Te waipuke i Kent Terrace kua mutu – kua whakatikatikaina te paipa wai pakaru

I muri i te waipuke i Kent Terrace mō te rā kotahi, i oti i ngā kaimahi o Wellington Water te whakatikatika i te paipa tawhito pakaru i te pō whakamutunga. I te 10 i te pō, koinei ngā pūrongo mai i Wellington Water:

"Kia noho haumaru ai te rohe i te pō, ka whakakīia ki muri, ka āraia hoki, ā, ka noho tonu te whakahaere waka tae noa ki te ata – engari ka mahi mātou kia iti rawa te whakararuraru i ngā waka."

"Ka hoki mai ngā kapa ki te papa i te ata o te Taite ki te whakaoti i ngā mahi whakamutunga, ā, e matapaetia ana ka wātea te rohe i te tīmatanga o te ahiahi, ā, ka hoki anō te mahi katoa a muri ake nei."

E harikoa ana mātou ki te whakamōhio atu kua iti ake te mōrearea o te whānui haere o te kati i tēnei ahiahi, engari kei te akiaki tonu mātou i ngā kainoho kia penapena wai. Mēnā ka puta he kati whānui ake, ka tukuna ngā tāke wai ki ngā wāhi e pāngia ana. Nā te uaua o te whakatikatika, e matapaetia ana ka haere tonu te mahi tae noa ki te mutunga o tēnei ahiahi, ā, ka whakahokia mai te ratonga i te waenganui pō.

Ko ngā wāhi ka pāngia pea e te iti, te kore rānei o te ratonga:
– Te Wāhi o Courtenay mai i Cambridge Tce ki Allen St
– Pirie St mai i Austin St ki Kent Tce
– Te Tiriti o Brougham mai i Te Tiriti o Pirie ki Te Huarahi o Armour
– Ngā wāhanga o Hātaitai me Roseneath

I te 1 i te ahiahi, i kī a Wellington Water nā te uaua o te whakatikatika, tērā pea kāore e taea te whakahoki mai i te ratonga katoa tae noa ki te pō nei, ki te ata pō rānei o āpōpō. I kī rātou kua whakaitihia e āna kaimahi te rere o te wai kia taea ai e rātou te keri i te taha o te pakaru.

"Kua kitea te paipa inaianei (whakaahua kei runga ake nei) engari kei te tino teitei tonu te rere. Ka mahi mātou ki te wehe i te paipa kia taea ai te whakaoti haumaru i te whakatikatika."

"Tērā pea ka kite ngā kaihoko i ngā rohe e whai ake nei i te ngaronga o te puna wai, i te iti rānei o te pēhanga wai."
– Kent Terrace, Cambridge Terrace, Courtenay Place, Pirie Street. Mēnā ka pēhia koe, tēnā whakamōhio atu ki te tīma whakapā kiritaki a te Kaunihera o te Tāone o Te Whanganui-a-Tara. Tērā pea ka kite ngā kiritaki i Mt Victoria, Roseneath me Hataitai i ngā teitei ake i te pēhanga wai iti, i te ngaronga rānei o te ratonga.

I kōrero a Tim Harty, te tumuaki o ngā mahi me te miihini o Wellington Water, ki te Midday Report a RNZ, he uaua ki a rātou te wehe i te pakaru nā te pakaru o ngā takirere.

I te neke haere te tīma whakatika i roto i te whatunga, e kati ana i ngā takirere hei ngana ki te aukati i te rere o te wai ki te wāhi pakaru, engari kāore ētahi takirere i te mahi tika, ā, ka nui ake te wāhi kati i te mea i whakaarohia. I kī ia ko te paipa he wāhanga o ngā hanganga tawhito o te tāone.

Pūrongo me ngā whakaahua mai i RNZ nā Bill Hickman – 21 o Ākuhata
Kua waipuketia te nuinga o Kent Terrace i waenganui o Te Whanganui-a-Tara e te paipa wai kua pakaru. I te wāhi waipuke ngā kaimahi kirimana – i waenganui i a Vivian Street me Buckle Street – i mua i te 5am i tēnei ata.

I kī a Wellington Water he mahi whakatikatika nui tēnei, ā, e matapaetia ana ka roa te whakatikatika i roto i te 8 – 10 hāora.

I kīia kua kati te ara o roto o Kent Terrace, ā, kua tono ki ngā kaitaraiwa e anga ana ki te taunga rererangi kia haere mā Oriental Bay.

I te 5 i te ata, kua taupokina e te wai tata ki ngā ara e toru o te rori e tata ana ki te tomokanga raki ki te Basin Reserve. Kua tae te wai ki te hohonutanga tata ki te 30 henimita i waenganui o te rori.

I roto i tētahi kōrero i mua tata i te 7 i te ata, i tono a Wellington Water ki te iwi kia karo i te rohe i te wā e whakatinanahia ana te whakahaere waka. "Ki te kore, me tatari kia roa te wā. E mihi ana mātou he huarahi matua tēnei, nō reira kei te mahi mātou i ngā mea katoa hei whakaiti i te pānga ki ngā tāngata haere.

"I tēnei wā, kāore mātou e tumanako ka pāngia tetahi o ngā whare e te kati engari ka tukuna atu ētahi atu kōrero i te haere tonu o te whakatikatika."

Engari i muri tata mai i taua kōrero, ka tukuna e Wellington Water tētahi whakahōutanga e kōrero ana i tētahi kōrero rerekē:

Kei te tirotirohia e ngā kaimahi ngā pūrongo mō te kore ratonga, te iti rānei o te pēhanga wai i ngā wāhi teitei o Roseneath. Tērā pea ka pāngia hoki ngā wāhi o Maunga Wikitōria.

Ā, tētahi atu whakahōutanga i te 10am:

Kua roa te aukati wai i te rohe – me whakatika te paipa – kia kapi katoa i a Courtenay Place, Kent Terrace, me Cambridge Terrace.

Hei karo i ngā āhuatanga kino pērā anō, ka taea te whakamahi i te radar wai tere taumata wai atamai mō te aroturuki i te tere o te taumata wai mō te wā tūturu hei whakaiti i ngā mate koretake i puta mai i ngā āhuatanga kino o te taiao.