Education / Civil · School Infrastructure NSW

AN OVAL THAT FINALLY DRAINS

The brief

Meadowbank Public School's oval had become a liability: persistent waterlogging, erosion eating the surface, and weeks each term when the space was unusable. The school needed a permanent drainage solution delivered around a live primary campus.

What we did

Installation of a comprehensive stormwater and subsoil drainage system: a grid of subsoil lines feeding collector pipes and new pits, connected to upgraded stormwater infrastructure; regrading to designed falls; and full surface reinstatement including new concrete perimeter pathways. The site ran as a fenced, separated work zone with deliveries and excavation programmed around school hours.

The outcome

Surface water now has somewhere to go. The oval drains instead of ponding, the erosion cycle is broken, and maintenance risk drops — durable infrastructure under fresh turf the school never has to think about again. Fully returfed and back in play.

“Under that grass is a drainage grid that means Meadowbank's students never lose their oval to rain again.”
ClientSchool Infrastructure NSW
LocationMeadowbank, Sydney NSW
ContractCAN-SINSW-25-30111
ServicesStormwater & Civil Works

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Before and after

An oval that finally drains — Before — waterlogged
Before — waterlogged
An oval that finally drains — During — drainage grid
During — drainage grid
An oval that finally drains — During — subsoil drainage
During — subsoil drainage
An oval that finally drains — During — returfing
During — returfing
An oval that finally drains — After — finished oval
After — finished oval
An oval that finally drains — After — new pathways
After — new pathways
An oval that finally drains — Before
Before
An oval that finally drains — After
After
An oval that finally drains — Before
Before
An oval that finally drains — After
After
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