Posted on June 28, 2018
By Tina Law, stuff
Work to stabilise the banks of Christchurch’s Heathcote River is nearing the half-way mark.
Stage one, designed to reduce flooding along the river, has involved the Christchurch City Council lining 2 kilometres of riverbank with rocks and lining another 270 metres with rock-filled baskets (gabion baskets). The work was split up into 16 sections between Ashgrove Tce in Cashmere to Palatine and Eastern terraces in Beckenham.
City council land drainage manager Keith Davison said stage one was nearing completion and stage two would begin in October or November when a further 1500m of riverbank would be lined with rock and 65m with gabion baskets. Stage two will finish by the middle of 2019.
The stabilisation work is part of a $72 million scheme to reduce flooding along the Heathcote River. Other measures include building four new storage basins in the upper Heathcote, dredging the river downstream of Hansen Park and buying about 24 homes at risk of frequent flooding.
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