Solution for fixing access track to Blue Pool…

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blue-08Following was recently posted on TRM facebook:  Anglers please take note the Blue Pool car park access road is still only navigable by high clearance 4WD type vehicles (or rental cars?). The deep pot-holes on the track will damage mufflers of a normal family saloon. We have had complaints from anglers for over six months now and referred them all to the Taupo Fishery Managers…

Another local, Turangi’s bird rescue hero, Carol Harwood, suggested:

carol-harwood-turangi-bird-rescueIt is not a public road the prison department have given access for the public transport to use the road. The major users of the road are the heavy buses and trailers for rafters which have caused most of this damage. Maybe they should be the ones to contribute toward the repair??????
Another local angler immediately reacted with the perfect solution.
Could DOC arrange to use a truck load of shingle they have quarried from the lower Tongariro (Smallmans Reach on right) to fill in the pot holes on the Blue Pool track?
We asked him to send his request to Waikato Regional Council and DOC – the fishery managers.

img_5922What a perfect solution for the ‘authorities’ to win back some brownie points from anglers!

There is a big mound of shingle excavated from Downs Pool, now stock-piled at the end of Grace Road, just looking for some pot holes to fill in.  It should be so easy…

Part of the problem may be that it crossed over ‘private’ property owned by the Justice Department – which means anglers own it?

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Below – the rapid below Sand Pool…

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Below Big Bend Pool – park on Blue Pool access road 1.8 km from SH1.

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