3-Year Ghost Hunt Ends in Kaiapoi

July 4, 2019

By NZB3

Well I hope these studious and thorough consultants didn’t get paid too much. And, that they at least made some pretence of walking around with survey equipment to earn this pay cheque.

An ongoing headache for residents living in Kaiapoi’s Silverstream development is finally over after the Waimakariri District Council confirmed their houses are protected from flooding after all.- North Canterbury’s subdivision fears over flooding laid to rest following three-year investigation

So to sum up…

“Independent consultants” have been employed and paid over the course of a three-year investigation.

Because “..a surveyor” working for “a building company” “suggested some homes..” might be too low down.

If I were an anarchist I would suggest this situation were nonsense. Three years of hunting a ghost flood? At what cost to the taxpayer?

Was someone intentionally using this 3-year Damoclean situation to artificially lower prices of the development? So they can buy them up? So someone will pay them or do some political favour for them to let up and go away?

Goodness knows what petty political nonsense was behind this episode. Reminds me of priests inventing sins so they can then sell the cures to the gullible. The only thing on the level about this 3-year investigation turns out to have been all the houses: All along.

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Image ref. Silverstream Estate photo from their Mitre 10 Dream Home season featuring Silverstream (2013)

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