I was asked to find out about any work being undertaken to address the flooding in the Bourtree Park between Portlethen swimming pool and Fishermoss primary school. Today I received a reply from council officers. Here is what I was told:
“Apologies for the delay responding to your request in relation to the flooding in Bourtree Park. As you are aware, Robertson Facilities Management undertook some works within the park in May of this year adding two field drains to the path. It appears that these works were not successful in dealing with the flooding issue and I received further complaints around the end of November. As a result I raised the issue further with RFM and the works detailed below have now been undertaken to deal with the flooding issues:
“FM arranged for a specialised contractor to attend site on Tuesday 1 December to investigate the drainage problems. The following works have now been undertaken:
“Contractors have been on site and dug channels at the side of paths and installed land drains wrapped with membrane and filled with drainage gravel that run into purpose built mini soak-aways.
“Hopefully this will resolve the drainage issues but I will ask RFM to monitor this over the coming weeks.”