangements. Our aim is to
minimise the impact in any way we can.
The specialist contractors who are doing
the job are very professional and I have complete faith in their doing a superb
job. You can see from the photographs what they had to do to get two mini-
diggers and two powered wheelbarrows over to the island. It hardly seemed
possible until I saw their skills in action. Fortunately it was a still day
with flat calm on the lake and they just drove the machinery straight on and
straight off the boats. The boats were impressively stable.
To create space for the diggers to work,
I’d had to clear some branches and brushwood but these will regenerate quickly
and in a short time they will have grown back. My volunteers did a great job
moving the wood around to a site for future burning.
This is a very unusual job and it is a
great relief to see that the contractors are so good at what they are doing.
Daisy and a friend’s dog Che spent the day
running around with the two dogs that live on the island
.
Daisy here:
Che’s been to stay. It was great.
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