What a tremendous turnout for the 9am working bee Saturday morning. 

I believe the count was 16.

Special thanks to Yvonne of the Silverstream Swim Academy and the supplied 5 assistants due to a failed heating pump at their pool.

Special thanks also to Geordie of GWRC who volunteered his unpaid time to assist. Special mention of thanks to GWRC for the loan of the powered wheelbarrow (orange beastie).

We accomplished the planned task of moving gravel onto the 500m pathway loop from the Hutt river trail to the concrete bridge on both sides of the Stream. Without Orange beastie ably controlled by Gordie of GWRC. Orange beastie did the work of 8 wheelbarrows at a time and we would have been pushed to complete the job by lunchtime.

The path looks great and I hope you all can enjoy walking it over the coming Autumn and Winter months.

A great morning tea was held after the event which was most welcome, tea, hot chocolate, water, coffee and biscuits. THis hit the spot after the hard work

I have attached some photos of the completed job.

ONGOING work.

There is a bit of compacting of the gravel that needs doing which we are hoping to be completed next Saturday morning with aid from some additional loan machinery.

Spreading more gravel Northwards up the stream path after a bit of grass grooming during the week.

Having 16 of us this morning spread the load very nicely. Thanks to all once again.

To view more photos from the event, click here

A “thank you” to Kevin Braddock for sending this article to The Upper Hutt Connection.

11/05/26