Out dog walking yesterday and it was good to see the work to improve the drainage on the coastal pathway underway. This is on the section of the raised pathway which lies to the west of Dundee Sailing Club's Grassy Beach Centre beneath Ravenscraig Gardens. At the end of July, I had reported to the Council that:
'there was a short but very slippery stretch of green slime stretching across the path just beneath Ravenscraig Gardens..... Water is usually oozing out of a cleft in the wall beneath the railway line at this point. The unusually high levels of rainfall in June and July have presumably led to a greater volume of water running over the path. This in turn has created the conditions for a more extensive area of green fungal slime. This has created very slippery under foot conditions which for an unsuspecting person might lead to a serious slip or fall.'
In early August, the Council's Environment Department, arranged for a thorough cleaning of the path to remove the slime. Feedback from walkers, joggers and cyclists has been very positive. Now the Council is helpfully undertaking the work that should mean there is a longer term solution. In the photo you can see that they are making provision for a drainage channel to take the water away preventing it spreading out across the path.
