Western News: June 28, 2016
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WESTERN NEWS Tuesday <strong>June</strong> <strong>28</strong> <strong>2016</strong> 3<br />
<strong>News</strong><br />
Quarry’s $1m underpass<br />
• By Tom Doudney<br />
FULTON HOGAN has spent<br />
$1 million on installing an<br />
underpass underneath a public<br />
road to connect two sides of its<br />
Miners Rd quarry in Yaldhurst.<br />
The underpass, which links<br />
the two 40ha sections of<br />
quarry either side of the road,<br />
is expected to reduce transport<br />
costs for the company by saving<br />
30,000 truck movements a year.<br />
While its processing plant is<br />
on the east side of Miners Rd,<br />
most of its extraction is taking<br />
place on the west side.<br />
An electric conveyor belt<br />
more than 1km long will<br />
transport material for crushing<br />
from one side to the other and<br />
this is expected to be up<br />
and running within the next<br />
month.<br />
Fulton Hogan environmental<br />
manager Peter Savage said<br />
getting the material from the<br />
extraction areas to the<br />
processing plant currently<br />
involved a 2.5km round trip<br />
for each truckload and the<br />
company had wanted to find a<br />
better way.<br />
“Digging up Miners Rd<br />
wasn’t an option,” Mr Savage<br />
said.<br />
“So quite simply, we ran the<br />
numbers on the pure economics<br />
of putting in an underpass<br />
as opposed to carting with the<br />
trucks.”<br />
Not having to send so many<br />
trucks across Miners Rd<br />
would improve the traffic situation<br />
for other road users as well.<br />
“You can’t really put a price<br />
on the safety aspect of taking<br />
those trucks off the road and<br />
obviously it also reduces the<br />
emissions from those trucks,”<br />
Mr Savage said.<br />
The reduction in truck movements<br />
was expected to reduce<br />
GOING UNDER:<br />
An electric<br />
conveyor<br />
belt passing<br />
through a new<br />
underpass<br />
will transport<br />
material from<br />
one side of<br />
Fulton Hogan’s<br />
Miners Rd<br />
quarry to the<br />
other. <br />
the company’s CO2 emissions<br />
by between 130 and 180 tonnes<br />
a year.<br />
Mr Savage said the conveyor<br />
belt was “like a giant Meccano<br />
set” which would have<br />
extra sections bolted on to it as<br />
needed to reach new extraction<br />
areas in the quarry.<br />
In Brief<br />
SMOKEFREE ROCKQUEST<br />
Three bands from western high<br />
schools will compete in the<br />
Canterbury regional final for the<br />
Smokefree Rockquest at The Bedford<br />
this Friday. High school bands from<br />
Canterbury competed in heats last<br />
month and now the top 12 bands<br />
are set to play off for first and<br />
second place prizes and a spot in the<br />
national final in September. In The<br />
City from Christchurch Boys’ High<br />
School, Toastduty from Middleton<br />
Grange School and Ancora from<br />
Burnside High School will all<br />
compete on the night.<br />
FUNDING GRANTED<br />
The city council has put aside<br />
$500,000 in the <strong>2016</strong>-17 budget to<br />
fund additional work required at<br />
Mona Vale gatehouse and a building<br />
within Halswell Quarry Park for<br />
commercial activities.<br />
HALSWELL SKATE PARK<br />
A final recommendation on the<br />
site of the Halswell skate park and<br />
recreation area will be made by the<br />
end of next month. The Riccarton-<br />
Wigram Community Board has<br />
confirmed it expects to make a<br />
final decision on the site on July 27,<br />
following months of community<br />
consultation. The city council is<br />
looking at three possible locations<br />
– Knights Stream Sports Park,<br />
Halswell Domain and Westlake<br />
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