Our pitch

[Reverend Lovejoy]

2 hours ago, dblair said:

Not sure covering a localised area would solve it mate. It seems that all the pitch drains lead to the at corner before “leaving” dens into the main waterway/drainage system. 
 

If rumours are to be believed the problem is further down dens road where the problem lies, which doesn’t allow water away quick enough and it backs up all the way. Hard to imagine that if that’s the case that something hasn’t been done about by now as it seems to have been an issue for around 3 years now. 

There's more demand from the new housing and too much stress on an outdated/inadequate drainage system apparently. As you say covering an area won't do anything to assist the water in draining away. 

[Reverend Lovejoy]

1 hour ago, Wattie Rojas said:

Could we not just cover the corner bit with a tarp then tip the water off the end of the pitch?

In a word no. What the Robertson's were doing on Saturday, whilst not ideal, is the best we can do with the equipment and manpower we have and with minimal cost. There's multiple reasons why covering it with a tarp wouldn't work.

[Wattie Rojas]

1 hour ago, Reverend Lovejoy said:

In a word no. What the Robertson's were doing on Saturday, whilst not ideal, is the best we can do with the equipment and manpower we have and with minimal cost. There's multiple reasons why covering it with a tarp wouldn't work.

What are they mate? 

[Prince Buster]

18 minutes ago, Wattie Rojas said:

What are they mate? 

Tarp doesn't collect or drain water. I you laid a tarp to collect water you'd need to turn up the edges to contain it - if you do that it'll be too heavy to move and you'd likely just spill all the water out if you did move it. If you don't turn up the edges the water runs right off and would gather under it, negating it's use entirely.

You could of course fashion a funnel / river type effect to divert the water away from the pitch - but where would you divert it to if the drains are gubbed?

The tarp would need to be one solid piece - it would be huge and difficult to handle. If you used multiple tarps overlapping each other you'd need to seal the joints somehow or the water would just run off the various pieces and gather underneath.

You couldn't use it during a game, on Saturday the rain fell during the game and would have gathered anyway.

There will be other reasons that I can't think of right now.

Even the big dome we used to have wouldn't help because the water has to go somewhere and as it stands it just can't.

[Reverend Lovejoy]

9 minutes ago, Wattie Rojas said:

What are they mate? 

The water was on the pitch for a start mate so how do we get tarps on the pitch in game?.

Have you ever tried emptying the water that's left in a kids paddling pool that hasn't drained away?. The water that's left is heavy as fck to tip out and goes everywhere bar where you want it to go.

Unless the tarp covers a much larger area than you're trying to protect then water will inevitably seep under, water will always find a level and a way of getting under the tarp.

The water on Saturday was water that'd backed up from a drainage system that couldn't cope with the deluge further down the line. You've then got run off from a pitch that's on a slope. At the recent Scotland game their ground staff did exactly the same as ours but without the same issues and with greater manpower. 

[Double Blue]

6 minutes ago, Reverend Lovejoy said:

At the recent Scotland game their ground staff did exactly the same as ours but without the same issues and with greater manpower. 

The SFA groundsmen also took longer to remove the water than ours did if I recall correctly. 

[Reverend Lovejoy]

1 hour ago, Double Blue said:

The SFA groundsmen also took longer to remove the water than ours did if I recall correctly. 

They were dealing with a whole pitch though.

[Wattie Rojas]

If the main issue is that one corner then we could fashion some sort of funnel to run the water onto the trackside. It surely can't be that difficult. 

[eyeothedug]

4 hours ago, Billy Campbell's Ghost said:

Who is responsible for drains? Cooncil? Scottish Water or Sepa?

Council

[Prince Buster]

12 minutes ago, Wattie Rojas said:

If the main issue is that one corner then we could fashion some sort of funnel to run the water onto the trackside. It surely can't be that difficult. 

You're at it

[Smokiedee]

Can we not pump it into a large tank then pump it out when the drains can cope ?

There's plenty of room down where the old toilet block used to be to site a tank.

[Attilio]

53 minutes ago, eyeothedug said:

Council

Do you want to have another go?