Spending (or wasting) our “too-much-water” money
Kathinka
annual costs? Not the DCC Rates because this is the Regional Council
and now they bill us separately so it doesn't look as if the council has
put the rates up too much! So the DCC will be able to add their whack
for Carisbrook or the Conference Centre or whatever ego-gratifying
project Harland can get them to chorus "Yes sir" to.
The owners of Tagg and Filadelfio at the Gardens know about the flooding
problem – ask them if they would rather have stream water or storm water
in their premises!
Otago Regional Council's 100-Year Flood Protection Scheme for Leith &
Lindsay streams - Estimated cost - over $21 million. Enormous work -
widen and deepen those streams so they can cope with the (estimated) 100
year flood and (largely) a 200 year one.
There are terrifying photos in their booklet, of the 1929 flood when the
authorities panicked and let Sullivans Dam go all at once!
But the low-lying areas will still be flooded! If there were enough
water to overflow the present banks how would the storm water system
cope with it?
If our “too-much-water” money goes to protecting us from something that
*may* happen there won't be enough left to pay for what *does* happen -
on 7 February 2005 for instance:
“We now know that around 24 millimetres of rain fell on the city in 15
minutes. This is a very unusual weather event for Dunedin. In fact,
according to Raineffects hydrologist, Dave Stewart this deluge was a
one-in-150 year, or even a one-in-300 year, occurrence for the city.
Our stormwater system is designed for 1-in-10 year magnitude
thunderstorms, which is in line with national standards.”
(http://www.cityofdunedin.com/city/?page=feat_floods05)
Is the Leith-Lindsay scheme necessary? Is it desirable? Is it the best
use of our money? Is the landscape destruction justified?
---> Is this the best use of our money? <---
mark
> Subject: Spending (or wasting) our "too-much-water" money
> From: Kathinka <blue...@clear.net.nz>
> Newsgroups: nz.reg.dunedin.general
> Reply-To: "", blue...@clear.net.nz
>
> Don't any of you care about the extra that is going to be added to your
> annual costs?
Yes. I'd rather put the money into insurance. Oh wait, I *am* insured.
Kiwi John
making councils or shires here rich
Sydney makes more money out of water than anything else
to buy it in is 80.00 per 1500 liters
a lot of the bores have dryed up because of all the coal mines we have
around 10 in this shire that use ground water and that much of it they have
lowered the water by around 60 meters over the last 10 years
and sorry folks we have had rain on 11 days so far this year 2mm here is
rain notice I said on 11 days not rained for 11 days
oh and by the way isnt the lower end of the leith its natural flood plain
just because you put concrete there dosent mean its the way the water wants
to go
"Kathinka" <blue...@clear.net.nz> wrote in message
news:426e...@clear.net.nz...
> Don't any of you care about the extra that is going to be added to your
> annual costs? Not the DCC Rates because this is the Regional Council and
> now they bill us separately so it doesn't look as if the council has put
> the rates up too much! So the DCC will be able to add their whack for
> Carisbrook or the Conference Centre or whatever ego-gratifying project
> Harland can get them to chorus "Yes sir" to.
>
> The owners of Tagg and Filadelfio at the Gardens know about the flooding
> dosent problem – ask them if they would rather have stream water or storm