25th November 2009, 01:43 PM
On a community dig that we had last year the community themselves took charge of the amount of people that could dig at any one time. People had to sign up in advance and say what day and time they were going to arrive. This mean't that we didn't have too many people at any one time to cope with but enough people got the chance to dig if they wanted to throughout the week. This obviously takes a bit of forward planning but I think it was worth the effort. Getting swamped with people is when a potentially dangerous situation could arise so limiting numbers at any one time may take the risk out of a situation.