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Gas back – next week we lose our Driveway for the day

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I’ve done exhaustive testing – our apartment – and it seems we have the gas back on.  If you drive down Bowen Crescent you may have noticed the discreet newly located gas meter!!  MMRA have agreed to fund some  garden work to help camouflage the monstrosity.

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Confirmation will come out on Monday but it seems that we will lose access to our St Kilda Rd driveway on Thursday October 5, from 9am – 4pm.

If you need to park in the Bowen Cres multi-storey park, you can claim the cost back from MMRA – see details below

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Update on Gas and Comms work

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As the residents of Botanica will have noticed, there is lots of work happening.  The current plan (subject to change of course) is as follows:

  • Gas work next to the Bowen Cres driveway will be done this week.
    • Involves laying a concrete slab, installing a meter and cage
    • Garden will be re-instated at the end, as best it can be
    • We are likely to have a gas outage on Thursday during the day
  • Comms work under footpath
    • Most of the ‘work’ should be done by the end of this week
    • Footpath re-instatement should be done by end of next week
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Noisy night ahead?

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I have spotted road equipment across the road and done a search on the MMRA website.  Seems that they are re-surfacing St Kilda Rd TONIGHT (9pm – 6am)

I have already asked MMRA why this was not placed in our letterboxes and not emailed out??

Feel free to call and complain to their 24 hour number 1800551927

More details here

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More on water issues – Friday

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Yep – more issues again today

The complete shutoff on Wednesday(?) was tracked back to the guys out the front.  There is some very odd historical routing of water under our footpath.  The good news is that we’ve been able to see and photograph/document it all…and the valve was re-opened.

We’re not certain but seems today’s issues with v low pressure is related.  It seems that we have a lot of air trapped in our system and it’s currently being flushed out.

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Water problems

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Yes we had some issues with water supply this morning – the John Holland contractors who are working our the front were sure it had nothing to do with them but they turned things back to how they were yesterday and water started flowing

An amazing co-incidence.

Our plumber will be on site tomorrow to do some more checking.

Apologies…and I was worried they’d our break our internet connection