Drainage works begin

BMCC has begun work on the very wet lawns above the swimming pool. It will look a mess for a little while, but be worth it in long-run.  

Thanks to Daniel Long, BMCC Program Leader, Operations for organising work. He notes "Whilst doing the works we encountered a phenomenal amount of groundwater and in order to try and drain the water into an open channel have created a series of trenches.  We intend to run drainage lines in these trenches before backfilling with a suitable material."

Memorial Park - NSW Office of Environment & Heritage

Historical significance of Blackheath Memorial Park is documented on the NSW Office of Environment & Heritage database.

The database Statement of Significance is:
"Blackheath Memorial Park has a high degree of historic, social and aesthetic value and has been an important site in the development of the Blackheath township since the late 1860s. It has supported dams, essential in the establishment of the railway through the township, has been a golf course and since the early 1920s has provided the largest, most central and best designed reserve grounds for the local community."

Bh023 : Memorial Park listing
Bh184 : Blackheath Memorial Park War Memorial Steps listing
Bh185 : Blackheath Memorial Park Gates listing
Bh186 : Blackheath Memorial Park Pool Pavilion listing

Blue Mountains Have Your Say > Street Tree Planting

Blue Mountains Have Your Say > Street Tree Planting

Blackheath Memorial Park Plan of Management (PoM)

The Blackheath Memorial Park Plan of Management (PoM) is available online.

This PoM was adopted by Blue Mountains City Council in December 2009.

A PDF version is available - it is a 5MB+ file / 90 page document - & this link is direct to the download - so do consider your bandwidth ahead of clicking link :
http://www.bmcc.nsw.gov.au/download.cfm?f=B98FD6CB-423B-CE58-A11AB2399CDA6D6A


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80 YEARS YOUNG

Blackheathens will have been enjoying a swim BLACKHEATH POOL for 80 YEARS as the 2009/10 season opens!

"In 1929 The Citizen’s Committee was formed and carried out considerable amount of work by voluntary labour to convert the old upper dam into a swimming pool. Pool ready for use in the summer of 1929/30. As soon as work finished on the conversion of the old railway dam into a swimming pool a group of local residents established a swimming club. Theclub existed for nearly 50 years and conducted competitive swimming, water ballets and other types of aquatic events in the pool." excerpted from BMCC's Blackheath Memorial Park Draft Plan of Management July 2009 p.68