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 ruined by the 22 February 2011 quake. The brick-hall looked like a missile had gone clean through, leaving gaping brick-walls. Exposed interior. Bricks fallen from side-walls. Roof & ceiling was intact, upheld by wooden-beams. Brick rubble-heaps in churchyard, steel-mesh-fence-cordoned. The hall would be demolished. The church: cracked, brick, crenellated-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 by sewage-polluted Heathcote River: Threat-signs on the riverbank: WARNING CONTAMINATED WATER, POLLUTED WATER PLEASE AVOID CONTACT. Aynsley Tce & side-roads had portaloos on footpaths, quakemire on footpaths & curbs. A yellow sewage-tanker blasted water down a sewage-pipe, clearing quakemire, but obstructing traffic which weaved round the tanker. I'd seen many sewage-tankers sucking muck & 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
A chilly 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 stressed Bromley treatment-ponds. (One News 06.04.11). What happened to the vaunted, new sewage-outlet pipe into the Pacific? Luke 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, two-storey brick house, Aynsley Tce / Centaurus Rd, was damaged by the 4 September 2010 quake & ruined by the 22 February 2011 quake: roof partially collapsed, again, roof-space exposed, fallen brick-gable, many wall-cracks, house empty, red-stickered, brick-rubble on the garden slope, DANGER KEEP OUT white-plastic-barrier-tape-cordoned.
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 footpath. Trashed housing: 1. Two-storey brick-house, red- stickered, scaffolded. 2. A yellow-digger parked atop demolished house rubble. 3. Another two-storey house, garage-doors popped open, garage- contents exposed, concrete brick-wall cracked, fallen concrete-bricks in garden, white-plastic-barrier-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 footpaths & curbs.
Busy Opawa Rd: Big concrete-drain behind Port Hills Rd houses. Hillsborough Park, undamaged. Some older wooden-houses had 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: broken-footpaths, broken-driveways, broken-housing: two houses: brick-walls were wood-braced. I'd never buy a house in upmarket Aynsley Tce, nor Hillsborough, after seeing quake-damages 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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