Scudley - 15-3-2012 at 05:26 AM
They have pulled the plug, If it ever stops raining, it should be dry in a couple of weeks.
S
hiaguy - 15-3-2012 at 05:34 AM
Pulled the plug?
I haven't seen it in a decade, but do they flood the field?
Bladerunner - 15-3-2012 at 06:38 AM
GREAT NEWS !
Let our little " dry lake " bring us the best season ever ! Should be ready just in time for return from NABX .
:wee:
BeamerBob - 15-3-2012 at 07:30 AM
Who is "they" and what is the plug? I thought it was just a field beside the beach?
markite - 15-3-2012 at 08:49 AM
when you really zoom in on Garry Point on google you can understand why it holds water once in a while
BeamerBob - 15-3-2012 at 11:15 AM
Nice work Mark! I see it is a low spot. Is water artificially held there for some reason and thus a "plug" is pulled to start the draining drying
process?
markite - 15-3-2012 at 11:47 AM
It's a bit misleading even with the first photo that bowl isn't there, I think it's probably just a lot of compacted backfill on that land where it
holds surface water after winter until a good run of weather - but the locals will know better.
Scudley - 15-3-2012 at 11:55 AM
I believe they let the field flood with rainwater in the hopes that it might freeze thick enough to skate on. I don't think it happened this year. At
least there doesn't seem to be the collection of hockey nets, etc, that were left last year.
If there is not enough collected rain water they will add more from the fire hydrants. Even with the plug pulled, actually valve opened, rain water
will still collect in the lowest spot for a day or two during the summer after a heavy rain.
As it dries, the winter's collection of goose #@%$#!e, now a layer of slime covering the once flooded areas, will slowly dry as well. Until it does,
it will be pretty sloppy stinky slime. It does make for great sliding turns, but you want a change of clothes and something to cover your mouth,
yeech.
All of the Lulu Island is a low spot. It is really a just swamp where the Fraser meets the Sea. I don't think there is land in Richmond over 10'
feet above sea level that was not man made.
S
hiaguy - 15-3-2012 at 06:06 PM
Great work Mark! I think the "Hot" handle is what used to catch my lines and crash my stunt deltas 
tdmc96 - 15-3-2012 at 09:49 PM
Thats good to here...seems like its been raining every weekend since last October.
See you guys soon!
Ken (K3)
stockton - 15-3-2012 at 10:16 PM
Great news... Can't wait.
Bladerunner - 16-3-2012 at 06:41 AM
Mark has explained it pretty well.
GP is on a delta of seeded sand at the mouth of the Fraser river. We are displaced for 6 + months a year while they allow the middle of our field
flood. All for the hope of a few freezing days of skating.
I believe that we would use the field all year round and possibly deter the geese from pooping up the place. The soup that forms can't be good for the
kids ? But then again we all played in gray water as kids. Maybe their systems need the exposure?
The one good thing about it is the sand is hard for a while and great for Coyotes. Then the poop breaks down. :Ange09: