I'm a villa fan and what a goal from Duran I do hope you stay up and loved watching everton back in the 80s and especially moving in to that stunning new stadium next season good luck
Nick, well done and thanks for getting in amongst the rain and the quick turnaround of the editing and release. PoI's: 1) @ 1:24 mins, we can see that they have been clearing up the ground in the access way of the southernmost Tower Gate, so we can expect to see the installation of bollards, setts and stones in the accessway and along the inside of Regent Road wall. According to the plans there might be some extension of the heritage rail tracks at the SE corner of the site too. 2) @ 1:51 mins, we can see that LoR have installed a Retaining Wall that extends from the very NE corner of the Brick facade towards the NW corner of the Pump House, which divides the level of the Away Fans walk route and the Vehicular Access route, from the lower and sloping northern end of the East Plaza, which leads to the northern East Stand entrances for Home GA Fans that will be going to their seats in the Lower Tier of the North Stand (go back to the studio video from last year to see the fans' routes for which I provided screenshots and drawings). 3) @ 3:59 mins, it's striking how pronounced the control or inspection panels appear on the southern wall of the West Stand Mansard Roof (they're just under vertical line of the edge of the barrel-cladding). 4) @ 4:23 mins, we can see 4 very chunky black posts, or bars, currently laid horizontally on the West Quay. I don't know what they are or where they will be located. "Watch that space" (As a footnote, I have been trying to spot where they are storing the paneling that will fitted to both ends of the Viewing Gallery but I guess they're still off-site or located on the SW Quayside of Nelson Dock). 5) @ 4:40 mins and afterwards, we can see that they have the inspection pits, and access to the conduits within the northern Isolation Bridge, open currently, so there is no traffic going across the northern Isolation Bridge. With the contractors busy on the front of the West Concourse, the material dug out of the water channel dam is probably being taken out at the SW corner to the Nelson Dock Quaysides and out via the temporary car park. 6) @ 8:57 mins, we can see 'black' barriers being fitted as well as the steel frames in the Executive Boxes area. It might be interesting to take a closer look. 7) @ 9:05 mins, we can see that they have installed the companions' seats at the NE corner for the Away Fans' Accessibility Area.
Great flyaround as ever. Thank you. The team will need to look at keeping possession at rates much higher than we are. It's what a professional team is about. The manager says its at the margins. I am not sure what this means and just what is the message being conveyed. You loose possession, you fight to take repossession and help you teammates do this. What is the difficulty in not understanding this? Learn to trust and depend on teammates and grow to shine again. Come on EVERTON - Shine please.
Nick, I'm making this entry for everyone's benefit so that you can make it clear on your midweek video, or may be a studio update, to stop the confusion or criticism of LoR, claiming they've made a mistake or that something has gone wrong with regard to the water channel. So many people jump to the conclusions that because it involves EFC, even indirectly, that it must be a mistake, an error or wrong decision as that "would be so Everton". It also means I can copy and paste the following points, or just refer to it, for all those that keep making comments on this observation and deducing incorrect conclusions. It's an unavoidably long explanation. 1) The Water Channel is retained for at least 2 reasons: a) it addresses a very real, practical need by The Environmental Agency and their mandate for water management, with minimal additional engineering and cost-impacted actions and b) the Heritage Stakeholders required the connection of the docks north from the centre to be 'continuous' for the preservation of their strategy. 2) As everyone should know from their basic school days' Geography with regard to the "Water Cycle", water rises from the sea then drops on land as rain. The rain continues to follow the rules of gravity, so we get streams and rivers that make their way to the sea. 3) The collective northern Liverpool Docks are fed by two sources: a) freshwater that comes from streams that feed the canals, with those canals feeding into Nelson Dock eventually and b) by the occasional inflow of minimal amounts of saline water (relative the volume of the northern docks) from the estuary, at higher tides, IF the only lock(s) still functioning as part of the Liverpool Freeport, towards the northern end of the whole dock area, open to let a large vessel come in or go out. 4) Sandon Half-Tide Dock, to the north of BMD, is connected to Liverpool Freeport and is saline water. As it's fairly undisturbed water, with only the tugs really using it as a berth, the water in Sandon retains a fairly consistent blue-green water colour. 5) Since the start of the BMD project, 2 things happened at the north and south ends of what is now the water channel, as opposed to the entrances to BMD of old: a) a change in the process at the southern Isolation Bridge and b) the creation of a dam at the northern end of the channel area, so that the whole of the channel area would be useful for the project. 6) At the southern end, the South Isolation Bridge was already in situ and had been for many years. It actually performs the role of a controlled dam and is the division between the freshwater in Nelson Dock and the saline water of BMD, Sandon Dock and beyond. 7) The southern Isolation Bridge contains 8 valves/sluices (you can see the man-holes for each at the south side of the southern Isolation Bridge) that will be controlled by the Environment Agency to regulate the quantity of water in Nelson Dock and the canal network, allowing more water to pass in the 'wet seasons' or after heavy rainfall, and closing the valves in particularly dry periods. The southern Isolation Bridge is a very, very important structure in maintaining ALL the docks water levels at a fairly consistent level without having to install, or resurrect, lots of complicated multlilocks and control points. 8) So, if the sluices were not going to be opened at all during the project it meant that they had to devise a temporary means for getting the water in Nelson Dock to Sandon Dock. LoR installed temporary pipes, pumps and sumps to draw water from a) Nelson Dock but also b) the underlying water-table at or below the bedrocks under the BMD water-channel area. For those that had been observant during the project you could clearly see the 3/4 'wells' that were drawing water out/up to a large Blue Tank located on the West Quay about where the excavator now sits and in line with the remaining northern end sandbar dam. The extracted water was being aerated before being discharged through a pipe that went down into the water of Sandon Dock just north of the current sandbar dam and just south of the NEW Northern Isolation Bridge. 9) It should be emphasised that the new northern Isolation Bridge has always been a literal bridge and NOT a dam, which is why there had to be a stone-based, weak-concrete, sand-topped temporary dam created just south of the northern Isolation Bridge. They used this dam as a roadway, if you recall, as the northern Isolation Bridge has not really been used extensively for vehicle access. One of the most important factors about the northern Isolation Bridge is that it has huge ducts travelling through it that carry all the Electrical mains cables from Blackstone Street through the site to the Substations in the DNOC, as well as subsidiary power connections and all the optic fibre cables that connect the DNOC and the whole stadium with the great wide world. 10) I doubt very much that people had realised just how much water LoR were pumping from the lower water-table and Nelson Dock. If you looked closely at the large blue-tank, now removed, it was a very significant flow. 11) It seems that quite a significant few observers thought the way of allowing water into the channel would be to remove the temporary dam, rather than the opposite method, with its much better safety, allowing safety checks, the use of natural forces, taking into account the laws of physics and the principles that Archimedes discovered millenia ago. 12) Breaching the dam first would have been disastrous because the forces would be totally uncontrollable. The pressure forces of the whole of the area of Liverpool Freeport would have pressed through the first small breach and ripped the dam apart taking most of the dam with it across the water channel. Most people SHOULD recall that from childhood when playing dams, moats and sandcastles on the beach. 13) The easier way to control it all, at a relatively slower pace, is, and was, merely to turn off the pumps and allow "nature" to take over, allowing the freshwater to migrate into the channel but also opening the valves and sluices in the southern Isolation Bridge a fraction. This then allowed the water in the channel to have built up to near the top of the dam. 14) Once the water level either side of the dam was about equal, then THAT was the moment for the excavator to dig a small breach channel at the eastern end of the sandbar dam to allow the equally-pressured distinct bodies of water to join up. All under control, no sudden, damaging rushes of water going anywhere. All smooth and entirely intentional. 15) As the pressures are now balanced either side of the temporary sandbar dam, so the excavator can calmly remove the remainder of the dam, which includes sand and also previously laid rocks. 16) Preservation of the southern Isolation Bridge in its entirety and the construction of the northern Isolation Bridge as a bridge and not as a dam, means that the original, pre-project status is maintained and does not require any re-engineering of the whole northern Liverpool Docks system. 17) With regard to the colour and content of the water in the water channel, it will mostly be blue-green, due to it being mainly saline but at times of high rainfall or the wet season, it may become temporarily brackish and a very slightly darker, bluer colour as more freshwater is allowed to pass into the channel. 18) There would be no point in providing a different base to the water channel, even though relatively shallow, as it will hold a small amount of fine particles and, being mostly saline, not really totally clear at any point, as is the case in Sandon Dock, which will be the predominant water content. Trying to make the water clear and illuminating it would not really achieve its aim against the prevailing natural limitations, bearing in mind all the absolutely necessary part it plays in the dock system.
Hi David. There is a lot of discussion on the colour of the water - should it be green etc. If one looks at Nicks very first video of the site before the work started, the water in this channel was green - the colour it is now. I am not sure why anyone thinks it should be different now
@@oneredmouse You are spot on and I am a little surprised that anyone was thinking otherwise. However, I do have to say that through the whole project there have been plenty of illogical and ignorant comments Mostly innocent and benign). Everyone has been able to see for months, or years, that the northern Isolation Bridge was a bridge, not a dam, so it's obvious that the water migration from Sandon Dock would prevail for the greenish colour of the water in the channel. It will only darken for very short periods IF really heavy rainfall means a) the valves/sluices in the southern Isolation Dock have to be opened a little more and b) a large swell of BMD groundwater exits the pipe about halfway along the Lower Promenade. But it will very quickly be diluted by the huge mass of saline water in Sandon and beyond.
Hi Nick, once again another great video on a Sunday. Please keep up this great work. At 7:38 as the drone comes round from the South Stand Roof to the East Stand Roof we get to see the Blue Marbled tiles and the camera really does show the water effect that was intended, hope you can show this again when it's dry to see if there is much difference.
Hiya Nick, I was in total shock when Everton let slip a 2-0 lead, I watched the first half of Everton and the second half of Liverpool, the board will be bloody annoyed what's happening, but I wish Everton all the luck in the world in the coming season, could you imagine if Newcastle relegate Everton, I don't think it'll happen, Eddie Howe is a Everton fan, the new ground is looking spot on, this is Choppy
Great coverage as always Nick, not sure if this has been asked but are the statues at Goodison (Dixie and the Holy trinity ones) being relocated to the New stadium site and if so where they being put?
I know what you're trying to say but I can't help pointing out that the DNOC and its contents haven't actually changed size! I think that would be a trick beyond LoR's clearly excellent capabilities. 😉🙃 I was going to add an entry earlier with the following: "PoI's: 1) @ 1:24 mins, we can see . . 2) @ 1:51 mins, we can see . . 3) @ 3:59 mins, we can see . . 4) @ 4:23 mins, we can see . . 5) @ 4:40 mins, we can see . . 6) @ 8:57 mins, we can see . . 7) @ 9:05 mins, we can see . . Stephen Linden will be filling in the blanks". But I've decided against that. It might have been funny only to a small audience.
Hi Nick, Hope you are ok! A random question I know but can you tell me where I can park my car around anfield as my son and I are travelling from Norwich to watch the reds play Bologna soon. Is the Stanley Park car park permit only or pay and display. We are staying in Knowsley. Any information you could give us would be hugely appreciated.
Great video Nick, KC did a late night video from Seaforth of the Queen Mary leaving, as it sailed past just the with just the work lights on it looked good, when the stadium is fully lit the waterfront will look superb.
Another top video mate, I’ve noticed numbers on top of the turnstiles on east side when you can have a close up please to see if I wasn’t seeing thins they were on north east corner
Hi Nick. Any idea why they allowed water in the channel when there was still a huge pile of sand to remove? Wondering if they are just going to leave it there or eventually move it ! Thanks
That ‘huge pile of sand’ is the dam that they’re excavating carefully. You can’t excavate a dam and keep the water out at the same time - the dam keeps the water away
Nick - im thinking that the plan was to remove most of the sand at the North end of the water channel, then to unplug the stoppers in the South end of the water channel, and to slowly fill the channel up, I'd guess that the Dam broke at the North end whilst digging, and that meant that the neighbouring dock at United Utilities was inevitably going to fill the water channel very quickly. There were big blue numbers above the east stand turnstiles on some other droners footage = 19 + 20. There are some blue marks on the United Utilities side of the North Stand, maybe areas that need repainting?
Another great video Nick Let’s not talk about yesterday Couple of questions 1) will the west terrace steps get finishing copings or the blue stones representing the water? They just look unfinished to me 2) will the water channel water be filtered/cleaned as it looks murky at the moment? 3) where will the tv camera positions be in the stadium? Cheers
1) Steps are finished - but they’ll be installing hand rails. 2) Water won’t be filtered. Once the dam is fully excavated, the water should settle and turbidity will reduce. But it won’t look like the Nelson Dock water because that’s fresh and the water channel is saline/brackish. 3) Main TV camera will be in the west stand. You can see the concrete TV camera platform just above the higher executive boxes, at the bottom of the west stand upper tier 8:10
The blue stones representing water are at the front of the steps and under the 3 x tunnels only, no coping stones. The water channel will settle but it is sea water with sand under it. The Media section is in the middle of the West Stand, there are other camera positions too, in the corners etc.
So far so good from Laing o’rourke on the stadium build but nov/dec they hand it over to Everton to finish it off and no doubt they’ll balls it up like everything else they balls up !
How exciting is this?! These videos provide me with some perspective after the recent losses. The club will move forward onto bigger and better things. This stadium should be the start of it all for us. A couple of questions if you have any knowledge as to their answers. First, is the roof going to be finished with a silver skin? It looks odd being different to the curved sides. Second, is there going to be some kind of cladding going up to hide the concrete underside of the terraces? Thanks for all of these videos! You are doing an amazing job.
Great video as usual. Nick. Well done for getting it done in the conditions. At 1:34 you can see numbers to gate entrances above some of the turnstiles. Do you know if there will be another layer on the concrete around the stadium behind the terracing? Also at 8:57 there are some form form of barriers below the corporate boxes. Would you know the reasons for these? And lastly also at 8:57 on the SW corner they have removed seats and added some sort of railings. Keep up the great work 👍🏾
Mr Drone, I could be wrong about this, of course, but I am convinced that there is a Service Road being constructed on the North Side and vehicles will not have to negotiate the narrow gap between the Pump Hose and the trees and have to travel in the narrow gap between the stadium wall and the support columns. But like I said, I could be wrong...
Mike: I know you to be an intelligent person, based on previous discussions and comments. I have to say that I am somewhat puzzled and 'miffed' that my explanations about the spatial dimensions and the access ways along the north perimeter have not been accepted. This issue is like trying to convince flat-earthers that the factual evidence implies they are not being rational. Recap: the distance between the Tactile Edge strip (the darker corrugated strip of flags that are in an unbroken arrow-straight line from near the entrance gateway, past the Pump House and under the overhang to the NW corner) and the Trees is more than 5m wide, and it's about 5m between the strip and the base of the posts under the overhang. That width of 5m would just about allow 2 cars to pass each other comfortably but not quite 2 lorries or coaches (but Security will not allow 2 such vehicles to need to be passing each other anyway). Lorries and coaches are 2.55m wide. The maths doesn't lie, it really doesn't. I urge you to consider the following incontrovertible fact: the gate barrier at the Security Hut is wide enough to accept ALL vehicles and it is intentionally the narrowest point the whole way along the north side. So, IF all vehicles can pass through that bottleneck, why do you think that they can't travel easily along the rest of the route, which is much wider? I am going to assume you think that at 2:07 mins, the row of 11 temporary posts, fencing and heavy-weight ballast blocks that hold them in place, on UU's land, is the start of a new permanent route. It isn't: it's a "safe island" next to the current temporary vehicular route for a) the machinery and contractors that have been building the shutters and filling them with concrete for the permanent fence base wall that runs along the north side of the row of trees (at this time in the video the base wall is hidden behind some additional mobile concrete crash barriers too) and b) for equipment that has been used to get materials safely offloaded and located for the work at the northern end of the East Plaza, without having to use the future permanent vehicular route adjacent to the Pump House, so that the granite setts remain 'pretty' for longer. It's why there is also still a gap between the stretches of the future north perimeter permanent base wall described. I send you my best regards and wishes.
Looks great now that the channel has water in it, looks like the cladding below the barrel sections is next to be done on the south stand. Also Nick, I’ve heard a rumour that season ticket holders won’t be able to choose their seat by going to the stadium, you have to do a virtual choice..shame that.
Greetings from Georgia, Nick watching today's fly-around it reminded me of a job I was on in Azerbaijan while working for BP our office entrance on site was very much like the stairway to the West Stand entrance but not as big. This facility had been in operation for some years without any problems until we had a safety review one day and HSE forced us to put handrails up these stairs. Do you know if this will be a requirement in this instance
The main TV camera will be in the west stand to avoid direct sunlight into the lens. You can see the concrete platform where the camera will be just above the higher executive boxes at the bottom of the west stand upper tier at 8:57
Everton might employ the Chelsea model and sell the ground back to themselves. Thereby raising £1bn to assist in buying a few players in January. In fact we might help Chelsea out further with their PSR by buying a few of their players.
Does anyone know what's going to happen to the Archibald Leitch criss-cross balcony fronts once Goodison Park gets demolished? (Even typing that sentence is emotionally difficult!)
With a fantastic stadium like this there is surely no way that Everton fans can think about relegation get behind the team and cheer them on to better things. C. F. C. 🏐🍀🇮🇪
I think we must go back to the raucus welcome at goodison.. bring the blue flairs out and welcome the blue bus on arrival to the ground .....COME ON YOU BLUES.......
Hi nick.. I asked EFC 3 years ago about Dixie's and the 3 graces.. I was told they will remain on goodison road. This is wrong. The statues are part of our History.. how will the younger ones ever learn of the immense part they played in our past.. as we say ..... IF you know ur history .. kev.66
The club want fans to stay in the stadium after the final whistle to enjoy the bars and restaurants. Crowd modelling has shown the 6 exits in the Regent Road wall are sufficient with very little delays for fans leaving
They’ll also be exits along the riverfront and further along regent road, towards the city. But as the other comment explains… Evertonians will enjoy a pie and a pint at the ground after the game. We have no urgency to get to the airport or the train station as we can walk home.
@@garybrereton7521 exits along the riverfront and further along Regent Road? Is this breaking news? I haven’t heard anything or seen anything that suggests that to be the case. What’s the source of this Gary?
@@davegerrard4960 my eyes… the sea wall runs from the pier head, with a minor deviation around the Isle of Man terminal to the dockers clock. That whole area is being renovated, do delusional kopites like yourself honestly believe that Liverpool council won’t provide access to the biggest entertainment venue in the city. As for Regent Road I’m talking about Nelson Dock and the other entrances further along, which adjoin Bramley-Moore.
Great video again Nick. I'm having one of my wouldn't-it-have-been-better-if moments. As good as the water channel looks, using the blue stones instead of the channel would have given us another type of fan zone, additional parking and usefulness. If the channel was to be a working waterway, I'd think differently. COYBs. Please. Soon!
@@SultanofWoolton - the planning permission was given with the stipulation that we had to keep a water channel between the 2 x neighbouring Docks, it wasn't an option to have a full second fan zone there sadly.
@@DuncTheBlue1878 You're right of course. It was merely a "wouldn't it have been better" thought. I'm thinking beyond it being a footy stadium, and what we are looking for in the way of other events, conferences, receptions etc. The more open space we can get, the better. file under Oh Well.
We want our statues Why do they think they can remove the. ? They mean lot to so many people Why should a yank even care. He has no idea about the club,the legends or the fans Y/N
Amazing stadium 😂😂😂, it looks disgusting , plain brickwork with a upside down saucepan as a roof... At this rate you might have to wait till your playing in the championship in you new shitehole for game you actually win
@@stephenlinden-wyatt-ys8vy anfield, is that where the 6 european cups are held in the trophy museum... your new dust bowl has no history, and the only history it will have after the first season is a season getting thumped in the championship
@@jeffbarker4895 Don't forget the "Get all Teams Ban from Europe Cup" you must be so proud of that one. And how is that "New" Stadium of lfc coming on you know the one in Stanley Park that they put the "shovel in the ground" about 10 years ago?
@@ianphillips9455 1 thing i will never understand, why the fuck would you follow neverton if you lived in liverpool, 🤣🤣🤣 all those special european nights at anfield, the european cup finals, fa cups , super cups, league cups , league titles..... and you decided to support neverton 🤣🤣it amazes me, why would you be so thick, and support a club always in the shadows of the acheivments and the history of liverpool football club....neverton are an embarrasment to the city of liverpool, even tranmere have a better win percentage than you losers
Thanks for your time and dedication Nick.
Best wishes.
Paul.
I'm a villa fan and what a goal from Duran I do hope you stay up and loved watching everton back in the 80s and especially moving in to that stunning new stadium next season good luck
Thank you so much Nick you’re a star. 💙💙💙
Thanks for your dedication.......
Nick, well done and thanks for getting in amongst the rain and the quick turnaround of the editing and release.
PoI's:
1) @ 1:24 mins, we can see that they have been clearing up the ground in the access way of the southernmost Tower Gate, so we can expect to see the installation of bollards, setts and stones in the accessway and along the inside of Regent Road wall. According to the plans there might be some extension of the heritage rail tracks at the SE corner of the site too.
2) @ 1:51 mins, we can see that LoR have installed a Retaining Wall that extends from the very NE corner of the Brick facade towards the NW corner of the Pump House, which divides the level of the Away Fans walk route and the Vehicular Access route, from the lower and sloping northern end of the East Plaza, which leads to the northern East Stand entrances for Home GA Fans that will be going to their seats in the Lower Tier of the North Stand (go back to the studio video from last year to see the fans' routes for which I provided screenshots and drawings).
3) @ 3:59 mins, it's striking how pronounced the control or inspection panels appear on the southern wall of the West Stand Mansard Roof (they're just under vertical line of the edge of the barrel-cladding).
4) @ 4:23 mins, we can see 4 very chunky black posts, or bars, currently laid horizontally on the West Quay. I don't know what they are or where they will be located. "Watch that space" (As a footnote, I have been trying to spot where they are storing the paneling that will fitted to both ends of the Viewing Gallery but I guess they're still off-site or located on the SW Quayside of Nelson Dock).
5) @ 4:40 mins and afterwards, we can see that they have the inspection pits, and access to the conduits within the northern Isolation Bridge, open currently, so there is no traffic going across the northern Isolation Bridge. With the contractors busy on the front of the West Concourse, the material dug out of the water channel dam is probably being taken out at the SW corner to the Nelson Dock Quaysides and out via the temporary car park.
6) @ 8:57 mins, we can see 'black' barriers being fitted as well as the steel frames in the Executive Boxes area. It might be interesting to take a closer look.
7) @ 9:05 mins, we can see that they have installed the companions' seats at the NE corner for the Away Fans' Accessibility Area.
@@davidbadcock2225 😍
Great update Nick really exciting to see these updates mate. Makes up for the sham on the pitch
I watch your vids Nick and can't quite believe that this amazing stadium is ours! Goo work as usual. Thanks .
Thank you 😁
Great flyaround as ever. Thank you. The team will need to look at keeping possession at rates much higher than we are. It's what a professional team is about. The manager says its at the margins. I am not sure what this means and just what is the message being conveyed. You loose possession, you fight to take repossession and help you teammates do this. What is the difficulty in not understanding this? Learn to trust and depend on teammates and grow to shine again. Come on EVERTON - Shine please.
Thank you again mate
Hi nick. Good morning another loss but I won’t bore you with that another great fly around it keeps me sane and thanks
Great vid as always nick, great dedication with the weather
Nick, I'm making this entry for everyone's benefit so that you can make it clear on your midweek video, or may be a studio update, to stop the confusion or criticism of LoR, claiming they've made a mistake or that something has gone wrong with regard to the water channel. So many people jump to the conclusions that because it involves EFC, even indirectly, that it must be a mistake, an error or wrong decision as that "would be so Everton". It also means I can copy and paste the following points, or just refer to it, for all those that keep making comments on this observation and deducing incorrect conclusions.
It's an unavoidably long explanation.
1) The Water Channel is retained for at least 2 reasons: a) it addresses a very real, practical need by The Environmental Agency and their mandate for water management, with minimal additional engineering and cost-impacted actions and b) the Heritage Stakeholders required the connection of the docks north from the centre to be 'continuous' for the preservation of their strategy.
2) As everyone should know from their basic school days' Geography with regard to the "Water Cycle", water rises from the sea then drops on land as rain. The rain continues to follow the rules of gravity, so we get streams and rivers that make their way to the sea.
3) The collective northern Liverpool Docks are fed by two sources: a) freshwater that comes from streams that feed the canals, with those canals feeding into Nelson Dock eventually and b) by the occasional inflow of minimal amounts of saline water (relative the volume of the northern docks) from the estuary, at higher tides, IF the only lock(s) still functioning as part of the Liverpool Freeport, towards the northern end of the whole dock area, open to let a large vessel come in or go out.
4) Sandon Half-Tide Dock, to the north of BMD, is connected to Liverpool Freeport and is saline water. As it's fairly undisturbed water, with only the tugs really using it as a berth, the water in Sandon retains a fairly consistent blue-green water colour.
5) Since the start of the BMD project, 2 things happened at the north and south ends of what is now the water channel, as opposed to the entrances to BMD of old: a) a change in the process at the southern Isolation Bridge and b) the creation of a dam at the northern end of the channel area, so that the whole of the channel area would be useful for the project.
6) At the southern end, the South Isolation Bridge was already in situ and had been for many years. It actually performs the role of a controlled dam and is the division between the freshwater in Nelson Dock and the saline water of BMD, Sandon Dock and beyond.
7) The southern Isolation Bridge contains 8 valves/sluices (you can see the man-holes for each at the south side of the southern Isolation Bridge) that will be controlled by the Environment Agency to regulate the quantity of water in Nelson Dock and the canal network, allowing more water to pass in the 'wet seasons' or after heavy rainfall, and closing the valves in particularly dry periods. The southern Isolation Bridge is a very, very important structure in maintaining ALL the docks water levels at a fairly consistent level without having to install, or resurrect, lots of complicated multlilocks and control points.
8) So, if the sluices were not going to be opened at all during the project it meant that they had to devise a temporary means for getting the water in Nelson Dock to Sandon Dock. LoR installed temporary pipes, pumps and sumps to draw water from a) Nelson Dock but also b) the underlying water-table at or below the bedrocks under the BMD water-channel area. For those that had been observant during the project you could clearly see the 3/4 'wells' that were drawing water out/up to a large Blue Tank located on the West Quay about where the excavator now sits and in line with the remaining northern end sandbar dam. The extracted water was being aerated before being discharged through a pipe that went down into the water of Sandon Dock just north of the current sandbar dam and just south of the NEW Northern Isolation Bridge.
9) It should be emphasised that the new northern Isolation Bridge has always been a literal bridge and NOT a dam, which is why there had to be a stone-based, weak-concrete, sand-topped temporary dam created just south of the northern Isolation Bridge. They used this dam as a roadway, if you recall, as the northern Isolation Bridge has not really been used extensively for vehicle access. One of the most important factors about the northern Isolation Bridge is that it has huge ducts travelling through it that carry all the Electrical mains cables from Blackstone Street through the site to the Substations in the DNOC, as well as subsidiary power connections and all the optic fibre cables that connect the DNOC and the whole stadium with the great wide world.
10) I doubt very much that people had realised just how much water LoR were pumping from the lower water-table and Nelson Dock. If you looked closely at the large blue-tank, now removed, it was a very significant flow.
11) It seems that quite a significant few observers thought the way of allowing water into the channel would be to remove the temporary dam, rather than the opposite method, with its much better safety, allowing safety checks, the use of natural forces, taking into account the laws of physics and the principles that Archimedes discovered millenia ago.
12) Breaching the dam first would have been disastrous because the forces would be totally uncontrollable. The pressure forces of the whole of the area of Liverpool Freeport would have pressed through the first small breach and ripped the dam apart taking most of the dam with it across the water channel. Most people SHOULD recall that from childhood when playing dams, moats and sandcastles on the beach.
13) The easier way to control it all, at a relatively slower pace, is, and was, merely to turn off the pumps and allow "nature" to take over, allowing the freshwater to migrate into the channel but also opening the valves and sluices in the southern Isolation Bridge a fraction. This then allowed the water in the channel to have built up to near the top of the dam.
14) Once the water level either side of the dam was about equal, then THAT was the moment for the excavator to dig a small breach channel at the eastern end of the sandbar dam to allow the equally-pressured distinct bodies of water to join up. All under control, no sudden, damaging rushes of water going anywhere. All smooth and entirely intentional.
15) As the pressures are now balanced either side of the temporary sandbar dam, so the excavator can calmly remove the remainder of the dam, which includes sand and also previously laid rocks.
16) Preservation of the southern Isolation Bridge in its entirety and the construction of the northern Isolation Bridge as a bridge and not as a dam, means that the original, pre-project status is maintained and does not require any re-engineering of the whole northern Liverpool Docks system.
17) With regard to the colour and content of the water in the water channel, it will mostly be blue-green, due to it being mainly saline but at times of high rainfall or the wet season, it may become temporarily brackish and a very slightly darker, bluer colour as more freshwater is allowed to pass into the channel.
18) There would be no point in providing a different base to the water channel, even though relatively shallow, as it will hold a small amount of fine particles and, being mostly saline, not really totally clear at any point, as is the case in Sandon Dock, which will be the predominant water content. Trying to make the water clear and illuminating it would not really achieve its aim against the prevailing natural limitations, bearing in mind all the absolutely necessary part it plays in the dock system.
Hi David. There is a lot of discussion on the colour of the water - should it be green etc. If one looks at Nicks very first video of the site before the work started, the water in this channel was green - the colour it is now. I am not sure why anyone thinks it should be different now
@@oneredmouse You are spot on and I am a little surprised that anyone was thinking otherwise. However, I do have to say that through the whole project there have been plenty of illogical and ignorant comments Mostly innocent and benign). Everyone has been able to see for months, or years, that the northern Isolation Bridge was a bridge, not a dam, so it's obvious that the water migration from Sandon Dock would prevail for the greenish colour of the water in the channel.
It will only darken for very short periods IF really heavy rainfall means a) the valves/sluices in the southern Isolation Dock have to be opened a little more and b) a large swell of BMD groundwater exits the pipe about halfway along the Lower Promenade. But it will very quickly be diluted by the huge mass of saline water in Sandon and beyond.
Outstanding as usual sir .🏗🏟👍
Great video thanks Nick
Great to see the waterway filled with water. Although there's still some work to do in that area.
Hi Nick, once again another great video on a Sunday. Please keep up this great work. At 7:38 as the drone comes round from the South Stand Roof to the East Stand Roof we get to see the Blue Marbled tiles and the camera really does show the water effect that was intended, hope you can show this again when it's dry to see if there is much difference.
Hiya Nick, I was in total shock when Everton let slip a 2-0 lead, I watched the first half of Everton and the second half of Liverpool, the board will be bloody annoyed what's happening, but I wish Everton all the luck in the world in the coming season, could you imagine if Newcastle relegate Everton, I don't think it'll happen, Eddie Howe is a Everton fan, the new ground is looking spot on, this is Choppy
Thanks so much buddy
Nice one 👍🏻
Great video thanks lee
Great coverage as always Nick, not sure if this has been asked but are the statues at Goodison (Dixie and the Holy trinity ones) being relocated to the New stadium site and if so where they being put?
The statues are staying where they are.
It’s amazing how much bigger the media centre and back generators are now the water is in.
I know what you're trying to say but I can't help pointing out that the DNOC and its contents haven't actually changed size! I think that would be a trick beyond LoR's clearly excellent capabilities. 😉🙃
I was going to add an entry earlier with the following:
"PoI's:
1) @ 1:24 mins, we can see . .
2) @ 1:51 mins, we can see . .
3) @ 3:59 mins, we can see . .
4) @ 4:23 mins, we can see . .
5) @ 4:40 mins, we can see . .
6) @ 8:57 mins, we can see . .
7) @ 9:05 mins, we can see . .
Stephen Linden will be filling in the blanks".
But I've decided against that. It might have been funny only to a small audience.
@@davidbadcock2225 rofl, you’re a legend mate 😂 although I think you are discrediting LOR 😁😉
@@stephenlinden-wyatt-ys8vy 😀
Hi Nick,
Hope you are ok!
A random question I know but can you tell me where I can park my car around anfield as my son and I are travelling from Norwich to watch the reds play Bologna soon.
Is the Stanley Park car park permit only or pay and display. We are staying in Knowsley.
Any information you could give us would be hugely appreciated.
Great video Nick, KC did a late night video from Seaforth of the Queen Mary leaving, as it sailed past just the with just the work lights on it looked good, when the stadium is fully lit the waterfront will look superb.
Great video considering the poor weather.
The plaza with the blue stone looks more realistic in the wet.
Evening Nick, great video as usual, just one for your question fly around, where abouts in the stadium is the away end going to be located?
North east stand lower tier for league games. Also the north east upper tier for cup games.
@@DuncTheBlue1878 thanks Dunc
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great vid, we need a general on the pitch.
Another top video mate, I’ve noticed numbers on top of the turnstiles on east side when you can have a close up please to see if I wasn’t seeing thins they were on north east corner
Yeah, the blue numbers look good 👍🏻
At last, a bit of blue on the outside.
Stadium would have been better with retractable roof
My Barcode Reader says "250gms Blue Shite. Expires May 2025" 😂😂😂😂
Hi Nick. Any idea why they allowed water in the channel when there was still a huge pile of sand to remove? Wondering if they are just going to leave it there or eventually move it ! Thanks
That ‘huge pile of sand’ is the dam that they’re excavating carefully. You can’t excavate a dam and keep the water out at the same time - the dam keeps the water away
Nick - im thinking that the plan was to remove most of the sand at the North end of the water channel, then to unplug the stoppers in the South end of the water channel, and to slowly fill the channel up, I'd guess that the Dam broke at the North end whilst digging, and that meant that the neighbouring dock at United Utilities was inevitably going to fill the water channel very quickly.
There were big blue numbers above the east stand turnstiles on some other droners footage = 19 + 20.
There are some blue marks on the United Utilities side of the North Stand, maybe areas that need repainting?
The dam burst like our defence.
@@sparkymark68 It was all planned...
I only just noticed on mister drone video as I didn’t see when I done the short video zooming in to the turnstile great catch mate
Another great video Nick
Let’s not talk about yesterday
Couple of questions
1) will the west terrace steps get finishing copings or the blue stones representing the water? They just look unfinished to me
2) will the water channel water be filtered/cleaned as it looks murky at the moment?
3) where will the tv camera positions be in the stadium?
Cheers
1) Steps are finished - but they’ll be installing hand rails.
2) Water won’t be filtered. Once the dam is fully excavated, the water should settle and turbidity will reduce. But it won’t look like the Nelson Dock water because that’s fresh and the water channel is saline/brackish.
3) Main TV camera will be in the west stand. You can see the concrete TV camera platform just above the higher executive boxes, at the bottom of the west stand upper tier 8:10
The blue stones representing water are at the front of the steps and under the 3 x tunnels only, no coping stones.
The water channel will settle but it is sea water with sand under it.
The Media section is in the middle of the West Stand, there are other camera positions too, in the corners etc.
So far so good from Laing o’rourke on the stadium build but nov/dec they hand it over to Everton to finish it off and no doubt they’ll balls it up like everything else they balls up !
@@tonysmith7913 Yeah, you’re probably right 🤦🏼♂️
How exciting is this?! These videos provide me with some perspective after the recent losses. The club will move forward onto bigger and better things. This stadium should be the start of it all for us.
A couple of questions if you have any knowledge as to their answers. First, is the roof going to be finished with a silver skin? It looks odd being different to the curved sides. Second, is there going to be some kind of cladding going up to hide the concrete underside of the terraces?
Thanks for all of these videos! You are doing an amazing job.
Nope and nope 👍🏻
It seems such a wasted area that could be utilised.
Great video as usual. Nick. Well done for getting it done in the conditions. At 1:34 you can see numbers to gate entrances above some of the turnstiles. Do you know if there will be another layer on the concrete around the stadium behind the terracing? Also at 8:57 there are some form form of barriers below the corporate boxes. Would you know the reasons for these? And lastly also at 8:57 on the SW corner they have removed seats and added some sort of railings. Keep up the great work 👍🏾
The ‘barriers’ at 8:57 are to provide privacy for the most expensive seats in the stadium - for the owners, Directors, shareholders and ‘VIPs’
So we can all see what happens next time someone grabs our CEO around the neck.??
@@markkirwin3883 It’ll be a headlock free zone
@DuncTheBlue1878 I had an inkling that's the reason they're there
Any idea when Everton way stones are going in
Worryingly, Everton FC are sorting that out after LoR have finished late November/early December. Bound to go wrong 🤦🏼♂️
Mr Drone, I could be wrong about this, of course, but I am convinced that there is a Service Road being constructed on the North Side and vehicles will not have to negotiate the narrow gap between the Pump Hose and the trees and have to travel in the narrow gap between the stadium wall and the support columns. But like I said, I could be wrong...
That land you’re referring to will be handed back to United Utilities.
The northern access is sufficiently wide enough for the team bus
Mike: I know you to be an intelligent person, based on previous discussions and comments. I have to say that I am somewhat puzzled and 'miffed' that my explanations about the spatial dimensions and the access ways along the north perimeter have not been accepted. This issue is like trying to convince flat-earthers that the factual evidence implies they are not being rational.
Recap: the distance between the Tactile Edge strip (the darker corrugated strip of flags that are in an unbroken arrow-straight line from near the entrance gateway, past the Pump House and under the overhang to the NW corner) and the Trees is more than 5m wide, and it's about 5m between the strip and the base of the posts under the overhang.
That width of 5m would just about allow 2 cars to pass each other comfortably but not quite 2 lorries or coaches (but Security will not allow 2 such vehicles to need to be passing each other anyway). Lorries and coaches are 2.55m wide. The maths doesn't lie, it really doesn't.
I urge you to consider the following incontrovertible fact: the gate barrier at the Security Hut is wide enough to accept ALL vehicles and it is intentionally the narrowest point the whole way along the north side. So, IF all vehicles can pass through that bottleneck, why do you think that they can't travel easily along the rest of the route, which is much wider?
I am going to assume you think that at 2:07 mins, the row of 11 temporary posts, fencing and heavy-weight ballast blocks that hold them in place, on UU's land, is the start of a new permanent route. It isn't: it's a "safe island" next to the current temporary vehicular route for a) the machinery and contractors that have been building the shutters and filling them with concrete for the permanent fence base wall that runs along the north side of the row of trees (at this time in the video the base wall is hidden behind some additional mobile concrete crash barriers too) and b) for equipment that has been used to get materials safely offloaded and located for the work at the northern end of the East Plaza, without having to use the future permanent vehicular route adjacent to the Pump House, so that the granite setts remain 'pretty' for longer. It's why there is also still a gap between the stretches of the future north perimeter permanent base wall described.
I send you my best regards and wishes.
Nick why do you think they filled the dock in when sand hasn’t been fully removed yet?
The block is still in place on the south end. The north end was a sand dam and always the weakest point.
You can’t excavate a dam without letting water in because the dam holds the water back
Another fantastic video Nick,, shame the blue boys aren't as good as your videos but thanks for sharing UTFT 😊
Looks great now that the channel has water in it, looks like the cladding below the barrel sections is next to be done on the south stand.
Also Nick, I’ve heard a rumour that season ticket holders won’t be able to choose their seat by going to the stadium, you have to do a virtual choice..shame that.
Didn’t know that about the season ticket seat - real shame, I was looking forward to actually visiting the stadium and choosing
Greetings from Georgia, Nick watching today's fly-around it reminded me of a job I was on in Azerbaijan while working for BP our office entrance on site was very much like the stairway to the West Stand entrance but not as big. This facility had been in operation for some years without any problems until we had a safety review one day and HSE forced us to put handrails up these stairs. Do you know if this will be a requirement in this instance
I'd imagine that safety rails would be mandatory in this health and safety, and Sueing Culture nowadays.
Yes, there will be handrails
Probably a Question long answered. Do you (or David Badcock) know which side the main TV camera position will be?
The main TV camera will be in the west stand to avoid direct sunlight into the lens. You can see the concrete platform where the camera will be just above the higher executive boxes at the bottom of the west stand upper tier at 8:57
11:00 I fear Everton will be playing their first season in the new stadium in the championship.
Don't fear lad. I doubt it. COYB.
Why are you the 1st to say that statement 🤪
Everton might employ the Chelsea model and sell the ground back to themselves. Thereby raising £1bn to assist in buying a few players in January. In fact we might help Chelsea out further with their PSR by buying a few of their players.
Good Morning Mr. Drone. Nice new stadium Everton has in Liverpool. Not a blue fan but a red one. Nevertheless, all the best.
Does anyone know what's going to happen to the Archibald Leitch criss-cross balcony fronts once Goodison Park gets demolished? (Even typing that sentence is emotionally difficult!)
Great Stadium. Come on Everton, come back stronger next matches. From South East Asian❤..
Great vid mate, need Branthwaite back asap...
Dronemanship, video and music all Absolutely Awesome Nick Great work. Well Done 👏👏👏👏👏
Great vid, shame about those monstrosities spinning around in the background. The countries drowning with them.
With Spud Dyche, the tactical potato at the helm, we'll be playing Preston and QPR there next season.
With a fantastic stadium like this there is surely no way that Everton fans can think about relegation get behind the team and cheer them on to better things. C. F. C. 🏐🍀🇮🇪
I think we must go back to the raucus welcome at goodison.. bring the blue flairs out and welcome the blue bus on arrival to the ground .....COME ON YOU BLUES.......
Hi nick.. I asked EFC 3 years ago about Dixie's and the 3 graces.. I was told they will remain on goodison road. This is wrong. The statues are part of our History.. how will the younger ones ever learn of the immense part they played in our past.. as we say ..... IF you know ur history .. kev.66
Hi Nick, Brilliant videos so thanks.
How do you crowds will leave the site as those gaps in the dock wall aren't that big for 53k people?
The club want fans to stay in the stadium after the final whistle to enjoy the bars and restaurants. Crowd modelling has shown the 6 exits in the Regent Road wall are sufficient with very little delays for fans leaving
They’ll also be exits along the riverfront and further along regent road, towards the city.
But as the other comment explains… Evertonians will enjoy a pie and a pint at the ground after the game. We have no urgency to get to the airport or the train station as we can walk home.
@@garybrereton7521 Yeah, we don’t need to catch a flight to Scandinavia or drive down to Essex
@@garybrereton7521 exits along the riverfront and further along Regent Road? Is this breaking news? I haven’t heard anything or seen anything that suggests that to be the case. What’s the source of this Gary?
@@davegerrard4960 my eyes…
the sea wall runs from the pier head, with a minor deviation around the Isle of Man terminal to the dockers clock. That whole area is being renovated, do delusional kopites like yourself honestly believe that Liverpool council won’t provide access to the biggest entertainment venue in the city.
As for Regent Road I’m talking about Nelson Dock and the other entrances further along, which adjoin Bramley-Moore.
Looking good!! lets just hope you’re in the prem and not the championship when u move in!! It,ll be criminal if you do go down.. fingers crossed 🤞🏻
Great video again Nick. I'm having one of my wouldn't-it-have-been-better-if moments. As good as the water channel looks, using the blue stones instead of the channel would have given us another type of fan zone, additional parking and usefulness. If the channel was to be a working waterway, I'd think differently. COYBs. Please. Soon!
@@SultanofWoolton - the planning permission was given with the stipulation that we had to keep a water channel between the 2 x neighbouring Docks, it wasn't an option to have a full second fan zone there sadly.
Darren is spot on - the water channel was a request from the council, Historic England and the Environment Agency - the club had no choice
@@DuncTheBlue1878 You're right of course. It was merely a "wouldn't it have been better" thought. I'm thinking beyond it being a footy stadium, and what we are looking for in the way of other events, conferences, receptions etc. The more open space we can get, the better. file under Oh Well.
We want our statues
Why do they think they can remove the. ? They mean lot to so many people
Why should a yank even care. He has no idea about the club,the legends or the fans Y/N
Amazing stadium 😂😂😂, it looks disgusting , plain brickwork with a upside down saucepan as a roof... At this rate you might have to wait till your playing in the championship in you new shitehole for game you actually win
No need for that abuse on here mate. Great video as always nick. You don't warrent Prats like that commenting on your site.
I heard Liverpool have signed naming rights with Staples - Anfield the hole punch stadium. 😂
@@stephenlinden-wyatt-ys8vy anfield, is that where the 6 european cups are held in the trophy museum... your new dust bowl has no history, and the only history it will have after the first season is a season getting thumped in the championship
@@jeffbarker4895 Don't forget the "Get all Teams Ban from Europe Cup" you must be so proud of that one. And how is that "New" Stadium of lfc coming on you know the one in Stanley Park that they put the "shovel in the ground" about 10 years ago?
@@ianphillips9455 1 thing i will never understand, why the fuck would you follow neverton if you lived in liverpool, 🤣🤣🤣 all those special european nights at anfield, the european cup finals, fa cups , super cups, league cups , league titles..... and you decided to support neverton 🤣🤣it amazes me, why would you be so thick, and support a club always in the shadows of the acheivments and the history of liverpool football club....neverton are an embarrasment to the city of liverpool, even tranmere have a better win percentage than you losers