Welcome to the Midnight Collective Broadsheet 113
Actively
supporting NZ’s endangered wetland birds
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| Barrier breached... |
The
Indian summer that stretched into mid-autumn is now over and after steady rain
overnight and a Saturday morning downpour, we now have a seasonal flood that
has swept through the Wharemauku creek and inundated new earthworks around the partially
completed expressway bridge.
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| Wharemauku flooding at the beach end -midday |
This
isn’t as big as last year’s May flood,
but up there amongst the top three or four of the last few years, having
swamped the pathway in two places while catching the NZTA napping.
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| Pollution monitor on normal day |
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| Pollution monitor at midday |
They
had diverted the Wharemauku creek around their new bridge construction but then
recently closed this off with a couple of steel plates which sent the creek
back onto its original course. They had earthed up one end, but left the other
while pumping water from the diversion into the creek.
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| NZTA employs a sisyphus pump |
As you can see from
the photos below the entire work site has now been back filled by the flooding
creek.
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| What a mess! |
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| What a mess 2 |
They
rushed a couple of diggers down to the site to try and shore it up but too late
to close it off. This area is due to be earthworked over as an approach to the
bridge, but is now a real mess.
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| View looking west down Wharemauku to coast |
And there’s more rain forecast for later today.
We’ll
keep you posted.
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| Pollution funnelling up from new installation |
Track
we were listening to while posting this - It has to be Bessie Smith once again and
Backwater Blues
When it rains five days and the skies turn dark as night
When it rains five days and the skies turn dark as night
Then trouble's takin' place in the lowlands at night
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