"Paul Terry" wrote in message

In message , Recliner
writes

Am I right in thinking that spoil from the HS1
tunnel was used to raise this ground level over the Olympic site?

I don't think so. Most of the tunnel boring was done during the course
of 2003, long before the Olympic bid.

Much of the material used for levelling the Olympic Park came from the
excavation needed for the main stadium, the "ground level" of which
is 9 metres below the surrounding ground level.

Yes, I know that the Olympic stadium arena is sunken, but would that
provide enough material to raise the far larger Olympic park area that
surrounds it?

Yes, I know that the Olympic stadium arena is sunken, but would that
provide enough material to raise the far larger Olympic park area that
surrounds it?

ISTM the issue is a bit more complex than that as the area was not flat
to start with. There is a map showing the contours at
http://planning.london2012.com/publi...=JD3JF2SZL0000
but I'm not up to computing if it's enough (or more than enough) for the
final contours. Living near the site I can say they have had some pretty
big temporary hills as they moved stuff around.
--
Robin
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"Robin" wrote in message

Yes, I know that the Olympic stadium arena is sunken, but would that
provide enough material to raise the far larger Olympic park area
that surrounds it?

ISTM the issue is a bit more complex than that as the area was not
flat to start with. There is a map showing the contours at
http://planning.london2012.com/publi...=JD3JF2SZL0000
but I'm not up to computing if it's enough (or more than enough) for
the final contours. Living near the site I can say they have had some
pretty big temporary hills as they moved stuff around.

Yes, I've noticed those large 'temporary hills' on my infrequent visits
and wondered if they were to be made permanent, only to notice they'd
disappeared on my next visit.

On this visit, I was surprised just how much construction still seemed
to be going on around the park, given that the venues are all supposed
to be more or less complete. Even the temporary warm-up track on top of
the DBS sidings seems to be almost done (it was still a concrete plant
when I last walked along the Greenway). I assume that some underground
services have to be laid (including the new water main) and the area
landscaped after the major buildings are complete.

On this visit, I was surprised just how much construction still seemed
to be going on around the park, given that the venues are all supposed
to be more or less complete. Even the temporary warm-up track on top
of the DBS sidings seems to be almost done (it was still a concrete
plant when I last walked along the Greenway). I assume that some
underground services have to be laid (including the new water main)
and the area landscaped after the major buildings are complete.

Oh they have an awful lot of other people's money to spend yet - eg on
the coach park, that wonderful bit of "legacy" which means they tarmac
over several playing fields on Hackney Marshes and then remove it all to
reinstate the playing fields.
--
Robin
PM may be sent to rbw0{at}hotmail{dot}com

"Robin" wrote:

On this visit, I was surprised just how much construction still seemed
to be going on around the park, given that the venues are all supposed
to be more or less complete. Even the temporary warm-up track on top
of the DBS sidings seems to be almost done (it was still a concrete
plant when I last walked along the Greenway). I assume that some
underground services have to be laid (including the new water main)
and the area landscaped after the major buildings are complete.

Oh they have an awful lot of other people's money to spend yet - eg on the
coach park, that wonderful bit of "legacy" which means they tarmac over
several playing fields on Hackney Marshes and then remove it all to
reinstate the playing fields.

I was talking to a Hackney Marshes user recently - they weren't all that
fussed about this, as the thinking was that the playing fields in question
would end up with rather better drainage after reinstatement than they have
now. (Worth noting that it's by no means all the playing fields either.)