The Star: July 26, 2018

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Fire rages, homes at risk
$2.2b and SCIRT is gone
• By Bridget Rutherford
THE FINAL bill for fixing and
replacing more than 640km of
earthquake-damaged pipes, 108
pump stations, 1300 sq km of
roads was $2.2 billion.
The Stronger Christchurch
Infrastructure Rebuild Team
officially wound up this month
after its 12-month defects liability
period ended.
SCIRT senior project manager
Ross Herrett said while
construction of all projects was
completed in June, 2017, 754
further items needed repairing
since then.
He said the total cost of the
defects liability programme was
$5,513,000 – two per cent of the
total SCIRT programme.
The massive seven-year programme
cost $2,230,408,000 in
total, Mr Herrett said.
Of that, 54 per cent came from
the Crown, and 46 per cent from
the city council, he said.
“SCIRT’s $2.23 billion sevenyear
programme involved more
than 700 individual projects
across the city repairing and
rebuilding underground sewage,
stormwater and freshwater
pipes, rebuilding wastewater
pump stations as well as roads,
BIG JOB: SCIRT officially wound up this month after its
defects liability period ended.
bridges and retaining walls,” Mr
Herrett said.
SCIRT, which was an alliance
between the city council and
the Government, was formed
after the February 22, 2011,
earthquake.
It was tasked with repairing
and replacing Christchurch’s
three waters, roading and bridge
networks, as well as some retaining
walls and stopbanks.
Mr Herrett said SCIRT repaired
and replaced 500km of
pipes and 78 pump stations in
the wastewater network.
He said four stormwater
pump stations and 50km of
stormwater pipes were repaired
and replaced, along with 90km
of pipes and 26 pump stations in
the fresh water system.
He said 1300 sq km of roads
were replaced or repaired, as
were 144 bridges and culverts
and 180 retaining walls.
Mr Herrett said the SCIRT
programme officially finishing
was a significant milestone for
Christchurch.
“The completion of the SCIRT
repair programme has enabled
the council’s earthquake damaged
horizontal infrastructure
to be restored to a functioning
infrastructure network for the
city, noting there is more work
to be done to return the city’s infrastructure
to pre-earthquake
levels.”
He said it also ensured there
were learnings that could be
utilised in the future.
“Early on, both the council
and SCIRT recognised the importance
of ensuring all the information
generated by SCIRT,
including lessons learned, was
transferred to the council at the
end of the programme.”
He said that included having
all relevant information about
the assets it owned and the
ability to use the data and documentation
created by SCIRT.
Ongoing improvement projects
were under way to make
the information easier to access
and use, Mr Herrett said.
Cyber crims
target
Dalziel
•From page 1
Netsafe chief executive Martin
Cocker said while there had been
a large spike in the number of
reports, they had not heard of
anyone paying up.
“Netsafe has received more
than 300 reports from people
who have been affected by this
type of fake sextortion scam in
the past week.”
He said there would likely
have been more that had gone
unreported. While the threats
were alarming, the scammer
could not access your computer,
he said.
“Scammers are becoming
increasingly sophisticated in
their methods and it’s important
that everyone takes steps to keep
themselves safe.”
If you receive an email like this,
Netsafe recommends to delete
and mark it as spam, and change
your passwords on any accounts
that may have been compromised.
•For more information,
visit netsafe.org.nz/
faketortian-email-scam/
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