SEQ pipeline - it's better the second time around ...

Excerpt from the Courier Mail (annotated):

Hokey pokey pipeline

21 May 2007

Work on the Western Corridor recycled water pipeline was delayed for "at least" two weeks while nearly a kilometre of pipes were dug up after just being laid, an Esk Shire councillor said yesterday.

"They told us in early February it (the pipeline) would be in the ground by the end of February but it was more like the end of March before they got any (pipes) in the ground," Cr Bruce Pearce, who lives near the work site, said.
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A spokesman for Deputy Premier Anna Bligh said yesterday that the pipes were removed as a "standard practice" [after a typical stuff up!] after tests on bedding material proved unsatisfactory.

Officials had wanted to use a cheaper crushed rock but "compaction targets could not be achieved" so sand was used.

He said 750m of pipe was removed, taking two days.

Cr Pearce said he drove by the pipeline every day and the Government wasn't telling the truth about the delay.

"It was two weeks at an absolute minimum," he said.

See - Courier Mail - Hokey pokey pipeline.


By the time the pipeline is laid and re-laid, it will be a world record if it is completed on time.

Once again the State Labor government is stretching the truth - was it 2 days or 2 weeks before the pipeline was relaid ...