Council has fixed artificial lake that floods Chinese gardens - or has it?
An artificial lake that has flooded Ross Chinese Memorial Gardens has been fixed, according to one council - but another disagrees.
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An artificial lake that has flooded Ross Chinese Memorial Gardens has been fixed, according to one council - but another disagrees.
The West Coast Regional Council is taking a closer look at the row over the Ross lake, where someone has been dismantling a weir built by volunteers to control the lake levels after continual flooding of the new Chinese Miners Memorial gardens. The pagoda in the Ross Memorial gardens. The lake level rose to the top of the seat when a slip changed the flow in a local creek. Photo: LDR / Lois Williams The group, headed by Ross woman Biddy Manera, has been moving rocks by hand to channel some of the flow from Jones Creek away from the artificial lake, and stop further damage to the gardens.