Kerrs Reach Rowing Clubs & Porritt Park

Kerrs Reach focus. 01.06.11. Fourteen weeks post 22 February 2011 Quake, M6.3, I drove across Gayhurst Rd Bridge & along Avonside Dr to see Kerrs Reach rowing clubhouses. Steel-mesh-fence-cordons across damaged Avonside Dr detoured me along Kerrs Rd to Kerrs Reach.


01.06.11. Feb 22 quake damaged Gayhurst Rd / Locksley Ave & Gayhurst Rd Bridge

Avonside Dr by Avon Rowing Club: The club carpark was damaged by the 4 September 2010 Quake & ruined by the 22 February 2011 Quake: huge cracks. Cracking & slumping was caused by lateral-spreading of Avon River bank. A green-plastic-sewage-tank stood near the carpark by the Avon River bend.


01.06.11. Steel mesh fence cordon. Feb 22 quake damaged, semi-detached houses, Kerrs Rd




I snapped ruined-houses on Kerrs Rd & Avonside Dr, then snapped the five rowing clubhouses. I'd seen some cracks, riverbank slumping & clubhouse damage post 4 September 2010 Quake, but the 22 February 2011 Quake trashed Kerrs Reach riverbank & five clubhouses. Avon Rowing Club, Union Rowing Club, Christ's College Rowing would be demolished then rebuilt.


01.06.11. Feb 22 quake damaged garden wall, Kerrs Rd / Avonside Dr


01.06.11. Feb 22 quake, Kerrs Rd view, Avonside Dr steel mesh fence cordon


01.06.11. Feb 22 quake, green, plastic, sewage tank by Avon Rowing Club, Kerrs Reach. Avon Rowing Club would be demolished & rebuilt


01.06.11. Feb 22 quake, CONTAMINATED WATER threat sign, Avon River bend, Kerrs Reach. Locksley Ave backdrop

Kerrs Reach: Avon River bank by the five clubhouses was slumped, leaving some cracks at least two metres wide, big bank chunks were sunk into cracks.


01.06.11. Feb 22 quake, Rowing Clubs wooden sign, Kerrs Reach, survived quakes & aftershocks, despite nearby roads & club houses damaged


01.06.11. Steel mesh fence cordon. Feb 22 quake cracks behind Avon Rowing Club, shipping container & 2 orange  portaloos. Avon Rowing Club would be demolished & rebuilt, Kerrs Reach


01.06.11. Post quakes tagging. Feb 22 quake damaged entrance, Union Rowing Club, Kerrs Reach. Union Rowing Club would be fire razed, demolished & rebuilt

Concrete-slabs around clubhouses were cracked, widely separated & tilted, some tilted a couple of feet in the air. Clubhouses were closed & red-stickered. Only signs of clubhouse life were waterfowl crapping on pontoons. Confusing CCC red-stickers AND yellow-stickers for the 4 September 2010 Quake were on Union Rowing Club door. Red-sticker: UNSAFE DO NOT ENTER OR OCCUPY. Yellow-sticker: RESTRICTED USE NO ENTRY EXCEPT ON ESSENTIAL BUSINESS. Take your pick!


01.06.11. Feb 22 quake separated concrete by quake damaged Avon Rowing Club, would be demolished & rebuilt, Kerrs Reach


01.06.11. Steel mesh fence cordon. Feb 22 quake sunk Avon Rowing Club, would be demolished & rebuilt, Kerrs Reach


01.06.11. Feb 22 quake sunk Union Rowing Club & pontoons. Union Rowing Club would be fire razed, demolished & rebuilt, Kerrs Reach


01.06.11. Feb 22 quake damaged Union Rowing Club & Avon Rowing Club & waterfowl fouled pontoons. Both Clubs would be demolished & rebuilt, Kerrs Reach


01.06.11. Feb 22 quake damaged Union Rowing Club & Avon Rowing Club, Kerrs Reach. Both Clubs would be demolished & rebuilt


01.06.11. Feb 22 quake damaged Union Rowing Club, liquefaction mud & quake separated concrete. Union Rowing Club would be fire razed, demolished & rebuilt, Kerrs Reach


01.06.11. Feb 22 quake cracked footpath by rowing clubs, Kerrs Reach. Cracks were due to lateral spreading


01.06.11. Feb 22 quake damaged Canterbury Rowing Club & Arawa Canoe Club, Kerrs Reach



01.06.11. Feb 22 quake, liquefaction mud by quake damaged Canterbury Rowing Club, Kerrs Reach


Clubhouse damages: cracked-walls, broken-windows, tilted window-frames, boarded-windows & boarded-doors, walls sunk into riverside-mud, quakemire heaped by one clubhouse.


01.06.11. Orange portaloo by Feb 22 quake damaged Arawa Canoe Club, Kerrs Reach



01.06.11. Feb 22 quake damaged Christ's College Rowing, Kerrs Reach. Christ's College Rowing would be demolished & rebuilt







01.06.11. Feb 22 quake, Christ's College Rowing view, quake damaged stands & Arawa Canoe Club, Kerrs Reach. Christ's College Rowing would be demolished & rebuilt


01.06.11. Feb 22 quake sunk Christ's College Rowing, Kerrs Reach. Christ's College Rowing would be demolished & rebuilt






01.06.11. Feb 22 quake cracks by Christ's College Rowing, Kerrs Reach. Cracks were caused by lateral spreading


01.06.11. Feb 22 quake, steel mesh fence cordoned footbridge, Porritt Park polluted stream by Christ's College Rowing, Kerrs Reach. Avonside Dr across the footbridge, which would be demolished & rebuilt


01.06.11. Feb 22 quake cracks, Arawa Canoe Club, Kerrs Reach. Cracks were caused by lateral spreading



01.06.11. Feb 22 quake, Arawa Canoe Club view, quake slumping, damaged footpath & rowing club houses, Kerrs Reach. Riverside slumping was due to lateral spreading



01.06.11. Feb 22 quake slumping & cracked footpath by Arawa Canoe Club. Locksley Ave backdrop, Kerrs Reach. Slumping & cracks were due to lateral spreading


01.06.11. Feb 22 quake cracked footpath by rowing clubs, Kerrs Reach. Cracks were caused by lateral spreading


01.06.11. Post Feb 22 quake, pontoon shag, Kerrs Reach

Besides sewage-polluted Avon River, CONTAMINATED WATER threat-signs were on riverbanks & graffiti polluted clubhouse walls. Red DANGER threat- signs were scrawled on some boards. A clubhouse door red-sticker: "Extremely Unsafe"


01.06.11. Feb 22 quake damaged entrance, Union Rowing Club, Kerrs Reach. Union Rowing Club would be demolished & rebuilt



01.06.11. Feb 22 quake, red & yellow stickers, Union Rowing Club, Kerrs Reach



01.06.11. Feb 22 quake, shipping container & 2 orange portaloos, quake damaged back of Avon Rowing Club, Kerrs Reach. Avon Rowing Club would be demolished & rebuilt



01.06.11. Orange, plastic, road cone cordon. Sept 4 quake cracks, carpark road behind Kerrs Reach rowing clubs. Avonside Dr beyond

Beneath willows, the bridge across Avon River loop around Porritt Park was fence-cordoned. The loop was muddy & polluted. Kerrs Reach side, I snapped Porritt Park hockey-stadium ruin & its ruined astroturf: lumpy, bumpy, damaged by the 4 September 2010 Quake, trashed by the 22 February 2011 Quake. Quakemire I snapped through the carpark gate had burst through the astroturf.


01.06.11. Sept 4 & Feb 22 quake damaged Porritt Park, Hockey Stadium


01.06.11. Feb 22 quake damaged house, Avonside Dr / Kerrs Rd


01.06.11. Feb 22 quake damaged house, Avonside Dr, nr Porritt Park


I trekked around Porritt Park ruin via Avonside Dr & Wainoni Rd, stopping to snap ruined-houses on Avonside Dr behind the hockey-stadium. One house was tilted into mud: broken garage, cracked driveway.

Through willows by the Avon Loop I saw the liquefactioned paddock by Porritt Park hockey-stadium: masses of mud-mounds seen. A stopbank was made by the loop on Avonside Dr to stop flooding.


01.06.11. Feb 22 quake damaged driveway, Avonside Dr, Porritt Park


01.06.11. Feb 22 quake damaged house, Avonside Dr, Porritt Park





01.06.11. Feb 22 quake damaged, boarded house, Avonside Dr, Porritt Park



01.06.11. Feb 22 quake damaged house & garage, Avonside Dr, Porritt Park







Wainoni Rd: CONTAMINATED WATER. By shops, a red roadside-pump, pumped sludge into the Avon loop. Beneath willows, white foam bubbled, swirling in sewagestinking water, meandering towards Avon River. A grinning bloke on the footpath said, "Porritt Park's fucked!" I agreed.


01.06.11. Feb 22 quake, red, roadside pump, Porritt Park stream, Wainoni Rd



01.06.11. Feb 22 quake, sewage polluted Porritt Park stream, Wainoni Rd




01.06.11. Feb 22 quake, CONTAMINATED WATER threat sign, Porritt Park stream & liquefaction mud, Porritt Park paddock, Avonside Dr


19.07.11. Quake tilted power pole. Feb 22 quake & June 13 quake, liquefactioned, damaged houses, Avonside Dr, opp Porritt Park







01.06.11. Feb 22 quake, steel mesh fence cordoned footbridge over Porritt Park polluted stream, by Christ's College Rowing, Avonside Dr. Christ's College Rowing & the footbridge would be demolished & rebuilt, Kerrs Reach




*Trekked Gayhurst Rd, Kerrs Rd, Kerrs Reach, Porritt Park, Wainoni Rd, Avonside Dr. 111 snaps.

Coda:

The Weekend Press, 4-5.06.11 reported seismologists confirming evidence of the Greendale Fault, Port Hills Fault & offshore-faults near Ashley River. Also found: two faults through Christchurch-CBD, parallel to the Port Hills Fault. An active-fault was found in Pegasus Bay opposite Kaiapoi, no tsunami danger. Possible small offshore-faults by New Brighton, Port Levy, Pigeon Bay.

Offshore? (Would later cause the 23 December 2011 Xmas Quake Swarm).

Seismologists missed the Banks Peninsula Fault from Sumner to Pigeon Bay, which would soon cause another M6.3 quake on 13 June 2011, causing more damage & liquefaction to Christchurch. Seismologists were wise post-quakes, but unable to predict quakes. (September 2019. With workmates, Luke would renovate a wooden farmhouse at Pigeon Bay. 2022. Luke would renovate a barn on the same Pigeon Bay property).

The point about Kerrs Reach rowing clubhouse ruins & Porritt Park hockey-stadium ruin & nearby ruined-housing was that CERA hadn't yet red-zoned properties as irrevocably damaged, nor had the 13 June 2011 Quake struck yet! That quake would cause more damages & people despairing after four major quakes: 4 September 2010 Quake, Boxing Day Quake, 22 February 2011 Quake, 13 June 2011 Quake.

Kerrs Reach & Porritt Park were two sports areas ruined by quakes: rowing & hockey. There were more: QE11 Park athletics, swimming & cricket; AMI Stadium rugby; Wilding Park tennis...

Content & pics Copyright Mark JS Esslemont.