Sewer General
Reported Tuesday, 26 July 2022 at 7:40 am, 36 West-Watson Avenue, Hillmorton, Christchurch 8025, New Zealand.
The reporter’s words
Whenever there is decent rain, it is guranteed that my toilet will backup (photo attached). This pretty much means I cannot use the toilet. It has happened 3x this month (July 2022), but has occured nemerous times over the last 2 years. Gully traps on the outside of my house do no overflow, so I am convinced it is a sewer issue on the road. Photos also attached of my street this morning. First one is looking across to Grigg Place. Street is flooded, but the sewer manhole is not surcharging. Second photo is just up the road at the intersection of Harling Ave / West-Watson Ave, and clearly shows the sewer manhole surcharging. I believe the sewer network is overwhelmed from stormwater. The stormwater network in the area tends to comprise many bubble-up sumps that are constantly clogged with debris/leaves and it just cannot cope. I suspect this results in stormwater entering the sewer network via manholes and vents. I could handle this if the toilet backed up once every few years. But this is something I now have to pre-plan everytime there is rain.
The filing
- Filed
- Tuesday, 26 July 2022 at 7:40 am
- Report number
- #2,502,752
- Filed under
- water
- Coordinates
- the pin on the map →
Also at this address one of 5
- Sewer General23 Jul 2023
Sewer General31 Jul 2022Wastewater/Stormwater22 Apr 2018
Wastewater/Stormwater10 Apr 2018
The council’s work orders, near this pin
- Council Sewer17 m away · resolved 27 Jul 2022, took 31 hours · probably the same job, filed through both doors
- Water Meter Box & Parts15 m away · resolved 8 Oct 2021, took 9 days
- Trees17 m away · resolved 17 Jan 2025, took 2 weeks
- Water Leak17 m away · resolved 22 Jan 2024, took 8 days
- Blockage/Water Not Draining17 m away · resolved 12 Jan 2024, took 3 months
- Garden/Landscaped Area25 m away · open, filed 18 Aug 2026
- Potholes25 m away · resolved 2 Sept 2024, took 3 days
- Blocked drain pipe or waterway (Road)29 m away · resolved 31 Mar 2020, took 23 hours
MyCouncilTicket is the council’s own work-order stream, a different door from the public report above, and the same job can stand in both. The whole ticket roll →
Where this sits
The address36 West-Watson Avenueone of 5 reports at this address, the address’s whole recordThe streetWest-Watson Avenuethe street’s record, every report on itThe suburbHillmortonthe suburb, in depthThe problemSewer Generalevery filing of its kind on the city’s booksThe date26 Julythis date in the archive, across the yearsThe year2022the year’s shelf and ledgerThe mapOn the mapthe pin, among its neighboursBeforeWhat stood herewhat the archive knows of this ground
The feed listed this report when a sweep caught it 6 Sept 2026, it has not been listed since. The record here does not move.