Mine shaft opens up on Creswick soccer pitch


Mine shaft opens up on Creswick soccer pitch

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Mine shaft opens up on Creswick soccer pitch

BY RACHEL AFFLICK
27 Jul, 2010 12:56 PM

A MINE shaft has opened up on a soccer pitch at Creswick's Doug Lindsay Reserve during an under 15s training session and just metres from the site where the new $3.1 million multipurpose sports community facility is being constructed.

Creswick Soccer club secretary Emma Paulding said a mine hole opened up on Thursday, July 15 in the corner of the pitch while the under 15s were training.

No one was injured and the hole was filled. Although Creswick games were cancelled or moved to other grounds after the incident, Hepburn Shire CEO Kaylene Conrick said geo-technical testing completed on the site as part of the Doug Lindsay project had not raised any issues.

``A small depression measuring just over half a metre in diameter and around 15 centimetres deep was repacked and filled on a soccer field at the Doug Lindsay Recreation Reserve recently,'' Ms Conrick said. ``This is similar to some other minor soil movement that we have seen from

time to time in the north eastern part of the reserve.

``State records show only some surface workings relating to mining activity in this area.

Routine compaction testing will also be performed on the foundations as building continues.''

Juniors games are expected to restart at Creswick this weekend, with seniors forced to travel to Ballarat due to the poor condition of the larger pitch.

The incident came as a double blow to soccer clubs in the Hepburn Shire, who have been unable to play at the Dean Oval due to recent vandalism caused by people driving their cars onto the pitch and performing burn-outs.

``Dean is shut down so they moved Daylesford to our pitch,'' Ms Paulding said.

```They've joined forces with us and now we've had a hole form in our pitch.

``There's not a single playable soccer pitch in the Hepburn Shire.''

She said new soccer grounds had been left out of the budget of the new Doug Lindsay multipurpose facility, even though the soccer club has already received a grant of $10,000 from the Football Federation of Victoria to put towards an upgrade.

``We've got over 60 children who play there regularly,'' she said.

``We only need another $16,000 to redo our grounds.''

http://www.hepburnadvocate.com.au/news/local/news/general/mine-shaft-opens-up-on-creswick-soccer-pitch/1896557.aspx

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