| Civil Emergency ! Flooding round the town |
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| Access to the Heads (river mouth) was blocked by a temporary dike of shingle and sandbags |
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| Behind the dike was a thick layer of silt where the river had risen at high tide. The fishing shop was flooded through |
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| Churchill Street was awash and kids enjoyed kayaking at the bottom of the road |
| Sullivan's Lake on the left flowed over King Street to Eleanor Place looking more like Eleanor Lake. Some basements were under threat here. |
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| Ironically, this was taken last week when Tom (in the rain) was digging a pipe to take roof water into the newly lined pond. The excessive surface flood-water inundated half the lawn but stopped just short of the house |
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| Awatapu - some strange town plannning which allowed housing on an artificial island in the old oxbow of large river. |