Floods affect roads

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33515, 22 April 1974, Page 1

Floods affect roads

Further heavy rain in the foothills and plains areas of the Ashburton County at the week-end undid some of the road restoration work which had been completed last week after the Easter flooding.

State Highway 72 was.! blocked on Saturday night)' when floodwaters from Dry;' Creek surged over the road.ii reaching a peak at 11 p.m.'i Water also flowed over this 1 highway at Taylors and Bowyers streams. Water ; Sis dropped clear of the t way soon after. ) The approach on then

.Mount Somers side of the) ) Tramway Road bridge over) )Taylors Stream was washed) 'away, having been partly) 'eroded by the previous, flooding. Ashburton County Council gangs worked yesterday to restore the approach. Eight low-level bridge i crossings along the Hinds

ißiver had their approaches) i washed out in the Easter (flooding. Two of these had '.been repaired by the County I Council last week, but they .were again washed out this 'week-end. Nearly 40mm of rain was ) recorded in some inland settlements near the foothills, ■ Iwhile in Ashburton the rainfall, which began on Friday li evening and continued) •) throughout Saturday regis-i ;,tered 2'6mm. Rain set in) again early last evening. The saturated ground from) 1 the earlier storm led to the! quick run-off of water, and ; r flooding of streams and 1 ;'rivers. I