Welcome to the first Council newsletter on the work we are doing to maintain, repair and improve our city’s roads and pipes. 

As SCIRT finishes its earthquake repair programme the Christchurch City Council is enhancing its maintenance, upgrade and repair programme. We hope you will find this newsletter a valuable source of information on our roading and 3 waters projects.

We'll be putting out editions of this newsletter when we have major project updates.

We also welcome your feedback on what you'd like the newsletter to cover. Please get in touch at infrastructurenews@ccc.govt.nz and let us know your thoughts.

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We’ve budgeted over $600 million over the next five years to repair our horizontal services which includes:

• Roading
• 3 waters – wastewater, fresh water supply and stormwater

Keep up-to-date on the Council’s major roading and 3 waters projects at www.ccc.govt.nz/roadsandpipes. Ahead of any work commencing, works notices will be issued to communities in the surrounding areas.

Christchurch civil structural engineer and author Phil Wilkins has written Christchurch-Our Underground Story, a children’s book about the work SCIRT has done to repair and rebuild the city’s hidden underground services.

Illustrated by Martin Coates, this lift-the-flap picture book will help children learn where water comes from, where it goes and everything in between. Sales from the book has gone to Ronald McDonald House South Island. Expressions of interest are open for the June print run. 

The final stages of the Bealey Avenue resealing is due for completion this weekend. Council crews have been carrying out asphalt resurfacing work on various sections of Bealey Avenue. Work has been completed on the following sections:
• Park Terrace to Victoria Street
• Colombo Street to Manchester Street
• Manchester Street to Madras Street
• Manchester Street to Colombo Street
• Madras Street to Barbadoes Street

Work is underway to install water and wastewater pipes on Riccarton Road. Work started in September 2016 to tie in with other bus priority, drainage and pavement construction taking place on Riccarton Road. To date about 25 per cent of the new wastewater and water supply pipes have been laid in the ground. Work has started on stage two of the project.

Montreal Street works are scheduled to start late April and will involve repairs to the road structure and asphalt resurfacing. Works will be carried out during both day and night, aimed at minimising disruption to traffic. The works will be completed by late June.