Eighteen months’ work and a couple of grand spent on a native garden have been squashed flat by Water Corp contractors.
Chapman Street resident Steve O’Brien took great pride in his verge, removing weedy sand and spending time and money bringing in soil and new plants.
“After 18 months of surviving contractors and poor car-parkers we expected this summer to see the various plants fully cover the area,” he told the Voice.
“We got home [Monday] to find that contractors who are putting water pipes in the street have parked on it: Mini excavator, bobcat and compactor on the top of the plants.”
Mr O’Brien says the decision to park on his verge garden was bizarre: “Ours is the only verge garden in the entire street!
“There are some survivors in the plants they rolled over, but all the grevilleas… are goners.”
Water Corp’s Jaselyn O’Sullivan said Mr O’Brien’s verge would be put back just as it was: “We apologise for any inconvenience this has caused.”
by DAVID BELL
Perth Voice Interactive 
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