Everytime it rains – which to be fair has been quite a lot in recent weeks – Allwill Drive in Hautapu floods.
Businesses have become so frustrated they have taken to calling it Lake Allwill but relief is near for the road which was largely scrub less than a decade ago before it became industrialised.
Lake Allwill is what businesses in the area are calling this Hautapu road. Photo: Supplied.
Stormwater infrastructure upgrades began on Monday. The work includes swale construction and catchpit upgrades.
Waipā District Council Waters strategic lead Robin Walker said the work should alleviate some of the depth of the road flooding experience.
“The final solution is reliant on the construction of the stormwater basin …which will likely occur this coming summer.”
That basin is being built in the C8 growth cell at the bottom of Allwill Drive in an existing paddock.
“The new swales will be connected to this once construction is complete,” said Walker.
That is good news for Sandy Schaare at Wraptrade who said a family of ducks had moved into the neighbourhood.
“They (the council) must be spending a fortune vacuuming the water away and the fix/impact is always temporary,” he said.
Flood waters greeted him on Monday but so too did workers from council contractor Camex Civil who began sucking out the grates and culverts.
“I’m really hoping it will work,” said Schaare.
Lake Allwill is what businesses in the area are calling this Hautapu road. Photo: Supplied.
