The Maintenance

The area under consideration was not fitted out with any automatic
irrigation, nor was there the opportunity of retrofitting above ground
lines.

Maintenance therefore depended on hand watering.

This in turn was dependent on the number and frequency of faucets.

Initially we were given specifications that allowed for a faucet every sixty
metres. The water delivery drawings indicated that few, if any plants would
be further than thirty metres from a faucet.

Apparently, due to an oversight in the original supply specification, the
water delivery system did not match the plans and in some areas, such as
orange there were only six faucets to cover the entire area. In the Heritage
area the faucets that were installed were turned off and we were required to
rely on the original water faucets which were over three hundred metres
away.

Here it was a case of back to buckets. For the rest we had specially fitted
fifty metre flat hoses made up for the job.

The complexity of water delivery through the site caused a major overrun in
watering estimates from forty-five (45) units per hour to twenty (20) units.
Unfortunately we were unsuccessful in convincing the client that this
constituted a valid variation.

Then, of course, nature played her hand. Sydney's Lord Mayor, Frank Sartor,
might well gloat over the fact that the only rain that fell in the
twenty-six (26) days prior and through the Olympics fell on the night the
Stadium was not in use. For us, however, it proved to be burdensome in the
extreme.

The drought combined with record temperatures and late August westerlys
requiring Enviro Doctor to have no less than three (3) hoses running
simultaneously for several days consecutively simply to keep the trees
alive.

It was so dry that the in-ground trees were shedding foliage. Not a good
sign in spring.

Nevertheless we soldiered on and the display at the end of this private
Olympic event looked even better than it did on day one.

It was in every respect a marathon event and certainly proved to be record
breaking in terms of Enviro Doctor's personal best.

If experience counts for anything Enviro Doctor has what it takes.