Students from Mount Gambier High School will commence onsite at a new exciting Target Work project on Thursday 6th August on parcel of land previously occupied by the Bureau of Meteorology and owned by the District Council of Grant. The parcel of land previously occupied by the Bureau will be handed back to the Grant District Council on July 31st for the exciting project to commence.
The project involves the dismantling of superseded Bureau upper wind measurement equipment (or “Profiler”) and the rejuvenation of the site for ongoing use by the local community. The project has become possible because the Bureau is installing an “autosonde” system that will automatically measure winds, temperature, humidity and pressure in the upper atmosphere.
The students under the supervision of Des Ryan, teacher from Mount Gambier High School will spend one day a week on site, dismantling the Profilers, collecting the copper cable and cleaning up the site. Once the site is restored, the students will use their enterprise skills to sell the scrap metal to use the funds to repair and restore a hut on the site. The restored hut will then go up for Community tender and be relocated. Once relocated the students will landscape and settle the restored hut into its new surroundings. Mount Gambier Airport Manager Ian Fritsch and will play a key role in overseeing the project.
BLAH BLAH BLAH
Is this the beginning of the end of Profilers in VK??
44 55 and 49 MHZ??
HOPE IT IS..
