THE drainage and irrigation work that is currently being undertaken at the County Ground is progressing well and is being assisted by the continuing run of dry weather.

Earlier today head groundsman Simon Lee said: “The groundwork here is going really well and we have been very fortunate with the weather, which has meant that we are ahead of schedule with the drainage work.

“By Thursday we should have finished doing the drains and then Ocmis, a local company from Kingsbury Episcopi who have undertaken quite a few irrigation projects including the Olympic Park in London and the County Ground at Hove, will be in with us starting to set out all of the sprinkler heads and putting the pipes down.

“Once that all gets into the ground we can start watering the drainage lines so we can get the grass growing.”

Regarding a deadline for the completion of the work at the County Ground the head Groundsman said: “We were hopefully looking at a December deadline, but if the weather holds then we could be done by the middle of November.”

Simon added: “However most of the aggressive work that cant be undertaken in the wet should be done by the end of this week, so we are looking really good.”