8/10/19 2 trips in one day!

AM

Estelle Sandford, Nick Gymer

1hr

Andrew Atkinson was going to survey the stuff that isn’t on the current survey, but had distoX problems, so cancelled today. I had arranged to show Nick and it was beneficial to pump too probably, so went down anyway. Showed Nick around the top stuff, before heading down to the end to check. End was very wet and the water over the grill was flowing into the end and it was at that height. Set the pump up and going whilst Nick went and looked at the upper series and then we hung around until it had pumped enough to save time tonight. Also took a chunk out of the dam as it seems pointless having it with it filling up and overflowing and means only having to pump one place if we can move the dam enough. It appears to be a rock step though. Once drained headed out and home

PM

Estelle Sandford, James Begley, Mike Moxon, Stu Lindsay, Dave Walker, Chris Duberry, Nick Hawkes

2hrs

Pump was reactivated on arrival to clear the puddle area above the dig as much as anything. Chris went in to dig first, followed by Nick and then Stu had a dig – first time since his operation he had been to the end and he was surprised by how much progress we’d made. We are down to 18 buckets now, but Stu did an extra 10, helped by Estelle removing some of the remainder of the dammed bit so now the top puddle mostly drains into the dig meaning one pump location.

No digging planned for next week as a too many people are unavailable and it’s unviable with the numbers left, but could do with a couple of people planning to head over at some point to pump it so we keep on top of it as it is needing about ½ hour per week with all the rain we are having. Also on digging nights, be good if 1-2 can be there ½ hour early to get it going and maximise digging time. Jon had provided new skip for the bottom run and we have a spare for that too, the top one needs someone to take a knife down to trim the back off as it’s very hard to load at the moment.