# Wastewater/Stormwater, 36 Poynder Avenue, Merivale, Christchurch 8014, New Zealand

Merivale, Christchurch · filed 19 April 2022 · report 2298628
https://www.chch.live/report/2298628

> There is now very significant flooding in the Wairarapa stream. We are likely to loose many of the trees you can see in the picture, they are drowning. It has never been so bad. This morning I talked to the council people who came to take away the weed from upstream where it was cleared last week. The wrong end of the stream has been cleared, it has not helped anyone, the high water has nowhere to go, if anything it has made the flooding downstream worse. The council people also haven’t seen it ever so bad, and wonder if there is a more significant obstruction downstream. That is what needs to be cleared. They emphasised that we must get back in contact with you and see what you are doing about it. Has any of you actually come on site to see the problem? If you had you would not have instructed the teams to start their clearing up upstream of the flooding. My neighbours and I have been trying to contact you several times, through this means and by telephone and by email and through our councillors. Apart from a note a couple of weeks ago saying it would be attended to in May, needing a special permit, you are not responding to say what you are doing about it. We need to hear what is happening ASAP.

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## Also at this address (one of 5)
- [Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge](https://www.chch.live/report/8786038), 22 Aug 2026
- [Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge](https://www.chch.live/report/8314882), 26 May 2026
- [Flooding](https://www.chch.live/report/2278358), 9 Apr 2022
- [Graffiti](https://www.chch.live/report/986941), 18 Feb 2020
- [The address’s whole record](https://www.chch.live/merivale/36-poynder-avenue)

## The council’s work orders, near this pin
- Blockage (Waste/Storm/Waterway), 1 m away · resolved 20 Apr 2022, took 27 hours, probably the same job, filed through both doors
- Trees, 5 m away · resolved 9 Jan 2025, took 3 days
- Graffiti - Road, footpath or bridge, 5 m away · resolved 24 Aug 2026, took 2 days
- Tree (Road), 6 m away · resolved 30 Apr 2019, took 3 days
- Tree (Waterway), 7 m away · resolved 17 Oct 2019, took 8 months
- Graffiti on Utility box, 9 m away · resolved 13 Sept 2021, took 3 days
- Tree (Road), 11 m away · resolved 16 Jul 2019, took 4 months
- Signs, 12 m away · resolved 19 Dec 2022, took 4 weeks
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: https://www.chch.live/street/merivale/poynder-avenue
The address: https://www.chch.live/merivale/36-poynder-avenue
The suburb: https://www.chch.live/merivale
The attached photograph: https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/snapsendsolve-reports/images/02298628/1_v7WSSa.jpg
What stood on this ground before: https://www.chch.live/before?lat=-43.51477050694734&lon=172.6110534664853

Data: https://api.chch.live/report?id=2298628