24 October 2006

Lake Dickson!

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Quietly, and with minimal expenditure, the Stanhope Government has given Canberra another lake, this time in Dickson.

What a lesser Government would achieve through hard work, dollars spent, and a media flourish our superior Government has managed through poor maintenance and neglect.

I realise it’s in a tricky location. Off in the uncharted wilds right next to Northbourne Avenue and next to an ambulance station one can sympathise with Urban Service’s difficulties in getting to the site.

By way of consolation, at least the ducks seem to like it.

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Cycled past this morning and it was cleared.

“That’s not a trolley.
It’s an ingenious fish trap so locals can catch carp. “

Its not a carp trap, it’s a lure collector. The basic principle is you chuck it in the drink, fishermen snag up on it, then a week later you haul it out and its covered with lures.

If you want carp, head down to the turd pond @ sundown and fly fish with a small brown nymph. The carp are starting to surface feed on tiny insects. There’s some metre+ mongrels in there. Better fight than those manky trout things.

Doesn’t the Dickson noodle house get some of its produce from there?

James-T-Kirk1:08 pm 25 Oct 06

Ahhh, Isn’t this lake close to the ‘special’ traffic lights for the blind recumbent riders, that suggests that they shaould also stop… (One pedestrian and 1 bike stop light)

In any case, to remove this eyesore, 20l of petrol, and 1 match, and the govt will deal with the problem for us 🙂

…and where are all the pond dwellers looking to protect this fragile environ?

I wonder how many dead junkies there are at the bottom of all that mess?

Personally, I blame the Police for this state of affairs – but only because it seems to be that it’s fashionable to blame the Police for everything in Canberra!

Absent Diane9:50 am 25 Oct 06

as opposed to dead proof of life?

hehe – yup.

Absent Diane9:49 am 25 Oct 06

ahh. I always wanted to go prawning in lake dickson

lets hope roland grns isnt reading this or we’ll see a camera crew and bob brown down there…

Look on the bright side. At least one of those seedy cafes in Dickson hasn’t started selling it as coffee.

I wonder if the ACT Parks can see this from there fortress over the road of the ABC. I am sure that atl east a good third of them would drive past this at least twice a day.

as opposed to dead proof of life?

Absent Diane9:22 am 25 Oct 06

that trolley is living proof of life.

I warned you! … Next AD will be recommending that it never be drained because it will upset the natural ecosystem and how it supports of the introduced endangered species that have evolved over months of evolution.

Absent Diane8:17 am 25 Oct 06

i think it looks beautiful.

Woody Mann-Caruso8:14 am 25 Oct 06

We could seed it with carp to feed the homeless.

Could we waterski on it?

shhhhhh…. Too much attention and the Greens may attempt to gazette it as a natural heritage site

Wouldn’t surprise me … I heard that Corkhills (sp?) had the contract to clean the big trap on Sullivans Creek at Barry Drive and it was worth $120k for four clean-outs annually – to be fair though thats a big job with excavators and shit.

Al, I’ve been walking past that trap on and off for a lot of years and i can tell you it’s never been that clogged up.

I suspect skimping on the cleaning contract.

JB you’re looking at a Gross Pollutant Trap or GPT – seems to be working just fine. I understand that the Govt. lets a contract for these to be cleaned on a regular (2-4 times a year) basis.

I would suggest that of greater concern is the ammount of water trapped behind the dam of crap in there – when was the last time we had serious rain? A couple of drops last week wouldn’t create that sort of run-off … no what we see there is run-off from over watered gardens and cross over from old sewage pipes layed in the same trenches as old stormwater pipes – watch for the odd ‘bondi cigar’ and don’t eat the ducks (no matter how succulent the lttle ones seem…)

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