Comment 32582

By frank (registered) | Posted August 05, 2009 at 08:40:04

I don't intend to wage another RHCE or not debate however, those of you who portray the RHCE as a culprit in the flooding need to take a comprehensive course on water and waste watermanagement - one that includes subjects like the design of stormwater retention and detention systems. Having surveyed the damage myself both at the Red Hill and above the escarpment and being an individual who has taken said courses, I know it's idiocy to place blame on the expressway surface itself as a culprit. I'd be far more inclined to look at the plethora of new surveys (houses, driveways, roadways etc) and new shopping centres being built above the mountain brow than blame a roadway who's very construction included a redesign of a creek that would've vomitted raw sewage all over lower Hamilton in the same storm if it had happened 5 years ago.

As far as Merulla goes, if he hadn't come out the same day all guns firing I'm sure we all would've been asking what had happened to him. It's typical of him and is to be expected...

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