31.03.11. Steel mesh fence cordon. Feb 22 quake toppled, brick parapet, Ferry Rd, national state of emergency. Bldg would be demolished
CERA, established 29.03.11, a new govt department, Christchurch Earthquake Recovery Authority, would rule Christchurch for the next 5 years.
I turned right into quake bumpy Aldwins Rd, drove past pavement portaloos to Buckleys Rd / Linwood Ave crossing, where I stopped by Eastgate Mall. Last week I'd coolpixed ghosts, Linwood Ave / Aldwins Rd. A week later, all that was left was a demolition site, half demolished, brick bldgs, a yellow digger parked behind a steel mesh fence cordon. A new Burger King would be built on site. Would CERA deliver its promised safe bldgs during its 5 year tenure?
31.03.11. Orange, plastic, road cones, steel mesh fence cordon. Yellow digger, Feb 22 quake, demolition of old, brick shops, Linwood Ave / Aldwins Rd, national state of emergency. A Burger King was rebuilt on site
Buckleys Rd: Eastgate mall scaffolded. Two workmen on an expander-ladder by countdown wall, epoxy-glued cracks, then painting over. During the next few years I'd see many cracked, concrete walls, epoxy-glued. Patch jobs. Opp Eastgate Mall: a quake broken, brick, garden wall, brick rubble on pavement by a bus stop. Quakemire dust lay all along Buckleys Rd.
31.03.11. Buckleys Rd, Eastgate mall, national state of emergency
31.03.11. Steel mesh fence cordon. Feb 22 quake cracks repaired, countdown, Buckleys Rd, national state of emergency
31.03.11. Feb 22 quake collapsed, brick, garden wall & bus stop, Buckleys Rd, national state of emergency
Buckleys Rd, near Rhona St & Wyon St crossings: 5 toppled, concrete brick, garden walls. Concrete brick rubble lay in gardens. A fallen brick chimney, brick base, wood braced. Also, 2 toppled, concrete brick, garden walls near Dacre St.
31.03.11. Quake toppled, concrete brick, garden wall, Buckleys Rd, national state of emergency
31.03.11. Quake toppled, concrete brick, garden wall, Buckleys Rd, national state of emergency
Pages Rd / Woodham Rd: Waipuna Youth & Community Centre, Feb 22 Killer Quake fallen, concrete brick, garden wall on the opp cnr. Two blue portaloos on pavement outside the Early Childhood Centre. Quakemire heaps, sodden carpets on Pages Rd pavement. Green, plastic, sewage tank on the pavement, a threat sign:
HUMAN WASTE
ONLY
WASH HANDS AFTER DISPOSAL!!
BEWARE OF SPLASHBACK!!
A white, plastic, bottle of hand sanitiser was black taped to the sewage tank. I would see BEWARE SPLASHBACK signs on green, plastic, sewage tanks all over Christchurch. Tricky to wash hands after shit disposal when sewage pipes & water pipes had burst, mixing sewage, water, quakemire. Shit oozing portaloos, hand sanitiser smells, shit-full, plastic sewage tanks would accompany my cordon treks for months.
31.03.11. Feb 22 quake collapsed, concrete brick, garden wall, opp Waipuna Youth and Community Centre, Woodham Rd / Pages Rd, national state of emergency
31.03.11. Blue portaloos, Waipuna Youth and Community Centre, Woodham Rd / Pages Rd, national state of emergency
31.03.11. Feb 22 quake, green, plastic sewage tank, Woodham Rd / Pages Rd, national state of emergency
31.03.11. Feb 22 liquefaction silt & trashed carpets, Pages Rd, Waipuna Youth and Community Centre, national state of emergency
Post quake Avon River an open sewer. 1 000s of portaloos & green, plastic, sewage tanks polluted Christchurch. They stood on pavements wherever there was quake trashed housing & quake trashed sewage pipes.
Pages Rd: Uneven road surface between Waipuna Centre & Supershed Reuse Warehouse. Pages Road Market, Open Thursdays: wares for sale on trestle tables, clothes hung in the open air. A Cronos water tank, 2 shipping containers stood at the market. Cars, 3 white campervans parked in the quakemired carpark by the Marae: Te Runanga o Nga Maata Waka, Urban Maori Authority. Snapped Maori carvings at the marae gate.
31.03.11. Pages Rd, Thursday Market, national state of emergency
31.03.11. Pages Rd, Marae gate, national state of emergency
Pages Rd / Breezes Rd: Mobil garage closed, steel mesh fence cordoned. (Closed for months). Opp cnr, On The Spot shop. Fish 'n Chip & Burgers ghost shop, fallen side brick wall squashed cabbage trees. Brick rubble in garden. Exposed rooms. DANGER KEEP OUT, plastic tape lying on rubble, an ineffective cordon. Rotten food stench wafted: I became used to that stench trekking past ghost shops. Like apartheid SA townships, sewage oozing in muddy streets, garbage rotting on street sides. The Fish 'n Chip shop would be demolished.
31.03.11. Feb 22 quake closed, steel mesh fence cordoned, Mobil garage, Breezes Rd / Pages Rd, national state of emergency
31.03.11. DANGER KEEP OUT. Feb 22 quake trashed Fish n Chips & Burgers shop, Pages Rd / Breezes Rd, national state of emergency. The shop would be demolished
31.03.11. Orange, plastic, road cones & steel fence cordon. Road pipe excavation & repairs, after Feb 22 quake liquefaction, Marlow Rd, national state of emergency
Marlow Rd off Pages Rd: Water pipe excavation & repair: white, blue, red, plastic pipes lay on the pavement, 3 Hi-Vis vested workmen connected a drainage pipe, a white digger dumped earth onto a grey earth heap, orange, plastic, road cone cordoned. Several parked trucks.
Pages Rd: A yellow Waste Away tanker drove by. Portaloos, green, plastic, sewage tanks roadside. Dusty, dried quakemire by quake snapped, concrete curbs & quake displaced, iron drain grilles.
31.02.11. Yellow portaloo, Feb 22 liquefaction damage by drain pump station, Pages Rd / Porchester St, national state of emergency
31.03.11. Feb 22 quake tilted house by drain pump station & yellow portaloo, Pages Rd / Porchester St, national state of emergency
Pages Rd / Porchester St junction: Pages Rd descended into Bexley Swamp. Why were houses built there?Pages Rd / Porcester St opp Bexley Reserve: Yellow portaloo on quakemire. A green house, quake tilted towards a drain pump station, also quake tilted towards the green house. An above ground, black, plastic pipe pumped sewage from another house behind. A blue pump pumped beside the damaged, brick, pump station. Cracked concrete curbs, broken drains, raised iron grilles, damaged roads & pavements.
31.03.11. Yellow portaloo, Feb 22 quake tilted house & drain pump station, Porchester St / Pages Rd, national state of emergency
31.03.11. Feb 22 quake, blue pump by damaged, brick, pump station, Porchester St / Pages Rd, national state of emergency
Pages Rd: Porchester St to New Brighton Rd & Owles Tce roundabout: Road repairs in progress.
31.03.11. Man digging Feb 22 liquefaction silt from verge opp Bexley Reserve, Pages Rd, national state of emergency
31.03.11. Blue portaloo, Feb 22 quake damaged houses, opp Bexley Reserve, Pages Rd, national state of emergency
Pages Rd, Bexley Reserve entrance: Liquefaction road damage, repairs. An orange digger & white sucker truck parked roadside. Green, plastic, sewage tank, white plastic hand sanitiser bottle attached, portaloo on pavement. House wall, wood braced. A man dug silt by a garden wall. Silt damaged carpets by a tilted garden fence.
31.03.11. Green, plastic, sewage tank, Bexley Reserve entrance, Pages Rd, national state of emergency
31.03.11. Orange, plastic, road cone cordon. White, sewage tanker by Bexley Reserve entrance, Pages Rd, national state of emergency
31.03.11. Orange, plastic, road cone cordon. Orange digger, Bexley Reserve entrance, Pages Rd, national state of emergency
Farnborough St off Pages Rd: Portaloos, liquefaction sodden, carpet piles, house rubbish on pavements. Broken garden walls. Cracked driveways. Quakemire heaps roadside. Broken concrete curbs, displaced iron drain grilles. Green, plastic, sewage tank on pavement. Another in a park at road's end. Shingle repairs to road, tarseal pending.
31.03.11. Yellow portaloo, quake damaged Farnborough St off Pages Rd, national state of emergency
31.03.11. Feb 22 liquefactioned carpets, Farnborough St, national state of emergency
31.03.11. Feb 22 quake rubbish on pavement, Farnborough St, national state of emergency
31.03.11. Feb 22 quake damaged, concrete brick, garden wall, Farnborough St, national state of emergency
Most post quake, repaired roads I saw in Aranui & Bexley were patched, shingled, unsealed.
Pages Rd to Anzac Dr: Congested traffic. Patchy road works, shingled. Earthmoving machines: digger, trucks, road roller... I crossed open sewer, Avon River on Pages Rd Bridge & circled the roundabout by New Brighton Rd & Owles Tce back onto Pages Rd. Turned left into Wairoa St, Bexley, along Avon River.
Wairoa St: Bexley roads I drove had pavement portaloos, signifying sewer pipe damages. Most roads being repaired, like Wairoa St, full of workmen, road repair vehicles. e.g. A high pressure water-blasting truck blasted silt from underground sewage pipes. In hindsight, repairs were futile, CERA would soon red zone many roads I trekked that day.
Wairoa St / Morganwood St: White, plastic, water tank; portaloo; green, plastic, sewage tank, white, plastic, hand sanitiser bottle attached; 8 portaloo showers in a big, navy blue, shipping container at Bexley Wetland entrance near Avon Estuary. When I opened the temp, shower facility door, a quake-homeless man lay on the container floor. He'd slept the night there, quake "normal." Avon River bank was slumped due to lateral spreading.
31.03.11. White, plastic, water tank, Wairoa St / Morganwood St, Bexley, national state of emergency
31.03.11.Green, plastic, sewage tank, Wairoa St / Morganwood St, national state of emergency
31.03.11. Eight showers in a portaloo shipping container, Wairoa St / Morganwood St, national state of emergency. Temp refuge for a quake-homeless man
31.03.11. Wairoa St view, Feb 22 quake crackled footpath & slumped, Avon Estuary bank, national state of emergency. Slumping was due to lateral spreading
Seabreeze Cl in Bexley Wetland was trapped by rumbling Bexley Rd traffic W, Avon Estuary E. Lovely wetland views, but a bad place to build. Post quake Bexley had sunk into Avon River swamp mud, never mind quakemire, rising sea levels, climate change.
Seabreeze Cl post Feb 22 Killer Quake was worse than what I saw post Sept 4 Darfield Quake: Deserted; grey quakemire everywhere; pools on the cracked road; crumpled driveways; trashed, abandoned houses. Four EQC inspectors roamed. My snaps made up for those I'd missed 6 months before.
31.03.11. New stopbank / cycle track, between Bexley Wetland & Bexley Rd, national state of emergency
31.03.11. New stopbank between Bexley housing & Bexley Wetland, national state of emergency
31.03.11. Liquefaction boils in Bexley Wetland by new stopbank / cycle track, national state of emergency
31.03.11. Liquefaction boil in walkway between new Bexley Wetland stopbank & Bexley housing, Seabreeze Cl, national state of emergency
31.03.11. Feb 22 quake tilted house, Bexley Wetland, national state of emergency
31.03.11. New stopbank / cycle track, between Bexley Wetland & Bexley housing, national state of emergency
Seabreeze Cl: I circuted Bexley Wetland & Avon Estuary, along various roads & Morganwood St back to Seabreeze Cl: A new stopbank / cycle track snaked between Bexley Wetland & houses. Useless as tsunami protection, or Avon Estuary flooding. Risible against future quakemiring, Bexley Wetland already quakemired. Bexley roads I'd seen were all liquefactioned away from Avon River & Avon Estuary.
Post Sept 4 Darfield Quake, I'd seen the gravel footpath below the new stopbank liquefactioned & cracked, so future quakes would liquefaction the stopbank / cycle crack again. Engineers just dumped new shingle on top of the liquefactioned footpath. New standard for quake protection post Feb 22 Killer Quake? what were engineers thinking?
31.03.11. Feb 22 quake damaged house with huge quake crack in yard, Bexley Wetland, national state of emergency
31.03.11. Feb 22 quake, 6 foot wide crack in house yard, Bexley Wetland, national state of emergency
31.03.11. Yellow digger between old & new stopbanks, Bexley Wetland, national state of emergency
The heightened stopbank enabled walkers & cyclists to look straight into ghost houses lining Bexley Wetland, privacy nil for those staying post quake. Most houses abandoned: No children, no adults, no traffic.
Creepy feeling again: Silence, emptiness, aching air, fear that another quake would catch me near a bldg. Spooked by ghosts, I was super-aware of my closeness to unstable walls while trekking cordons. Ready to sprint. Some houses I passed were quake tilted, abandoned. One back yard had a 6 foot wide crack right across. Closer to Avon Estuary I came upon an older, smaller stopbank I'd trekked a year before.
Seabreeze Cl: New houses, swamped by quakemire: Sept 4 Darfield Quake, Feb 22 Killer Quake, later June 13 Quake. Giveaway, silt level on house walls / fences after silt excavations. Student gangs had dug away silt, together with mechanical diggers. Silt was quickly dumped, authorities hiding their sins. Houses were quake swamped, once, twice, thrice. No wonder Seabreeze Cl would be abandoned, red zoned: Cracked road, driveways. White plastic, water tank on 3 stacked, blue pallets. Orange digger parked nearby. Blue portaloos, quakemire heaps on pavements. Liquefaction dusty road, alleys. Liquefaction sodden carpets, house junk heaped roadside. Brown shipping container by one house, ready for relocation. Red, yellow, green lidded Council bins on pavements, driveways. Some driveways still liquefaction flooded, scattered grey puddles. Quake cracked concrete curbs. Concrete manhole casing pushed a foot above pavement level. Broken wooden fencing between houses. Fallen brick gate post...
31.03.11. White, plastic, water tank & orange digger, Seabreeze Cl, Bexley, national state of emergency
31.03.11. Feb 22 quake damaged Seabreeze Cl & blue portaloo, national state of emergency
31.03.11. Feb 22 liquefaction destroyed carpets & blue portaloo, Seabreeze Cl, Bexley, national state of emergency
31.03.11. EQC inspectors, off Seabreeze Cl, Bexley, national state of emergency
31.03.11. Sept 4 & Feb 22 quake trashed houses, Seabreeze Cl, Bexley, national state of emergency. See silt level on walls, fences, bin, after silt excavation
Seabreeze Cl sunk into Bexley Wetland: Harsh, sunny afternoon while trekking alone, snapping, spooked by ghost houses surrounded by grey quakemire, mostly cleared. Silt stains on fences, walls were about 1 foot high: 3-4 brick courses high!
31.03.11. Serial quake trashed housing, Seabreeze Cl, national state of emergency. See silt level on walls / fences after silt excavation
Feb 22 Killer Quake afternoon, for 2 hours at London St, I'd experienced aftershocks & silt oozing from liquefaction boils & volcanoes, while waiting with Leah & school staff for parents to pick up kids. Seabreeze Cl: I imagined silt oozing into houses, tilting houses into grey muck during Feb 22 aftershocks.
31.03.11. Serial quake trashed housing, Seabreeze Cl, national state of emergency. See silt level on walls / fences after silt excavation
Six months post Sept 4 Darfield Quake, 6 weeks post Feb 22 Killer Quake, I still got angry when thinking about Council consenters who'd allowed development at Seabreeze Cl & nearby roads, close to Bexley Wetland, Avon Estuary. All those councillors, planners, consenters, surveyors, architects, designers, drawing office bods, engineers, developers, builders, real estate agents, banks had much to answer for, ripping off home buyers. Never mind home buyers' due diligence.
31.03.11. Serial quake trashed housing, Seabreeze Cl, national state of emergency. See silt level on fences / walls after silt excavation
Velsheda St / Wetlands Gr: Yellow & blue portaloos on pavements. Road workers wearing Hi-Vis vests, hard hats did road repairs: yellow McClaren tractor with road scraper blade, yellow McClaren shingle truck, white Bobcat digger, white Interflow tanker, "Leaders in Pipeline Renewal." Contractors made megabucks patching Christchurch quake trashed roads: Sucking sludge, making shingle patches, tarseal patches, patches on patches, pothole patches, sinkhole patches, pipe excavation patches.
31.03.11. Yellow portaloo & Hi-Vis vested workman by white tanker, water blasting liquefaction silt out of road pipes, Velsheda St / Wetlands Gr, Bexley, national state of emergency
31.03.11. Blue portaloo, post Feb 22 quake road contractors repairing Velsheda St, Bexley, national state of emergency
Morganwood St by Harold Henry Park: A white, portable, power generator stood on the pavement. Like other Bexley streets, Morganwood St had quake damaged curbs, drains, pavements, driveways. Quakemire heaps, green, plastic, sewage tanks with white, hand sanitiser bottle & portaloos stood on pavements.
31.03.11. White generator on pavement, Morganwood St, national state of emergency
31.03.11. Feb 22 quake damaged curb & drain, Morganwood St, Bexley, national state of emergency
31.03.11. Green portaloo, Morganwood St, national state of emergency
31.03.11. Feb 22 quake damaged pavement & driveway, Morganwood St, national state of emergency
31.03.11. Liquefaction silt & green, plastic, sewage tank, Morganwood St / Wetlands Gr, Bexley, national state of emergency
Pages Rd: I crossed Pages Rd Bridge over open sewer, Avon River to Anzac Dr, to snap Feb 22 Killer Quake damage.
31.03.11. Feb 22 quake damaged roads, Pages Rd / Wairoa St, & abutment join to Pages Rd Bridge, national state of emergency
Pages Rd Bridge: Road cracked at abutment joins both sides of the bridge.
Pages Rd: Yellow portaloo, green, plastic, sewage tank on pavement opp Domino's Pizza ghost. Nearby houses, broken garden walls, cracked driveways, tilted garden gates, quakemire, brick rubble in gardens.
31.03.11. Yellow portaloo, Pages Rd by Domino's Pizza, national state of emergency
31.03.11. Feb 22 quake liquefactioned business nr Domino's Pizza, Pages Rd, national state of emergency. The business would be demolished
Onepu St: Road repairs progressing.
31.03.11. White water tanker spraying to lay liquefaction dust, Waitaki St / Pages Rd, national state of emergency
Waitaki St: Road repairs progressing, digger & truck parked in street. Shingle heap, quakemire heap in street. Post Sept 4 Darfield Quake, road flooded. I would return another day for snapping Pages Rd, Waitaki St, Bexley Rd quake damages.
31.03.11. Yellow portaloo, Kia Ora St / Pages Rd, national state of emergency
Kia Ora St: Road repairs progressing. Pages Rd houses between Kia Ora St & Bexley Rd were liquefactioned, silt everywhere. Two men dug silt from a garden, dumped barrow-loads onto the pavement. Snag with Council road works & silt digging: in future CERA, after delays, would red zone Bexley by Avon River, wasting all those house repairs & Council silt diggings. At that early CERA stage of my Bexley trek, there was no CERA red or green, residential zoning, homeowners were in limbo.
31.03.11. Fallen brick, garden wall. Feb 22 quake, liquefaction damaged houses, pavement & Pages Rd, Bexley, national state of emergency
Pages Rd / Bexley Rd: Orion power substation had an excavation trench with underground line repairs.
31.03.11. Post Feb 22 quake, Orion utility repairs, Pages Rd / Bexley Rd, national state of emergency
Pages Rd / Anzac Dr: Blue portaloo on pavement. Concrete block supported a tilted power pole. Dept of Corrections ghost, quakemire by the bldg, stone gate post tilted in deep mud. Like Probation Service bldg, Winston Ave, Dept of Corrections bldg, Pages Rd was closed.
Yellow wall, blue sign:
OFFICE CLOSED
Please report to
Nga Hau E Wha Marae
250 Pages Road
Freephone...
Dept of Corrections wall, orange, spray-painted, threat sign:
DANGER
KEEP OUT
The bldg would be demolished.
31.03.11. Quake tilted, stone, letterbox pillar. Feb 22 quake, liquefactioned bldg, Corrections Dept closed, Pages Rd, national state of emergency. Corrections Dept bldg would be demolished
31.03.11. DANGER KEEP OUT. Feb 22 quake cracked, Corrections Dept bldg, Pages Rd, national state of emergency. Corrections Dept bldg would be demolished
31.03.11. Feb 22 liquefaction silt heap. Concrete block supporting a quake tilted, power pole, Pages Rd / Anzac Dr, national state of emergency
31.03.11. Blue portaloo & Feb 22 liquefaction silt, Pages Rd / Anzac Dr, national state of emergency
Drove Pages Rd back to Porchester St, did a short, circular drive through Bexley.
Porchester St / Corhampton St junction: Wood braced house wall. 2 storey house, grey tiles displaced on roof. Road repairs progressing.
31.03.11. Quake damaged houses, Porchester St / Corhampton St junction, national state of emergency
Carisbrook St: Road repairs progressing.
Warblington St: Road repairs progressing.
31.03.11. Brown portaloo opp Seventh Day Adventist Church, Pages Rd, national state of emergency
31.03.11. Post Feb 22 quake kiosk, Seventh Day Adventist Church, Rowan Ave / Pages Rd, national state of emergency
Pages Rd / Rowan Ave: Brown portaloo on Pages Rd, opp Seventh Day Adventist Church, zig-zag cracked, concrete brick, cnr walls, plastic tape cordoned. Op shop alongside was open. In the church yard, the white, plastic tented, Recovery Information Kiosk was open, no one attending. Brown shipping container, green & blue portaloos behind. A white, plastic, water tank stood by the gate. Cardboard boxes lay on pallets, one plastic, water bladder left.
Water tank sign:
PLEASE TAKE A
MAXIMUM
OF 2 BLADDERS
THERE IS NO NEED TO STOCKPILE WATER
AS WE'LL BE HERE FOR A WHILE YET AND
WILL CONTINUE TO PROVIDE WATER FOR YOU
Bexley in shit: broken sewage pipes, broken water pipes.
31.03.11. Feb 22 quake, white, plastic, water tank, Rowan Ave, national state of emergency
Drove back to Burnside via Woodham Rd: In Linwood North School garden, a brown, plastic, water tank had white, spray-painted words: WATER BOIL B4 USE. Summarized our quaked water: Liquefaction boils, sewage & water mixing, water-borne disease threat.
31.03.11. Water Boil B4 Use. Post Feb 22 quake, brown, plastic, water tank, Linwood North School, Woodham Rd, national state of emergency
Woodham Rd / Gloucester St: Filled up with petrol at the BP garage. Snapped 2 storey, ghost shops, damaged in the Sept 4 Darfield Quake, trashed in the Feb 22 Killer Quake: Brick parapets fallen, roof spaces exposed, verandah awning part collapsed, back cnr walls collapsed on Gloucester St, awning, brick rubble on pavement, steel mesh fence, orange, plastic, road cone cordoned. Bakery ghost next door, brick parapet, side wall collapsed, steel mesh fence, orange, plastic, road cone cordoned. Shops would be demolished.
31.03.11. Steel mesh fence cordon. Sept 4 quake damaged, Feb 22 quake trashed old, brick bldg, Gloucester St / Woodham Rd, national state of emergency. The bldg would be demolished
31.03.11. Feb 22 quake damaged house, Woodham Rd, national state of emergency
31.03.11. Feb 22 quake, brick rubble & broken toilet, Woodham Rd, national state of emergency
Woodham Rd: White toilet bowl on brick rubble heap on roadside, 1 orange, plastic, road cone. 4 quake damaged houses: 1. Brick & wood rubble in garden. 2. Grey, 2 storey, wooden house, window boarded, brick rubble in garden. 3. Yellow, 2 storey, wooden house, garden wall, wood braced, white, plastic tape cordoned. 4. Demolished house, brick rubble heap in garden. Concrete, garden wall, orange spray-painted, threat sign:
KEEP CLEAR!!
DANGER KEEP OUT
Over the last 6 quake months, I'd passed many threat signs. Over the next 3 quake years I'd pass 1000's more. Authorities polluting Christchurch with threat signs! That would encourage graffiti galore.
31.03.11. Feb 22 quake demolition site, Woodham Rd, national state of emergency
Woodham Rd / Linwood Ave / Avonside Dr crossing: Improved since a few days before: sewage pipe hole, filled in, crossing at shingle repair stage. That would be road repairs pattern for years: patch jobs, interspersed with buckling, cracks, potholes, sinkholes, slumping, bumps, raised manholes, excavations, orange, plastic, road cones, steel mesh fence cordons, detours. Obstacle courses!
*Trekked Ferry Rd, Linwood Ave, Buckleys Rd, Pages Rd, Farnborough St, Wairoa St, Bexley Wetland, Seabreeze Cl, Velsheda St, Morganwood St, Woodham Rd. 195 snaps.
Coda:
Mon 30.01.12. CERA would begin demolitions on red zone houses at Seabreeze Cl & nearby streets, the first CERA house demolitions. Thereafter CERA would take its time demolishing red zone houses, as the deadline for people forced to leave their red zone houses would be April 2013. Over 7 000 red zone houses would tempt taggers, vagrants, hooligans, arsonists, thieves. CERA didn't help matters with its Landcheck website, an invitation for thieves to help themselves.
Later, CERA would allow demolition salvaging of sorts & allow cops & soldiers to play war games in red zone houses. Most red zone, demolished housing would end up in Burwood Dump, a giant, polluted dump near the Pacific, hidden by Bottle Lake Forest pines. Clean Green NZ?
Content & pics Copyright Mark JS Esslemont.
So sad. Thanks for the drive around pix.. Or walk ones.
ReplyDeleteWe went to a party at Seabreeze area twoyears ago. lovely house and nice area, but I did feel I could never buy on ex wetlands. Just felt wrong, before even thought of earthquakes. Mind you, I live on a river in Burwood/ Shirley, and in hindsight that could be risky too. We are lucky our high sandhill ridge has not liquefied.
Just struggling to comprehend the scale of the damage.
Mind boggling Fi. The more water the more quake damage it seems. Couple of months back I spoke to a woman who lives on a sandhill at Pines Beach. Her house was undamaged by the Sept quake, but flats houses below her house were badly liquefactioned at Pines Beach.
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