# Parks, Sparks Road Wetland 270 Sparks Road, Halswell, Christchurch 8025, New Zealand

Halswell, Christchurch · filed 30 October 2021 · report 1903703
https://www.chch.live/report/1903703

> The wetland at the corner of sparks and hendersons road has not had a full grass mow for over a year. All grass areas were well maintained for the 12 month maintenance period after it was built but since CCC has taken it over maintenance has been extremely poor. Large areas have not been mown for over a year and only small patches get mown once a month. They are full of dead weeds from last year and new weeds and gorse is coming through now. You have a sign up saying it is an active wetland and to expect long grass at times. I guess this means it will never been mown properly. This place is going to become a weed jungle if you dont maintain it. As a civil engineer i know that the grass areas dont have any performance requirements for the working wetland and as such in your maintenance manual should state that all grass areas should be mown and weeds controlled. Please either mow and maintain the grass areas regularly or provide me with the design report and maintenance manual for this wetland that proves me wrong. Cheers Sam

*The reporter’s own words, a public report relayed, not verified or endorsed.*

## The council’s work orders, near this pin
- General Maintenance (Parks), 0 m away · resolved 1 Nov 2021, took 2 days, probably the same job, filed through both doors
- Grass, 111 m away · resolved 5 Apr 2023, took 23 hours
- General Maintenance (Facility), 116 m away · resolved 5 Nov 2019, took 3 days
- Garden (Park), 126 m away · resolved 8 Jun 2022, took 35 hours
- Litter, 130 m away · resolved 24 Jan 2023, took 15 hours
- Litter Bin (Not Wheelie Bin), 130 m away · resolved 15 May 2023, took 7 hours
- Litter, 130 m away · resolved 20 Dec 2022, took 5 days
- Dog Attack, 130 m away · resolved 19 Dec 2022, took 7 days
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/parks-maintenance
The street: https://www.chch.live/street/halswell/road-wetland-270-sparks-road
The suburb: https://www.chch.live/halswell
The attached photograph: https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/snapsendsolve-reports/images/01903703/1_i7xeca.jpg
What stood on this ground before: https://www.chch.live/before?lat=-43.57455199879641&lon=172.59083649974954

Data: https://api.chch.live/report?id=1903703