Be Careful with Cricket World Cup Flags

Be Careful with Cricket World Cup Flags

Vector is reminding cricket fans to be careful with hanging Cricket World Cup flags and bunting.

In 2011, during the Rugby World Cup, power was cut when people either dug into underground cables when trying to erect flagpoles, or did not secure bunting well enough, and it was flung into power poles by the wind.

In one Pakuranga street, 70 metres of underground cable had to be replaced when a resident dug holes to erect 15 flagpoles on the street, cutting into the electrical wiring.

In the other incident in Ponsonby, bunting was flung into the cross wires of a power pole, causing an outage to 50 houses for about an hour.

Eden Park will host four matches for the Cricket World Cup with teams from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Pakistan and Zimbabwe playing.

Network summary for week ending 15 February 2015

Electricity

Emergency services asked our crews to check poles and lines at the site of a grass fire in Whitford during the week. There was no damage to any Vector assets.

Car v pole incidents occurred in Sunnynook, Opaheke, Mt Albert and Takanini. Our control room stayed in close contact with emergency services over the Sunnynook event, as a person was trapped in a vehicle. The Opaheke incident involved a council streetlight, not a Vector pole. Our crews made the site safe and referred it to the council.

Emergency services advised us of house/building fires in Manurewa, Ponsonby, Clover Park, Greenhithe, Te Atatu Peninsula and Takanini during the week. Our crews isolated power for safety.

Gas

A member of the public reported a smell of gas in Taupo during the week. Emergency services advised they were responding, and our service providers found no trace of gas. A third party contractor struck a gas pipe in Orewa over the weekend, Vector crews were on site quickly to repair the damage.

Projects

Vector crews are about to get busy laying pipes for one of the biggest recycling paper plants in the country. In the past, the Carter Holt Harvey plant in Penrose has been powered by an off-site boiler, but that is about to change. A new boiler on site will provide their own steam energy to run the plant, requiring a significant increase in gas supply from 11 TJ to more than 500 TJ. Our crews will be trenching and laying around 850 metres of specialised steel gas pipes along Hugo Johnson Drive as well as assisting with some internal pipework at the plant. The project will begin shortly and take around five months to complete.

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