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I’ve been adaptively re-using this website…. its been going for years !
Well, I’ll certainly be there…
But not if I am going to be the only one there….
Anyone going ? I’m keen ! See you there ?
Oh give us a break !!! https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360974054/two-waves-wild-weather-nz-set-rain-wind-and-rough-weekend I’ve had enough of this shit !
Yay for managerialist micro-management. /S
Oh please!! Who are they trying to kid? “relocating native skinks, inflation, moving fibre ducts and upgrading wastewater infrastructure” more…
From the article in The Post: “With enough room for three Olympic swimming pools of wastewater, the tank between State…
Oh no – that IS depressing. I thought it had tripled in budget from $10 mill to $30 mill, not…
$30 million .., hah …as typical with many council projects it’s it’s blown out to $99 million … . https://www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/360960761/cost-porirua-wastewater-tank-blows-out-99-million
The volume of rain hitting Wellington the other day would have filled an Olympic-sized pool (approx 2,500,000lt) in nothing flat.…
I think that Yes, it is all for sewerage ie “waste water” but in Wellington it is still often contaminated…
But very expensive… Porirua has just built one at a cost of about $30 million…
Excellent suggestion – made even more impossible in the case i speak of, as her house was one of three…
Aren’t those for wastewater? https://eyeofthefish.org/building-on-top-of-a-sewer-tank/ https://www.wellingtonwater.co.nz/projects/taranaki-street-pump-station
So from that, I take it that in almost all cases the course of action would be demolish and re-build…
Perhaps we should re-name Island Bay Parade to Great Southern Wadi. ? Might be more honest? One other option, which…
I had someone (repeatedly flooded) ask me exactly that question – and the answer to me is that it is…
It’s too late for Wellington now, but Muscat in Oman is built around a whole bunch of wadis (dry river…
Just attended this event along with 50 or more others. With the exception of one rather ramshackle session near the…