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The cost of basic repairs to the running track at St Columbs Park would be in excess of £30,000, a Derry City and Strabane District Council official has disclosed.
In recent years the track has been affected by pools of water following heavy rain.
Head of Community and Leisure, Barry O’Hagan said: “Members would be aware that I brought a paper looking at this. We talked about how it would be a long term capital project to make a real difference but we would try some remedial works and we had a budget set aside of £8,500.
“We have worked with our colleagues in Property and have gone to tender and the cheapest quote we got in was between £32,000 and £34,000 for that work so unfortunately we don’t have that budget.
“The price of that doesn’t even include drainage or a properly engineered and designed scheme; it’s simply scraping the top layer of the track off and replacing it with stone.
“Apparently it’s the price of the stone that’s come back extremely expensive so it’s becoming more and more like a capital project in terms of making any sort of difference. So it’s something that will have to be brought up at the Capital Working group with a paper to get it on a list in terms of how we take this project forward.”
It has been agreed that council officials will seek out a long term solution to the problem.
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