• Report by:

    Ann Davie, Depute Chief Executive

  • TN Number:

    133-23

  • Subject:

    Westerton Park Ground Gas Monitoring

  • Responsible Officer:

    Alan Bauer, Executive Officer - Assets & Facilities

  • Publication:

    This Technical Note will be published on the Council’s website following circulation to Members. Its contents may be disclosed or shared outwith the Council.

Section

  1. The purpose of this technical note is to update members on pre-construction site investigations undertaken over the course of the Summer holidays at Westerton Park and to provide clarification on the continuing presence of ground gas monitoring, which was omitted from the previous Technical Note.
     
  2. Surveys successfully completed to date include Ecology, Topographical, Ground Penetration, Trial Pit and Bore Holes to establish ground conditions, non-intrusive archaeology and CCTV drainage.
     
  3. During the course of the site investigations, heras fencing was erected around the site and access temporarily restricted to the general public.  Fencing has since been removed and the park re-opened for public access in full. 
     
  4. Initial reinstatement has been undertaken to those areas of the park which were subject to small areas of excavation via renewed topsoil and seeding and these will be monitored over the course of the coming weeks to ensure they establish in full.
     
  5. In addition to establishing the composition of the below ground level conditions at the park, 6no.small diameter ground gas monitoring holes have been left in-situ.  These are capped and flush to the ground and located in areas outwith the vicinity of the football pitch.  The purpose of these is to allow the project engineer to visit on a regular basis and check for the presence of any naturally occurring below ground gas which if present, would influence the future design of works taking place in the future.  The monitoring of below ground gas levels is standard practice as part of the usual suite of site investigations instructed at this stage of a feasibility process.
     
  6. The monitoring points will be left in-situ until end October 2023 to allow for sufficient data to be obtained on the below ground conditions, following which they will be removed and the ground reinstated in full.