Up Front: Floodland
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Hebe, in reply to
Serious. The CCC and CDEM have met this morning. Here's the link; make of it what you will:
http://ccc.govt.nz/thecouncil/newsmedia/mediareleases/2014/201403131.aspxRight on cue an epic Ecan fail. During this morning's meeting -- trying to avert a replay of last week's flooding during the forecast torrential rain and gales for this weekend -- Ecan warns it will be checking your chimney. With technology. Fuck is not sweary enough.
http://www.rebuildchristchurch.co.nz/blog/2014/3/focus-on-older-wood-burners-this-winter
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Lilith __, in reply to
The MetVUW forecast chart for 1pm Sunday. Shit. Please stay safe, my friends.
Fuckkity fuck fuck.
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Fingers crossed it’s not as bad as predicted, although then it’d be worry wasted, so no winners :(
I blame the Governors Bay Community Assoc for scheduling the community fete on Sunday 16th. They have a track record for picking bad weather, but never this bad.Also: ECan can shove their regulatory powers up their own log-burners. When we get to vote, you get to regulate. Legal power maybe but no moral power. at. all.
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Hebe, in reply to
I blame the Governors Bay Community Assoc for scheduling the community fete on Sunday 16th.
Next time please let me know as soon as the date is set.
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If it wasn't likely to cause hardship to other people, I could find myself hoping for enough rain to flood our house again. We're not planning on going back and I can't help wondering if a few more floods would help council and insurance hurry that along.
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Hebe, in reply to
Thinking like that is completely understandable Isabel. If the storms last week and this had not happened, there would be no urgency from the council staff, government and insurers to find an acceptable solution.
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Hebe,
Seems the draft Distict Plan is out today. The Chch City Council's proposed expanded Flood Management Area in the draft District Plan, out for comment now. http://resources.ccc.govt.nz/files/TheCouncil/policiesreportsstrategies/districtplanning/districtplanreview/dprexistingandproposedfloodmanagementareamarch2014.pdf
A whole lot more info about the natural hazards parts of the draft District Plan: http://www.ccc.govt.nz/thecouncil/policiesreportsstrategies/districtplanning/districtplanreview/ourdistrictplanreview/naturalhazards.aspx
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Hebe,
This piece is a huge relief for us. John McCrone is finally able to pull all the threads together to make a sensible whole of all the confusing-to-a-non-professional details on quake house repairs, consents, flood zones, consents, strategies, what's permissible, what's not. [For some reason it is in the business section rather than features.]
It means that 55,000 houses already repaired under "don't worry; we'll sort it" (quote from our PMO when asked about foundation repair and how it could be scoped when no-one had gone under the house to look) are repaired unconsented. My understanding is that consent is needed for 20pc foundation repairs - not 50pc.
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Hebe,
I meant to say "a good proportion of the 55,000 EQR [Fletchers] repairs": that is all those with foundation damage -- of which I don't know the figures -- it is a common form of damage on this side of town,
Suffice to say: if you're buying in Christchurch, get a thorough building inspection done, especially sub-floor.
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Lilith __, in reply to
That’s an interesting and rather terrifying article.
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Hebe, in reply to
That’s an interesting and rather terrifying article.
John McCrone did a great job putting everyone's point of view.
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Moz, in reply to
Suffice to say: if you're buying in Christchurch, get a thorough building inspection done, especially sub-floor.
Download and watch some "Holmes Inspection" the Canadian TV series. Their foundation problems are normally in-ground basements with frost issues, but the general picture that you have to do a bit of research into what to expect from a home inspector and how the sort of house you're looking at usually fails is there. I'd really like something like that here.
In Australia the real estate industry gets around that problem by focussing on auction sales and not allowing independent inspections before the auction. Afterwards... well, you already agreed to buy it at that price, and you can't bid "subject to inspection".
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I own a house in the flood zone and don't trust the Council to do anything about their drainage problem that is affecting us rate payers in such a serious way. I hear wind of a meeting for affected parties in the area but have not received any information. Can anyone assist. Cheers. Geoff Hill
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Hebe, in reply to
Go to one of the natural hazards meetings about the district plan (see CCC website) and ask. What area? Flockton plans seem to be well under way; Heathcote River area zilch that I know of.
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New Chchch flood risk management map released.
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We may need to re-think some parts the city.
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Hebe, in reply to
Interesting; thanks Rob. So many layers to this.
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
We may need to re-think some parts the city.
The creeks near us (Dudley and others) are already over their banks today, and that's just steady rain, nothing torrential... it won't take much more to go wide.
Why they don't see this coming is beyond me, the vast alluvial Canterbury Plains were laid down by the ongoing coast building processes (braided rivers ) once you stop that happening in an area (ie a built environment/city) it must compact, and then subtract silt and 'liquefacted' solids in suspension, voila further slumping, before ya know the whole city is in a hole!
(which explains why archaeology always requires digging...)Back in the '90s I laid out a series of secondary school text books on Natural Hazards in New Zealand (for Action Publications) - they clearly listed Canterbury as a very high earthquake risk and laid out the inevitable flood problems - I assume someone up the foodchain put it all in the 'too hard' or 'someone else's problem' basket!
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