Bad road works

Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 13, Issue 615, 5 December 1995, Page 4

Bad road works

• Ruapehu Construction Ltd has received payment on their maintenance contract for our Ruatiti roads. Why? Our roads have not been maintained to the required standards. Further, these roads have been left to deteriorate with numerous blocked culverts causing landslides and washouts which have made negotiating these roads dangerous. Also, we have had flawed roading methods used. A watertable has been created on the outer edge of the road where inadequate parapets (berms) allow water to gush over gorge sides thereby causing untold tons of earth and vegetation to subside into our rivers and streams. How is it that qualified (we presume) persons in charge of maintenance work have to date been unable to comprehend the

cause of all this damage? Surely the council must be liable for the vast amounts of soil and debris faulty roading practices and sheer neglect are causing to flow into out rivers. In the first 3.6km from my home there are 10 landslides that have slipped into the river and all of them directly attributable to faulty roading and maintenance practices. Who is going to supply the money to repair this damage? The council? RCL? We have paid our rates. Please, Ruapehu District Council, carry out your part of the deal and save our roads from further costly damage.

James

Creedmore