06.04.11. Feb 22 quake, Warning Contaminated Water sign, Heathcote River, Aynsley Tce, national state of emergency. Opawa Rd bridge backdrop
Like many Christchurch concrete bridges which survived the quake, Opawa Rd Bridge over Heathcote River was damaged at span & abutment joins, which knocked & spalled in quakes.
06.04.11. Steel mesh fence cordon. Feb 22 quake damaged Opawa Community Church Hall, Aynsley Tce, national state of emergency. The Hall would be demolished
12.11.11. Quake survivor, Opawa Community Church & church hall demolition site, seen from Heathcote River footbridge, Aynsley Tce
Aynsley Tce: Like so many Christchurch brick churches, Opawa Community Church was damaged by the Feb 22 Killer Quake. The brick hall looked like a missile had gone clean through, leaving gaping brick walls, front & back, exposed interior, bricks fallen from side walls, roof & ceiling intact, upheld by wooden beams, brick rubble heaps in church yard, steel mesh fence cordoned. The hall would be demolished. The church: cracked, brick, crenelated turret, exposed roof space, fallen bricks in garden, steel mesh fence cordoned. The church would survive the quakes.
Church board:
"God is closer than you think
'in God we live, move, & have our being.' Epimenides 600BC"
Graffiti above the sign read: USE THE DOOR NEXT TIME GOD!
06.04.11. Notice Board, Opawa Community Church, Aynsley Tce, national state of emergency
06.04.11. Steel mesh fence cordon. Feb 22 quake damaged Opawa Community Church, Aynsley Tce, national state of emergency
06.04.11. Feb 22 quake, sewage contaminated Heathcote River, Aynsley Tce, national state of emergency
Aynsley Tce: Sewage polluted, Heathcote River threat signs on the river bank: WARNING CONTAMINATED WATER, POLLUTED WATER PLEASE AVOID CONTACT. Aynsley Tce & side roads had portaloos on pavements, quakemire on pavements & curbs. A yellow, sewage tanker blasted water down a sewage pipe, clearing quakemire, but obstructing traffic weaving round the tanker. I'd seen many sewage tankers sucking & water blasting muck over the last few weeks. I called sewage tankers "sucker trucks".
06.04.11. Orange, plastic, road cone cordon. Feb 22 quake, green portaloo & yellow, sewage, water blast truck, Aynsley Tce, national state of emergency
06.04.11. Feb 22 quake, liquefaction silt & green portaloo, Aynsley Tce, national state of emergency
06.04.11. Feb 22 quake, liquefaction silt & black, plastic, sewage tank, Aynsley Tce, national state of emergency
Chill, autumn wind blew off Heathcote River while I pondered engineers' recent warnings that Christchurch sewage system was in bad shape, quakemire in sewage pipes & many broken pipes. After rains, storm water leaked into sewage pipes, household effluent & quakemire clogging quake stressed, Bromley treatment ponds. (One News 06.04.11). What happened to the vaunted, new sewage outlet pipe into the Pacific? Luke had recently spent a day on the beach, returning home with a guts ache. I warned him about sewage toxic beaches.
06.04.11. Feb 22 quake, cracked driveway, Aynsley Tce, national state of emergency
06.04.11. Feb 22 quake damaged house, Aynsley Tce, national state of emergency
06.04.11. Post Feb 22 quake, grey portaloo & green, plastic, sewage tank, Aynsley Tce, national state of emergency
06.04.11. Post Feb 22 quake, Polluted Water sign & footbridge over sewage polluted Heathcote River, Aynsley Tce, national state of emergency
06.04.11. Post Feb 22 quake, Aynsley stone gate post, Aynsley Tce, national state of emergency
06.04.11. Feb 22 quake damaged Aynsley Tce & retaining wall, national state of emergency
06.04.11. DANGER. Sept 4 quake damaged, Feb 22 quake trashed brick house, Aynsley Tce / Centaurus Rd, national state of emergency
06.04.11. DANGER KEEP OUT. White, plastic, tape cordon. Sept 4 quake damaged, Feb 22 quake trashed brick house, red stickered, Aynsley Tce / Centaurus Rd, national state of emergency
Aynsley Tce: Most houses survived the quakes well, small damages, driveway cracks. But the old, 2 storey, brick house, Aynsley Tce / Centaurus Rd, was damaged by the Sept 4 Darfield Quake & trashed by the Feb 22 Killer Quake, roof partially collapsed, again, roof space exposed, fallen brick gable, many wall cracks, house empty, red stickered, brick rubble on the garden slope, white plastic tape cordoned, DANGER KEEP OUT.
Gates, threat signs:
DANGER
CONSTRUCTION
SITE
UNAUTHORISED PERSONS
KEEP OUT
06.04.11. Feb 22 quake trashed, stone gate post, Centaurus Rd, national state of emergency
06.04.11. Fallen orange, plastic, fence cordon. Post Feb 22 quake, useless, house For Sale sign, Centaurus Rd, national state of emergency
06.04.11. Steel mesh fence cordon. Feb 22 quake, yellow digger demolishing a house, Centaurus Rd, national state of emergency
06.04.11. Feb 22 quake trashed house, red stickered, Centaurus Rd, national state of emergency
Centaurus Rd, up Glenelg Spur: Fallen concrete gate post, concrete bricks on pavement. Trashed housing: 1. 2 storey, brick house, red stickered, scaffolded. 2. A yellow digger parked on top of demolished house rubble. 3. Another 2 storey house, garage doors popped open, garage contents exposed, concrete brick wall cracked, fallen concrete bricks in garden, white, plastic, tape cordoned. 4. Fallen brick chimney, fallen brick gables, exposing attic. Threat sign:
DANGER
KEEP
CLEAR
06.04.11. White, plastic, tape cordon. Feb 22 quake damaged house, Centaurus Rd, national state of emergency. The house would be demolished
06.04.11. Feb 22 quake damaged roof, Centaurus Rd, national state of emergency
Down Glenelg Spur along Port Hills Rd: Smaller Hillsborough houses were damaged, quakemire on pavements & curbs.
Busy Opawa Rd: Big, concrete drain behind Port Hills Rd houses. Hillsborough Park, undamaged. Some older wooden houses, roof damages.
06.04.11. Steel mesh fence cordon. Open drain running behind Port Hills Rd houses, Opawa Rd, national state of emergency
Grange St: Quake damaged pavements, driveways & housing: 2 houses, brick walls, wood braced. I'd never buy a house in upmarket Aynsley Tce, nor Hillsborough, after seeing what damages quakes did between Port Hills & Heathcote River.
06.04.11. Post quake, wood braced house, Grange St, national state of emergency
07.04.11. Thurs, 3.57am, M4.0 quake, 11km deep, 10km E of Christchurch. (GeoNet). I was improving guesstimating quake magnitudes: M4.0 & upwards shook my computer monitor, unnerving, warning me to vamoose! Anything less, ignored.
*Trekked Aynsley Tce, Centaurus Rd, Port Hills Rd, Opawa Rd, Grange St. 46 snaps.
Content & pics Copyright Mark JS Esslemont.
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