CERA Landcheck website, land status of Avonside Dr, Avondale:
126 properties, 21 green-zone, 105 red-zone, 83% red-zone. Thus home-owners of most of that section of Avonside Dr by Avon River had to leave their houses, restarting elsewhere.
25.01.12. Quake sunk Avondale Rd Bridge abutment, post 23.12.11 quake swarm. The abutment would be fixed 2012-2013
Avondale Rd Bridge: I snapped bridge-damage where a concrete bridge-abutment on the riverbank leaned at an odd angle causing traffic sloping when crossing the bridge. (Ski-jump-effect). Quakes caused the bridge-abutment to sink into Avon River mud. I'd seen that damage to several Avon River bridges. As Council was responsible for fixing infrastructure, when would Council would get around to fixing bridge-damages? The abutment would be fixed by SCIRT, 2012-2013.
Council sign near Avondale Rd Bridge:
Stronger Christchurch
Permanent sewer and road reconstruction
Avondale Road and surrounds
Expect delays next 2 km
July 2011 - April 2012
Thank you for your patience...
25.01.12. Quake damaged, red zone house, Avonside Dr, post 23.12.11 quake
Avonside Dr: Red-zone ruined-houses & overgrown-gardens by Avon River. Some houses were tilted, sunk into grey-quakemire. All houses along Avonside Dr from Avondale Rd to Porritt Park corner by Kerrs Reach were red-zoned by CERA.
25.01.12. Quake damaged, red zone house, Avonside Dr, post 23.12.11 quake swarm
25.01.12. Grey portaloo, blue water pipe, liquefaction mud, green, plastic, sewage tank, red zone Avonside Dr, post 23.12.11 quake swarm
25.01.12. Quake damaged, red zone house, Avonside Dr, post 23.12.11 quake swarm
Some houses were inhabited, one property had people living in a front-yard caravan. Some home-owners kept up appearances with neat gardens. I snapped some house demolition-sites.
25.01.12. Quake damaged, red zone house, Avonside Dr, post 23.12.11 quake swarm
I trekked past weedy quakemired-driveways all ruined. I passed rubbish: a tyre, a wheelbarrow, a suitcase, aluminium cans, paper cups, plastic security-tape, metal... Many garage-door bases were sunk in mud. I trekked muddy, dusty footpaths & passed warped-gates, some locked. I passed skewed letterboxes & green-plastic-sewage-tanks, or black-plastic-sewage-tanks, colourful portaloos & blue-plastic water-pipes half buried in grey-quakemire.
25.01.12. Quake damaged, red zone house, Avonside Dr, post 23.12.11 quake swarm
25.01.12. Orange, plastic, road cones, steel mesh fence cordon. Post Feb 22 quake, raised Avon River stopbank, red zone Avonside Dr, post 23.12.11 quake swarm
25.01.12. Quake slumped Avon River bank, red zone Avonside Dr. New Brighton Rd on opp bank, post 23.12.11 Xmas Quake Swarm. Slumping due to lateral spreading.
Kerrs Reach rowers trained on sewage-polluted Avon River: some single kayaks, some single sculls, double sculls & couple of big boats with four rowers & cox per boat. Two coaches cycled on the stopbank, calling on loudhailers. What infectious substances did rowers & coaches absorb from sewage?
25.01.12. Double sculls training, Kerrs Reach, Avon River, seen from Avonside Dr, post 23.12.11 quake swarm
After 17 months of quakes, Council needed to pull-finger, as eastern suburb ratepayers were living in dusty, muddy, portaloo-squalor, while councillors squabbled.
25.01.12. Green, plastic, sewage tank. Quake damaged, red zone housing & caravan, Avonside Dr, post 23.12.11 quake swarm
25.01.12. Quake cracked & slumped Avon River bank, Avonside Dr, post 23.12.11 quake swarm. New Brighton Rd on opp bank. Cracking & slumping due to lateral spreading
Across Avon River, I saw sandbags beside New Brighton Rd near Horseshoe Lake outlet where the road had sunk below river level. A small digger & truck were parked by roadside repairs on Avon River bank near Burwood School. (2014. Burwood School would merge with Windsor School, a revamped school named Waitakiri Primary School, Burwood Rd: New premises, 2016.)
25.01.12. Red zone, Avonside Dr view, scullers on Avon River by Horseshoe Lake outlet. Sandbags on opp bank, New Brighton Rd, post 23.12.11 quake swarm
25.01.12. Red zone, Avonside Dr view, blue digger, white truck on New Brighton Rd by Avon River, post 23.12.11 quake swarm
25.01.12. Quake damaged, red zone house, Avonside Dr, post 23.12.11 quake swarm
Avonside Dr: Cracked, potholed, barely fixed in places with tarseal-patches & shingle. Along Avonside Dr, the post 22 February 2011 Quake raised stopbank on Avon River bank had hardened, forming a stony-wall.
25.01.12. Red zone Avonside Dr view, 4 rowers & cox, Kerrs Reach, Avon River, post 23.12.11 quake swarm
25.01.12. Slumped concrete bench. Red zone, Avonside Dr view, quake slumped Avon River bank, post 23.12.11 quake swarm. New Brighton Rd on opp bank.
25.01.12. Red zone, liquefactioned, Avonside Dr cnr. Avon River raised stopbank behind, post 23.12.11 quake swarm
25.01.12. Liquefactioned, red zone house, blue water pipe, Avonside Dr, post 23.12.11 quake swarm
Below the stopbank, Avon River bank had slumped, with deep cracks, in places 1m wide, more than 1m deep. Slumping, cracking, due to lateral- spreading. River rubbish & tilted-benches on concrete-slabs lay higgledy-piggledy on the trashed riverbank. Ducks & black swans swam in sewage-polluted Avon River.
25.01.12. Slumped concrete benches. Avonside Dr, red zone, stopbank view, quake slumped, Avon River bank, kayakers & rowers, post 23.12.11 Xmas Quake swarm. Locksley Ave on opp bank
25.01.12. Quake damaged, red zone house, Avonside Dr, post 23.12.11 quake swarm
25.01.12. Red zone, house demolition site, quake damaged house, Avonside Dr, post 23.12.11 quake swarm
25.01.12. Red zone, Avonside Dr, stopbank view, quake slumped Avon River bank, Kerrs Reach, post 23.12.11 quake swarm. Locksley Ave on opp bank
Considering how solid concrete-benches & / or iron-benches & wooden-benches & their concrete-slab bases where sunk & displaced by quakes all along Avon River banks, TC3 green / blue-zoners were conned by engineers into paying for thicker concrete-slab foundations for damaged house-foundations, as concrete-slabs hadn't proved effective against serial-liquefactions. Those thicker concrete-slab house-foundations would still crack, slump or tilt as in previous quakes.
In future, whatever concrete-foundations engineers concocted, future liquefactions would sink housing, similar to 2010-2011 sinkings, as so much quakemire spurted above ground during quakes, causing land-settlement. Simple solution: Stop building on swamps! But that was no solace for 28 000 TC3 green-zoned property owners subject to more liquefactions in future quakes. Never mind new CBD buildings to be build on swampland in the red-zone CBD above Christchurch Fault!
25.01.12. Red zone, liquefactioned Avonside Dr / Edna St, post 23.12.11 quake swarm
25.01.12. Quake damaged, red zone house, blue water pipe, Avonside Dr / Edna St, post 23.12.11 quake swarm
25.01.12. Red zone, tanker spraying water on liquefaction dust, Edna St, post 23.12.11 quake swarm
25.01.12. Quake damaged, red zone house, Avonside Dr, post 23.12.11 quake swarm
25.01.12. Red zone, Avon River, stopbank, green portaloo, Avonside Dr, post 23.12.11 quake swarm
25.01.12. Quake damaged, red zone house, blue water pipe, Avonside Dr, post 23.12.11 quake swarm
25.01.12. City Care van by Avon River, stopbank, red zone, Avonside Dr, post 23.12.11 quake swarm
25.01.12. Liquefactioned, red zone house, Avonside Dr / Niven St, post 23.12.11 quake swarm
25.01.12. Red zone, Avon River, stopbank, blue truck, Avonside Dr / Niven St, post 23.12.11 quake swarm
25.01.12. Red zone, quake tilted, power pole & Avon River stopbank, Avonside Rd / Breezes Rd, post 23.12.11 quake swarm
25.01.12. Quake damaged, red zone housing, Avonside Dr, post 23.12.11 quake swarm
Across Avon River by Locksley Ave, I saw a red-zone fire-destroyed house (which I'd passed months before) & several boarded-windows on red-zone ruined-houses. When would CERA demolish those Locksley Ave & Avonside Dr ruined-houses?
25.01.12. Quake damaged, red zone housing, Avonside Dr, post 23.12.11 quake swarm
25.01.12. Quake damaged, red zone house, Avonside Dr, post 23.12.11 quake swarm
25.01.12. Red zone, Avonside Dr view, Christs College Rowing demolition site & Arawa Canoe Club, Kerrs Reach, Avon River, post 23.12 11 quake swarm. Christs College Rowing would be rebuilt
25.01.12. Quake damaged, red zone house, Avonside Dr, nr Porritt Park, post 23.12.11 quake swarm
*Trekked Avondale Rd, Avonside Dr, Edna St, Niven St, Breezes Rd. 195 snaps.
Avonside Dr: Vehicles bumped along: Cars, SUVS, trucks, a tanker spraying water laying dust, a sucker-truck, a City Care van. The latter a misnomer, considering greedy comments & contempt for ratepayers by town clerk Marryatt about his recent Council approved $68 000 pay-rise giving him $540 000 annual salary. Marryatt earned more than NZ PM, UK PM, USA President! Mayor Parker & sycophant councillors Button, Wells, Keown, Corbett, Reid, Gough had approved Marryatt's astronomical salary!
17 months post 4 September 2010 Quake: Since 2007, town clerk Marryatt oversaw Christchurch infrastructure repairs. Marryatt's performance so far:
Dodgy sewage-system, especially eastern suburbs. Sewage-polluted Christchurch rivers.
Dodgy water-supply, especially eastern suburbs.
Dodgy electricity-supply, eastern suburbs.
Badly repaired roads, footpaths, bridges & drains throughout Christchurch.
Opening of Council buildings for many months post 22 February 2011 Quake, like Fendalton & Bishopdale libraries, then closing libraries for safety reasons.
Dodgy quake-insurance of Council assets, like AMI Stadium & Town Hall.
During 17 months of quakes so far, no matter how many good workers Marryatt managed, many quake-victims in Christchurch endured slummy, muddy, dusty conditions, shopped in dangerous places, drove dangerous roads, paid rates for curtailed services, like closed libraries, closed swimming pools, crap infrastructure, including water-tankers, footpath portaloos, footpath plastic-sewage-tanks.
To date, Marryatt hadn't appeared at the Royal Commission of Inquiry, explaining why Council employees / contractors messed pre-quakes buildings' safety, as some building collapsed in the 22 February 2011 Quake. (Engineer inspections of buildings were variable post 4 September 2010 Quake & 26 December 2010 Quake: confused red-stickers, green-stickers, yellow-stickers for building access). Council under Marryatt's quake-watch had five months post 4 September 2010 Quake (including Boxing Day Quake warning) to sort out engineering inspections & coloured stickers for buildings! And cordon dangerous buildings.!Too many dangerous buildings were used, not forbidden, not cordoned properly during Marryatt's quake-watch.
Eleven months post 22 February 2011 Quake, Christchurch CBD was still cordon-closed. As CERA boss Sutton earned a salary similar to Marryatt's, why were those two bosses of CERA & Council not working together to demolish damaged buildings, day & night, to start rebuilding quicker?
As many red-zoners, orange-zoners, green-zoners in eastern suburbs still lived in Third World squalor, in broken-houses, with muddy, dusty, poorly repaired roads, bad sewage-connections & poor water-supply, why were Marryatt's City Care workers & contractors not working day & night to get suburban infrastructure sorted asap? Why did Marryatt deserve $540 000 p.a. salary?
Friday 27.01.12. TV news announced that NZ National government appointed Crown Observer, Kerry Marshall would keep watch on Christchurch's dysfuntional Council. Priority for 2012: Christchurch's post-quake rebuild. Not internecine squabbles between councillors & town-clerk Marryatt.
After a closed Council meeting with MPs Smith & Brownlee, it was announced that town-clerk Marryatt had rejected his $68 000 pay-rise, approved by mayor Parker & six councillors, with the proviso by Maryatt that he'd reject the pay-rise only if councillors worked together! Never mind $34 000 increase he'd already been paid. (Ten months later, by mid November Marryatt still hadn't repaid the pay-rise he'd promised to pay back despite improvement in councillors' / Marryatt's so-called "colleague" relations).
Marryatt & Parker wanted to gag councillors, stopping them leaking Marryatt's & Parker's doings to the media. That evolved after Marryatt had already accepted the pay-rise causing widespread ratepayers' criticism & a citizens' protest held at the Council building, Hereford St, midday, 01.02.12.
Fri 27.01.12. 8.42pm, M4.6 quake, 11km depth, 30km west of Christchurch (GeoNet). Disturbed our supper.
Weekend Press 4-5 February, 2012, would report on red-zone, Avonside Dr & the limbo-existence of Retreat Rd orange-zoners living opposite red-zoners on the same street! Red-zoners could negotiate with CERA / NZ National government & / or insurers about payouts, while orange-zoners awaited slow CERA decisions to red-zone or green-zone their properties. Why did CERA / NZ National government only use one slow geotech company, Tonkin & Taylor, to do land-zonings?
During quake-times, 2012 would be the year of public protests against top-down edicts by Council & NZ National government.
Content & pics Copyright Mark JS Esslemont.
See Marryatt may refuse $68 000 rise (The Press / Stuff Co).
See Marryatt may keep $34 000 (The Press / Stuff Co).
See Council warned as Marryatt rejects pay rise (The Press / Stuff Co).
See Anger in a city dispossessed (The Press / Stuff Co).
See Adrift in limbo land (Stuff Co / The Press).
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