With junior soccer in Blayney cancelled for 2020, and senior soccer still to be decided on, work is now well under way at Napier Oval to build two full-sized soccer fields, and also the putting in place of a synthetic cricket pitch.
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4,200 cubic metres of topsoil have been scalped off the site and stored around the perimeter of the oval and earth-moving equipment is diligently cutting away at the three metre cross fall.
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With approximately 2.5 kilometres of irrigation piping to be laid, 560 metres of cabling and 82 individual sprinklers to put in place, the $531,000 project is essentially a completely new ground.
Funded through the state government's Stronger Country Communities Program and the NSW ICC T20 World Cup Cricket Legacy Fund, the grounds should be finished by September, with cricket the first beneficiary.
For Blayney Junior Soccer representative Andrew Oldham, the new ground will have one big advantage.
"It will be so much easier because we'll be able to train and play all in the one location," he said.
Mark Logan
Started working in newspapers in the 1990's in the darkroom of the Pastoral Times in Deniliquin before moving to Millthorpe in 2003. Soon after arriving I started as a photographer at the CWD. Now a journalist at the Blayney Chronicle.
Started working in newspapers in the 1990's in the darkroom of the Pastoral Times in Deniliquin before moving to Millthorpe in 2003. Soon after arriving I started as a photographer at the CWD. Now a journalist at the Blayney Chronicle.
