Busy weekend for Auckland

Busy weekend for Auckland

It’s one down and three to go at Eden Park for Cricket World Cup 2015.

It was a very busy weekend in Auckland with the Volvo yachts coming in late Saturday, the Lantern Festival running in Albert Park and of course that cricket game.

Vector crews were on standby near the venue as it would have been difficult to move through the very dense traffic to get to an incident.

Crews will again be on standby for the games on March 7, March 14 and March 24.
Interestingly, India’s premier cricket ground is named Eden Gardens. Both grounds are named after the same family.

In 1834 Lord Auckland was First Lord of the Admiralty and among his favourites was Captain William Hobson who founded a small settlement on the banks of the Waitemata, naming it after his patron.

The bachelor Lord Auckland was in 1837 named Governor of India and was accompanied reluctantly by his unmarried sister Emily - who carried the family name, Eden.

Emily made her mark with her name being used to name a famous landmark; a garden on the banks of the Hoogley River (a branch of the mighty Ganges) known as Eden Gardens. The family name was used for Mt Eden and of course, Eden Park.

Network summary for week ending 1 March 2015
Electricity
Our contractors isolated power to two house fires in Glen Innes, and to a third residence in Greenlane, during the week. One of the houses in Glen Innes was referred to a private electrician for further work.

Power was also isolated for safety to two building fires in Henderson during the week. Emergency services informed our control room that they had evacuated one of these sites.

There was a car v pole in Conifer Grove and a car v pillar in Randwick Park during the week.

A Vector pole was replaced in Flat Bush during the week after reports of a feeder fault.

Gas

There were two cases of third party damage to our gas network during the week, in Torbay and Hamilton. Our service providers attended, and customer supplies were restored.

Projects

New technology from Switzerland is changing the way our crews perform gas leakage surveys. ‘SELMA’ (Street Evaluation Laser Methane Assessment) is a vehicle mounted gas detection unit that allows crews to detect gas leakage from a vehicle travelling at speeds of up to 50 km/h. This is a vast improvement on having crews cover areas by foot. SELMA can collect broader data, with GPS time, date and location stamps providing more certainty and accuracy around leakage events. SELMA’s speed and accuracy will change the way Vector carries out investigations on the gas network. While this technology has been used in some countries overseas, this is a first for New Zealand.

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