# Wastewater/Stormwater, 277, Okuti Valley Road, Little River, Canterbury, 7591, New Zealand

Little River, Christchurch · filed 28 July 2021 · report 1701420
https://www.chch.live/report/1701420

> Hello. I am writing in regards to water flowing across the road opposite our house at 277 Okuti Valley Road, Little River causing erosion to the side of the road and our driveway entrance. We have had substantial damage inflicted to the roadside where we live – particularly in the last 12months (severely exacerbated by the heavy rainfall in June 2021). Some remedial work has been done by contractors to fix the issues but this has unfortunately not solved the problems (potentially creating more issues). Following the large rainfall event earlier this year, contractors have attempted to remediate the damage to the side of the road and the entrance to our driveway by clearing the cutoff drain, laying down asphalt in two places and putting down stones/shingle at the entry to our driveway which had become almost unpassable. Unfortunately, this has not solved the problem. We see water tracking across the road during any rainfall event and this immediately starts to erode the road side from the culvert down to below our drive entrance. The asphalt has made no difference – the water either goes over it (as there is no lip) and erodes the grass behind it, or funnels into the sections which haven’t had asphalt and erode them out even worse than before. All the good work to level the entrance to our driveway is rapidly doing undone with each rainfall event. What is needed is for the asphalt to be put down from the cut-out ditch (photo 2) down to below our driveway (photo 1). This asphalt also needs a lip on it to stop the water simply flowing over it and eroding the grass behind it – as this only pushes the problem further into the grass verge.

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## The council’s work orders, near this pin
- Channel/Kerb/Culvert, 3 m away · resolved 29 Aug 2022, took 6 weeks
- Flooding, 7 m away · resolved 18 Jun 2026, took 4 months
- Road/Hard Surface, 7 m away · resolved 18 Jun 2026, took 3 months
- Blockage/Water Not Draining, 11 m away · resolved 18 Jun 2026, took 3 months
- Potholes, 17 m away · resolved 16 Apr 2026, took 8 weeks
- Road Asset (e.g.footpathroadfurniture), 37 m away · resolved 25 Jul 2021, took 4 months
- Sweeping, 44 m away · open, filed 14 Sept 2026
- Road/Hard Surface, 58 m away · resolved 27 Oct 2022, took 3 months
MyCouncilTicket is a different door from the public report, one job can stand in both streams. The whole roll: https://www.chch.live/fixed

The problem: https://www.chch.live/problems/stormwater
The street the pin lands nearest: https://www.chch.live/street/little-river/okuti-valley-road
The filed address the pin lands 3 m from: https://www.chch.live/little-river/277-okuti-valley-road
The suburb: https://www.chch.live/little-river
The attached photograph: https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/snapsendsolve-reports/images/01701420/1_KNrDb9.jpg
What stood on this ground before: https://www.chch.live/before?lat=-43.78659439032519&lon=172.82766723682977

Data: https://api.chch.live/report?id=1701420