From footpath to modern road system; the paving of Waveny Park
November 17, 2008 by admin
In June I went for a walk in Waveny Park only to find heavy construction equipment and massive destruction of the woods along the footpath.
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In September, I wrote about the beautiful fields they demolished to stockpile asphalt and park landscaping machines.
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I wondered why they cut new the paths wide enough for a truck and why they were stockpiling asphalt debris and large concrete drainage supplies. I wondered why they were using heavy earth moving equipment along what’s always been a footpath through Nature.
November 1st 2008 I took pictures of the paving of our woods. No wonder they’ve been storing crude oil resins where deer used to live, no wonder they killed everything on both sides of our trail in a murderous swath through the park.
No wonder they crushed the little stream that ran along the path. They have made a road complete with drainage.
Effective drainage is critical to the stability and longevity of any road. Road ditches lining the asphalt installation allow road run-off to percolate below grade and the new culverts allow traveling water to run below our new roads through the woods.
What was once a Nature trail is now a grass-lined asphalt road system. Bravo!
From my perspective this is a shameful act and an outrageous destruction of Natural habitat that will have a lasting negative impact on our Park’s ecology. My favorite place in the world is being turned into urban sprawl. This is a real bastardization of our privilege to use this land as our park.
