North Canterbury News: September 28, 2023
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NEWS<br />
The <strong>North</strong> <strong>Canterbury</strong> <strong>News</strong>, <strong>September</strong> <strong>28</strong>, <strong>2023</strong><br />
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Specialist flood team<br />
By DAVID HILL,<br />
Local Democracy Reporter<br />
An increase in heavy rain events is<br />
forcing the Waimakariri District<br />
Council to rethinkhow it responds.<br />
Thecouncil has established an<br />
infrastructure resilienceteam to lead<br />
flood recovery efforts.<br />
Councillorshave also approved $4<br />
million for infrastructure repairs,<br />
following afloodevent in July, which<br />
saw more than 150mm of rainfall over<br />
threedays.<br />
‘‘We know severeweather eventsare<br />
happeningmore regularly and during<br />
each eventwelearn more about our<br />
stormwater, wastewaterand roading<br />
networks and where they need be<br />
strengthened andinvestment focused,’’<br />
MayorDan Gordon said.<br />
‘‘Rather than engaging consultants to<br />
workalongsidestaff, we’ve decided to<br />
recruit and put in placeaspecialist<br />
team to work on current known issues<br />
and improve the resilience of our<br />
entirenetwork.’’<br />
Thecouncil received 335 service<br />
requests from residents following<br />
July’srainevent, compared to more<br />
than 800 requests from amore severe<br />
rain event last year.<br />
TheJuly rain eventled to a<br />
precautionary selfevacuation of<br />
Tuahiwi at its peak, numerous road<br />
closures andwidespread surface<br />
flooding.<br />
‘‘Residents have told the council<br />
they’re concerned aboutflooding<br />
during heavy rainevents, especially<br />
now theyare happening more<br />
regularly,’’ Mr Gordon said.<br />
‘‘And they want assurance we’re<br />
doingwhatwecan to reduce the<br />
likelihood of flooding.’’<br />
❛Rather than engaging<br />
consultants to work<br />
alongside staff, we’ve<br />
decided to recruit and put in<br />
place aspecialist team to<br />
work on current known<br />
issues and improve the<br />
resilience of our entire<br />
network.❜<br />
—Waimakariri MayorDan Gordon<br />
He said the new fund provided a<br />
budget to fix known issues and to put<br />
skilled people in place as part of an<br />
infrastructure resilience team.<br />
The main areas to experience issues<br />
from July’s rain eventincluded Cam<br />
River/Ruataniwha, the Tuahiwi area,<br />
and Waikuku Beach.<br />
There werealso roadrepairs<br />
needed,including Lees Valley Road.<br />
Over the past threeyears $22.3<br />
million has been spent in Kaiapoi on<br />
floodprotection works such as<br />
pumping stations, drainand culvert<br />
improvements and mainsreplacement.<br />
It was partially fundedfrom the<br />
government’s ‘‘shovel ready’’ fund.<br />
‘‘We’vealready seen the benefit of<br />
theseimprovements during the July<br />
<strong>2023</strong> flooding known lowlying areas<br />
in Kaiapoi remained safe,’’ Mr Gordon<br />
said.<br />
‘‘We want to continue to build on this<br />
momentum with thisnew team and<br />
new fund.’’<br />
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