Christchurch flooding, demolition PHOTOS
The photographs say it all...
Parts of Christchurch were flooded yesterday after heavy rain battered the fragile city, which is slowly being rebuilt.
The photographs say it all...
A house flooded yesterday in Stapletons Rd, St Albans, next to Dudley Stream where land has subsided. Now it floods easily. The stream always rose and fell quickly but after the earthquakes it regularly overflows in heavy rainfall, also partly because of liquefaction in the stream bed.
Slater St in St Albans, where the street now floods from the nearby creek in medium to heavy rainfall.
Like many other waterways in Christchurch, this stream in St Albans now floods very easily post-earthquakes.
Demolitions are picking up. This house being flattened in Hills Rd, St Albans, is close to a stream. The owners are planning to rebuild using stronger foundations. It is not a red zone.
Demolition began on this office building (centre) in Victoria St this week. The lean is not a camera distortion. The foundations of one or both of the buildings gave way. The fate of the third building in the background is yet to be determined. Both of the foreground buildings are coming down.
Cathedral Square is now partially open for pedestrians. The Anglican cathedral is a sorry sight as city fathers bicker over its future.
Rebuild. This is one of the first inner city buildings under way by Amherst Properties. It can proceed because it is outside the govenrment's Central Christchurch Development Unit's "frame" and therefore not constrained by the grand architects' rebuilding vision.
Much of the central city looks still like a construction site as demolitions continue.
A sight reminiscent of how early Christchurch might have looked before it was developed. There is car parking for miles, but try and use any of it without paying...
Looking from the north into Cathedral Square. Redevelopment is eagerly awaited.
Chris Hutching
Mon, 17 Jun 2013
Mon, 17 Jun 2013
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Christchurch flooding, demolition PHOTOS
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