Flood Fallout

Golf course twice turns into lake fit for boating

Waitemata Golf Club’s temporary transition into ‘Lake Devonport’ was a drawcard for local youngsters after floods first hit, but for golfers what followed were frustrating days awaiting a return to play.

Around 20 people turned out last Tuesday for a working bee to clear debris left by the big flood of 27 January, only to have more flooding hit in the early hours of Wednesday 1 February.

“That basically put us back to square one,”

Flood Friday rainfall

Rainfall in the Wairau Valley – one of the areas worst hit on flood Friday – was lower than other North Shore suburbs.

Auckland Council data shows Wairau’s rainfall on 27 January was 142mm compared with 208mm at Bayswater, 254mm at Mairangi Bay, 276mm at Birkdale, 282mm at Rosedale and 280mm in the city’s Albert Park which has been widely used as Auckland’s rainfall figure.

Wairau’s total was, however, still 10 per cent of its rainfall for all of 2022 (1408mm).

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said club general manager David Herbert. The pumping station on Seabreeze Rd had failed in the second deluge, delaying drainage.

“When that pump is overloaded it is designed to spill out on the golf course,” Herbert said.

Council staff responded to a call to fix the pump, working until midnight, but Herbert understood there was an electrical issue for Vector to deal with into Thursday.