Ovals saved

I believe couch (pronouced cooch) grass is the bane of gardeners and spreads like widfire and is very very hard to get rid of.

couch is good – I lie on mine and watch the cricket and drink beer

I have trouble sometimes keeping up with the various things RA stands opposed to… remind me again what we have against couch?

This is far better than the original situation – the email from ACT Grounds in December went

“Budget implications
Overall approximately $2.3 million has been cut from sport. In regards to the implications on grounds/fields, repairs and maintenance will need to be looked at on a case by case basis.
Perhaps the decision which may have the biggest impact on sport is that the government has agreed to reduce the amount of permanent diesel marking on grounds. They will still be doing the following:
Athletics fields (Banks, Calwell 2, Kambah 3, Chapman, Cook, Dickson, Charnwood 1 and Amaroo.
All Australian Rules fields boundary lines
All enclosed grounds will continue to receive the first mark of the season in white paint as has occurred in the past.
All sideline try/goal line corners will be marked to a length of 1 metre.
Whilst this is something we have been pushing for a long time, the decision is not entirely in our favour as any further marking to what has been outlined above will be done by sports, effective immediately. Recreation Services has put together a paper which outlines the guidelines for marking and that is attached.
Water Restrictions
Level 3 water restrictions began on 16 December which means an extra 10% water savings on top of Level 2. For sport this means reducing water to another 25 hectares of grounds. The government will continue to try and water Nicholls, Jerrabomberra and Page ovals. However, the following ovals will close – Pearce, South Curtin, Duffy, Downer, Hall Showgrounds, the Mint and Kaleen North. Please be ware of these grounds as the closing may affect your sport.
All of this information is perhaps not a welcome Christmas gift or message, but something that we thought you should be informed about. We will be discussing the implications of these decisions with sports in the New Year.”

Its a shame that many of the ovals are now so far past it that they won’t be safe for kiddies winter sports, or even their current summer ones.

Once the water restrictions end, whenever that it, it will cost a fortune to bring those ovals back to anywhere near what they were….but maybe that’s the plan, don’t bring them back

It will soon be infested with D9T’s (See Wikipedia)

I wonder what will happen to Chifley oval? It was being looked after by Melrose Primary School (now closed).