Maleme Street closed due to flooding

Tauranga City Council advises that Maleme Street is closed due to flooding. Photos: Glen Perry.

UPDATED 12PM: Tauranga City Council confirms flooding has now subsided around the Maleme Street area.

A spokesperson says the road is now open again and council will advise if anything changes.

'But for now it's back to normal,” the spokesperson says.

EARLIER:

Maleme Street in Greerton has been closed this morning due to flooding caused by the rains overnight.

A Tauranga City Council spokesperson says due to the closure, there is currently no public access to the Maleme Street transfer station.

'We'll update when the road reopens.”

A SunLive reader who sent in a photo of the flooding this morning says he's worked on Maleme Street for three years now, and about eight months ago council carried out work on the road to reduce flooding when it rains heavily.

'It's worked well until our last heavy rains a month or so ago, and today I suppose.”

SunLive will update this story when more information is available.

Do you have photos of the flooding? Send them to newsroom@thesun.co.nz

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9 comments

look

Posted on 27-05-2017 08:30 | By Capt_Kaveman

at the drain / stream at high tide and thats your answer


Flooding

Posted on 27-05-2017 09:13 | By Cynical Me

Well I noticed a digger "cleaning" the drains on the other side of the main highway during the week. Did debris clog the system?


Waters gone now

Posted on 27-05-2017 09:24 | By Vman

Hoes about removing road closed sign.....


Dont worry about the drains

Posted on 27-05-2017 10:47 | By Dazed and Confused

Lets build a Museum.


Any chance

Posted on 27-05-2017 16:07 | By CC8

Any chance they might be able to manage a museum better than they can manage roads and drainage? Just imagine how they would have dealt with a higher than normal tide if they built the museum over the water like they wanted to! And the stupidity of it all is that the chief bungler in that debacle was reelected to council this time around.... back at the trough doing nothing but collecting the fee for attendance.


What a nightmare

Posted on 27-05-2017 17:17 | By kinakat

Overnight flooding caused problems for neighbouring Glenlyon Ave as well. Wow I bet Greerton Marist rugby field has gone under as well (again).


Did I miss something ??

Posted on 27-05-2017 22:32 | By The Caveman

Every time there anything more than a shower it seems that Maleme Street and a number of other are FLOODED. About time the council dot on top its real purpose - streets, drainage, water supply etc etc, and forgot about all its fancy nice to have, but totally unnecessary ideas.


Drain getting blocked up.

Posted on 28-05-2017 17:23 | By SonnyJim

I stopped and looked in that drain on the north side of Maleme Street last week. Seemed to be a lot of heavy stones and gravel blocking the flow at about 6m down from outflow. Backhoe work needed.


The bigger picture

Posted on 29-05-2017 21:22 | By Papamoaner

This is not peculiar to Tauranga. We are approaching the bend in the exponential curve that is climate change, so it's getting noticeable as horizontal transitions to vertical. After that Watch Out! Vertical from here on! That means more intense storms closer together, getting worse faster. So blocked drains suddenly become more noticeable and council cops the rap, but it's always been that way. So council now need to maintain drains more regularly than in the past, and citizens need to get used to more intense weather events. Overuse of vehicles and milling of forests doesn't help the atmospheric CO2 problem either, so is an aggravating factor. When will we ever learn?


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