Friends of the Happy Valley Group

[Yorkie]

Yorkie you know i have been trying too sort my waterfall problem out for years,wish it was that simple.

The answer seems to be in today's Weekly News - MONEY!   £30,000 to reinstate.   If that is the case then it would seem sense to start a fund now.  With a local population of approx 30,000 that's only a quid each!  If we can get another 50p from each visitor that should raise another £30,000 so we could have two waterfalls!

I'm waiting for a reply to my questions from others.

One County Councillor replied to me, "It's NOT MY WARD, have you spoken to Margaret Lyons?"   And there was me thinking that ALL Councillors, although elected on a Ward basis, were meant to work together for the benefit of the whole Community!   
Good old Dr Doolittle!

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[DaveR]

£30,000!!!! For a simple pump, timer and pipe? Both electricity and water connections are already there. How can that sort of price be justified?

[Nemesis]

Yorkie you know i have been trying too sort my waterfall problem out for years,wish it was that simple.

The answer seems to be in today's Weekly News - MONEY!   £30,000 to reinstate.   If that is the case then it would seem sense to start a fund now.  With a local population of approx 30,000 that's only a quid each!  If we can get another 50p from each visitor that should raise another £30,000 so we could have two waterfalls!

I'm waiting for a reply to my questions from others.

One County Councillor replied to me, "It's NOT MY WARD, have you spoken to Margaret Lyons?"   And there was me thinking that ALL Councillors, although elected on a Ward basis, were meant to work together for the benefit of the whole Community!   
Good old Dr Doolittle!

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[wrex]

Just an excuse,unless a certain county cll and his father priced for it

[Yorkie]

Re:  Happy Valley Water Feature -  I have received the following information:

'Happy valley garden is a green flag site and has a 5 year management plan in place, part of this plan is to identify in conjunction with the friends group monies to reinstate the pound and waterway liners.
We have undertaken surveys of this area and identified the issues, however, the waterway will need to be totally refurbished and at present funding is not available.
This I'm sure with the continued support and commitment of the friends group, will be rectified.'

More information is also expected later.   

[llandudnotrust]

The Waterfall works but it leaks and due to its long state of idleness Newts etc have been living there and that needs dealing with. We have been given outline costs of 0-£4K repair to existing pumping system £8K -12K to replace pump system and a new water feature £30K with a provision for Consultancy fees £5k. But once possible funding has been identified a professional specialist water feature company would need to be on site to quote.
The Friends of Happy Valley are hoping that it can go ahead but we have had the Grade 2 listed Lamps restored and with much hard graft opened up the Zig Zag path by the Colonnades and cleared the drains on the roof.
I will post more if you are interested.

Gerry

[DaveR]

Please do post more, I know a number if people would like to hear more about progress at Happy Valley, including me. The Friends are doing a great job so far.

The various costs outlined for the water feature sound very high! The infrastructure, ie, pipes, water supply, electricity supply are all already in place, so surely we're just talking about a pump, controller and sealing the watercourse?

Here's another idea - what's the feasibility of tapping a borehole into the Orme to provide a natural flow of water? Given the figures we're talking about for a mechanical system, is this not worth considering? http://www.borehole.co.uk/

[Blongb]

Please do post more, I know a number if people would like to hear more about progress at Happy Valley, including me. The Friends are doing a great job so far.

The Friends were supposed to meet for a session yesterday afternoon but only one member turned up at the appointed time, so no progress this week. 

[DaveR]

The lower half of the water feature was working today, although having it running from a metered water supply may not be very cost effective!

[Ian]

The lower half of the water feature was working today, although having it running from a metered water supply may not be very cost effective!

Normally water features such as that simply recycle the water endlessly, only topping up occasionally.

[DaveR]

The lower half of the water feature was working today, although having it running from a metered water supply may not be very cost effective!

Normally water features such as that simply recycle the water endlessly, only topping up occasionally.

Indeed! From what I can see, CCBC has simply connected a mains water supply into the top pool, the water runs down into the bottom pool and flows away.

[Merddin Emrys]

We had a look this afternoon and saw it working, I can't see why it needs £30k spending on it, a pump, filter system, time switch, pipes, how hard can it be?  I find it amazing that years ago we had all these things done, now it's just excuses after excuses! 

[DaveR]

We had a look this afternoon and saw it working, I can't see why it needs £30k spending on it, a pump, filter system, time switch, pipes, how hard can it be?  I find it amazing that years ago we had all these things done, now it's just excuses after excuses! 

Indeed, it just makes you laugh that ridiculous figures like this aren't challenged and questioned more. The £30k included £5k in Consultants Fees - what could they possibly do that justifies that kind of payment? In all seriousness, I've seen bigger water features in peoples gardens!

[Merddin Emrys]

5k consultant's fee!  . Stupid beyond belief!  It's not rocket science at all!  this would never have happened in the good old days of the LUDC! 

[Yorkie]

I did sayI would see what I could do and it seems that instead of turning water into wine  -  I've managed to turn the whine into water!