Two weeks on from the storm that flooded areas across Tāmaki Makaurau, Piritahi teams have assessed the impact on our sites and the new infrastructure we have built to deal with such events.
In a three-hour period on Monday the 21st of March, some of our sites experienced over 75mm of rainfall – the same amount you would normally expect in a month.
This sudden, torrential rain put our engineering designs and controls to the test ahead of the coming winter, and inevitably, more weather events like this.
There was significant flooding across our neighbourhoods, but Roskill South took the brunt of it:
"The flood modelling we did whilst designing the flood mitigation measures for Freeland Reserve was spot on. The flood walls and spillway functioned exactly as they should and protected the surrounding properties from flooding. Everything that happened – how much flooding based on volume of rain and where it would flood, happened exactly as the modelling predicted - including the 500mm of water in our Roskill South site compound”, said Former Neighbourhood Design Manager, Matt Howe.
Just around the corner in Waikōwhai, the team jumped into action the Friday before the heavy rain was forecast to make sure all environmental controls were in place. Waikōwhai’s Neighbourhood Construction Manager, William Cumpsty and his team created a diversion bund to cater for the upstream water and installed additional sediment controls.
Construction Manager Kusay Bearakat has reviewed the performance of stormwater across all neighbourhoods:
“Analysis of the new infrastructure we have constructed or upgraded in Taniwha Reserve, Dunkirk Culverts, Northcote and Ōwairaka showed that the improvements catered for the storm event and didn’t even leave one inch of water behind once it stopped raining. In the past, a weather event like this would have caused significant damage to the neighbourhoods, blocking off roads and also potentially flooding houses. After Monday’s storm blew over, not one silt fence or bund had been blown out on any of our neighbourhoods. This was a massive accomplishment and a recognition to our site teams who have put in controls properly from the start, and constantly maintained their structural integrity.”
Our teams were out in the rain looking after people in need as well.
"We don't just focus on our sites either, we're in it for our neighbourhoods and our residents.” - Kusay Bearakat, Construction Manager
The team helped cars in the wider area that were stuck in the flood waters by pushing them back out to safety.
PrecinctDirector Owen Clements noted, “right from the start ,when we’re designing infrastructure, we're planning to build resilience; so that when these events happen, all the warm, dry homes that Kāinga Ora build, stay dry."
Two weeks on from the storm that flooded areas across Tāmaki Makaurau, Piritahi teams have assessed the impact on our sites and the new infrastructure we have built to deal with such events.
In a three-hour period on Monday the 21st of March, some of our sites experienced over 75mm of rainfall – the same amount you would normally expect in a month.
This sudden, torrential rain put our engineering designs and controls to the test ahead of the coming winter, and inevitably, more weather events like this.
There was significant flooding across our neighbourhoods, but Roskill South took the brunt of it:
"The flood modelling we did whilst designing the flood mitigation measures for Freeland Reserve was spot on. The flood walls and spillway functioned exactly as they should and protected the surrounding properties from flooding. Everything that happened – how much flooding based on volume of rain and where it would flood, happened exactly as the modelling predicted - including the 500mm of water in our Roskill South site compound”, said Former Neighbourhood Design Manager, Matt Howe.
Just around the corner in Waikōwhai, the team jumped into action the Friday before the heavy rain was forecast to make sure all environmental controls were in place. Waikōwhai’s Neighbourhood Construction Manager, William Cumpsty and his team created a diversion bund to cater for the upstream water and installed additional sediment controls.
Construction Manager Kusay Bearakat has reviewed the performance of stormwater across all neighbourhoods:
“Analysis of the new infrastructure we have constructed or upgraded in Taniwha Reserve, Dunkirk Culverts, Northcote and Ōwairaka showed that the improvements catered for the storm event and didn’t even leave one inch of water behind once it stopped raining. In the past, a weather event like this would have caused significant damage to the neighbourhoods, blocking off roads and also potentially flooding houses. After Monday’s storm blew over, not one silt fence or bund had been blown out on any of our neighbourhoods. This was a massive accomplishment and a recognition to our site teams who have put in controls properly from the start, and constantly maintained their structural integrity.”
Our teams were out in the rain looking after people in need as well.
"We don't just focus on our sites either, we're in it for our neighbourhoods and our residents.” - Kusay Bearakat, Construction Manager
The team helped cars in the wider area that were stuck in the flood waters by pushing them back out to safety.
PrecinctDirector Owen Clements noted, “right from the start ,when we’re designing infrastructure, we're planning to build resilience; so that when these events happen, all the warm, dry homes that Kāinga Ora build, stay dry."
Two weeks on from the storm that flooded areas across Tāmaki Makaurau, Piritahi teams have assessed the impact on our sites and the new infrastructure we have built to deal with such events.
In a three-hour period on Monday the 21st of March, some of our sites experienced over 75mm of rainfall – the same amount you would normally expect in a month.
This sudden, torrential rain put our engineering designs and controls to the test ahead of the coming winter, and inevitably, more weather events like this.
There was significant flooding across our neighbourhoods, but Roskill South took the brunt of it:
"The flood modelling we did whilst designing the flood mitigation measures for Freeland Reserve was spot on. The flood walls and spillway functioned exactly as they should and protected the surrounding properties from flooding. Everything that happened – how much flooding based on volume of rain and where it would flood, happened exactly as the modelling predicted - including the 500mm of water in our Roskill South site compound”, said Former Neighbourhood Design Manager, Matt Howe.
Just around the corner in Waikōwhai, the team jumped into action the Friday before the heavy rain was forecast to make sure all environmental controls were in place. Waikōwhai’s Neighbourhood Construction Manager, William Cumpsty and his team created a diversion bund to cater for the upstream water and installed additional sediment controls.
Construction Manager Kusay Bearakat has reviewed the performance of stormwater across all neighbourhoods:
“Analysis of the new infrastructure we have constructed or upgraded in Taniwha Reserve, Dunkirk Culverts, Northcote and Ōwairaka showed that the improvements catered for the storm event and didn’t even leave one inch of water behind once it stopped raining. In the past, a weather event like this would have caused significant damage to the neighbourhoods, blocking off roads and also potentially flooding houses. After Monday’s storm blew over, not one silt fence or bund had been blown out on any of our neighbourhoods. This was a massive accomplishment and a recognition to our site teams who have put in controls properly from the start, and constantly maintained their structural integrity.”
Our teams were out in the rain looking after people in need as well.
"We don't just focus on our sites either, we're in it for our neighbourhoods and our residents.” - Kusay Bearakat, Construction Manager
The team helped cars in the wider area that were stuck in the flood waters by pushing them back out to safety.
PrecinctDirector Owen Clements noted, “right from the start ,when we’re designing infrastructure, we're planning to build resilience; so that when these events happen, all the warm, dry homes that Kāinga Ora build, stay dry."