Friday research

This morning I did some research to find out where the borders of the different zones were so that we could go out and look at the lamp posts in these particular positions.

The Red Zone is pretty much anything within a couple of meters of the water - so Oriental Parade, Te Papa, Frank Kitts Park, and just generally along the waterfront.

The Orange Zone is a bigger zone that extends further inland up Kent/Cambridge Terrace, along Courtenay Place/Manners Street, Willis Street, and Lambton Quay.

Then the Yellow Zone goes a little further up Kent/Cambridge Terrace, further up Willis and up to Dixon and Cuba Streets, and up past the Beehive to The Terrace.

When we met up and went out to look around it was lucky I'd worked out where to go as the others were just going to wander but I'd come up with a plan of where to go so it meant our time was used most purposefully.

I've uploaded the images in google drive, but have a few here as key references:

These lampposts run down a path from the waterfront which is part of the red zone. As a reasonably well used traffic area these could be a good series of poles to use.










Some of them have power availability as well (used for when there are food trucks there) but these could allow us more opportunities.

 

Some lamp posts already had a lot of existing additions - this one has street signs and road signs so would be a no-go for us.

The lamp posts in Courtenay Place have funny little symbols up in the top triangle section which are left over from a Chinese New Year festival a couple of years ago. This highlights what Nick Kapica spoke about when he was in with the council letting things be put up and then not taking them down. We consider this as an opportunity space where we could take down the old and purposeless pieces and replace them with something around tsunami awareness which wouldn't date.











I also did some research into the history of Tsunamis in New Zealand as this had not been passed forward by the previous teams.

What I found was:
Wairarapa Earthquake 23 Jan 1855 tilted Wellington, and with it the Wellington Harbour. The eastern side of the harbour moved 0.8m higher than the western side, displacing the water into the shoreline along Lambton Quay and flooding it's houses and shops.
20 minutes after the quake a 3-4m high tsunami entered through Wellington Harbour and spread across to the Lyall Bay/Kilbirnie Area.
Due to the nature of our harbour, the water continued to slosh back and forth for a number of hours.