There was a bentonite spill at around 1am.

The presence of fire and police personnel on site is part of the clean up. Those noisy sucker trucks are back to try and recover some of the bentonite.

The good news is that the trucks stopped

BIG plans for the area are well underway. Details are here

A number of you have talked to me about the dramatic increase in noise and vibration in recent weeks. We have been meeting with CYP and are very slowly making some progress, I think.

Noise 1

This was a metal on metal scraping noise. Often around 5am. Sandy worked out it was a loader over at Edmund Herring Oval, where they were doing a tidy-up by scraping the bucket along the concrete. They have modified the equipment and so we should not hear it now. You can hear it (before the change) in the video below.

Noise 2

There has been a lot of truck movements during the night. Initially I thought the trucks were going to and from the area in front of The Domain but it seems they are from CYP’s city site.

I have a little system that analyses the video from my balcony camera – last night we had over 100 trucks go past between 10pm-7am. No wonder we were being woken up.

CYP and RPV are saying all the right things…we are doing some detailed work…some trucks may be using St Kilda Rd…they should not be an issue..

Hopefully a solution soon. You can see still photos of the trucks in the file below.

Vibration

There has been some terrible vibrations occurring at various times of the day and night. CYP had the vibration guru here a few days back and he felt and measured it. It apparently all relates to equipment at Edmund Herring Oval and the filter devices.

The latest info from CYP is…The meeting last night with Herrenknecht last night went well. I understand that there are some adjustments that are going to be made to the filters early next week, Andreas is going to advise me when that can be scheduled in

Feel free to call them and register your feelings…1800 105 105

I don’t know what was going on?

While I’m talking about noises in the night – lots of you have mentioned being woken by a scraping noise. We’ve tracked it down.

The noise was a Front End Loader up at Edmund Herring Oval.  The operator was scraping the bucket to clean up the concrete area.
They have now put some rubber trim on it, it should stop the noise.

Let me know if it fixes it

A few days rolled into one timelapse video…stay safe

We are wishing this didn’t have to be, but it is a reality for us all for the next six weeks.

If you are not sure of the details, here is the government website that has everything.

For us at The Botanica, a few simple things

….Only two in the lift at a time

….No delivery people past the front steps. Paul will help carry stuff up, or ask a neighbour please.

….We are getting ‘no contact’ sanitiser dispensers installed

Stay safe

This guy was stopped and they used a spotter to allow him to dump his load…thanks Sammy

Finally some action on trucks breaching the ‘no beepers’ rule.

You should have received a note about some noisy CYP work in Bowen Cres this week.

The NDD work (the noisy stuff) will most likely be from Wednesday morning thru Thursday

The message in brief is below…including he 1800 number if you have queries….

As part of water main relocation works, the team must drill underneath St Kilda Road to tap into a water connection point at the corner of Bowen Crescent.

The main disruption for Botanica residents is that the exit from Bowen Crescent onto St Kilda Road will be closed between Monday 6 July and Tuesday 14 July.

Access to Botanica’s Bowen Crescent driveway will be maintained, but residents will be required to exit towards Kings Way.

The turn into Bowen Crescent from St Kilda Road will be unaffected.

As always, we appreciate your patience. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to us on 1800 105 105.

Kind regards,

Rob, Jordan and Dan

Something a little different…timelapse of yesterday’s cloudy sky