You know the drill

This drilling rig has been making its way around the neighborhood for the last few weeks. Now it’s on our street.

The water company sent us a notice of upcoming exploratory works, and so I suppose this is that. They seem to work in one spot for a day or two and then move a few hundred meters and start over. Probably they’re sending cameras into the pipes as well as looking at soil structures so they know what needs replacing and how tricky it will be to make everything solid. As the recent sewer line failure across town reminded everyone, the ground moves!

It seems to take 3-4 people to do the actual drilling work and a whole bunch more to (rather languidly) manage the traffic. And also a couple guys to just sit in trucks with the engine running. And supervisors visit sometimes. And the orange cones, Auckland’s official flower, have to be set up and put back each day by a subcontractor.