The Ō Mahurangi-Penlin road project near Auckland is progressing, with major earthworks nearly complete. Photo / Alex Robertson
The Ō Mahurangi-Penlin road project near Auckland is progressing, with major earthworks nearly complete. Photo / Alex Robertson
The pillars for the bridge that will span the Weiti River as part of the Ō Mahurangi-Penlink road of regional significance loom over Stillwater, north of Auckland.
The alignment of the 7km road is beginning to show across green fields and through stands of forest after a huge amountof work digging, earthmoving and blasting.
“Out of 1.3 million cubes [1,300,000 cubic metres of earth], we’re at about 1.1, so about 200,000 remaining,” Dane Gray, earthworks manager for the project, said in a recent update.
“We’re currently in our last big push and entering the final season.
“Our team has done a stellar job pioneering their way through the forest here and connecting us back to the other side of Ō Mahurangi-Penlink.”
And below ground nearly 2500m of drainage has been installed from a total of over 12,000; 377,000 of 1,148,000 plants are in the ground; two of six bridges have been completed; and more than 2300 tonnes of waste has been recycled.
The pillars for the bridge that will span the Weiti River as part of the Ō Mahurangi-Penlink road of regional significance loom over Stillwater, north of Auckland. Photo / Alex Robertson
The Weiti River bridge will run 535m (including approaches), with the bridge span 171m (between pillars), flying 45m above the river (about the same as the Harbour Bridge).
“The road’s pretty vital [as] it takes a lot of pressure off Silverdale,” Gray added.
