Sean Plunket Complains to Wellington City Council About Leaking Fire Hydrant

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  • @kiwicam6419
    @kiwicam6419 9 місяців тому +42

    I'm already looking forward to your followup call to them on this in 2025 Sean. But don't worry, it will stop leaking when they run out of water. Sorted.

  • @raythomas8259
    @raythomas8259 9 місяців тому +20

    Wellington Council has ticked all the right multi cultural boxes and has trained all its staff in Diversity and Inclusivity but cannot fix a leaky fire hydrant. Just send some staff there at 2am to check it out when there is very little traffic and no buses...................

    • @dicky-duck6632
      @dicky-duck6632 9 місяців тому

      no way, let's finish the cycle ways first😅

  • @gypsysummer4008
    @gypsysummer4008 9 місяців тому +26

    Why the hell can't they put a night shift team in to do it when the roads are empty and the buses aren't running?
    Auckland has closed down the whole of the northern motorway overnight for over 4 weeks, so if they can do it why can't Wellington.

    • @MrGazawaza
      @MrGazawaza 9 місяців тому +4

      greens run city.

    • @MerikaBateman
      @MerikaBateman 9 місяців тому +2

      This sounds like you are being fobbed off regarding the leaking fire hydrant Sean.

    • @MerikaBateman
      @MerikaBateman 9 місяців тому

      Just more red tape and bureaucracy. Wondering why cant the fire hydrant be fixed at night

  • @johnnymookergee4935
    @johnnymookergee4935 9 місяців тому +16

    What’s even more revolting is that these 2 women make $93,000 a year with a pension

    • @morgan_kemp
      @morgan_kemp 9 місяців тому +2

      They don't earn $93,000 and have a pension. I know that for a fact. They are on about $64,000 and their pension is that same as you and I

  • @rocket78able
    @rocket78able 9 місяців тому +7

    Three waters would have created a whole lot more of these people doing nothing. In the meantime Wellington runs out of water.

  • @JeaneGenie
    @JeaneGenie 9 місяців тому +7

    So indicative of how NZ is now. A wonder anything can ever get done.

  • @RobertWhitefield-up9nz
    @RobertWhitefield-up9nz 9 місяців тому +6

    Good on you, Sean, for keeping these useless organisations accountable. You're doing a fantastic job!

  • @miekesmit7012
    @miekesmit7012 9 місяців тому +18

    Incompetence is so hard to fix. Close all at night! Job done. But the excuse of it being difficult, on top of water restrictions and Wellington being a 'green' environmentally friendly city it is contradictions all along tge way

  • @stewartbennett4829
    @stewartbennett4829 9 місяців тому +42

    The girl on the phone sounds about as bright as those who voted for Tori and the Green party.

    • @jasperhorace7147
      @jasperhorace7147 9 місяців тому +3

      That’s a better reply than I got from Wellington Water after my neighbours and I continued to report the leak at the end of our drive. “We know about that one,” they snapped.

    • @glenpiggott5815
      @glenpiggott5815 9 місяців тому +9

      She has no power, and is literally just answering a phone and entering data ,she has no other tools she can work with .its not her fault .she literally did everything she can to help .......Blaim the people in charge

    • @daddybob6096
      @daddybob6096 9 місяців тому +1

      @@glenpiggott5815 Exactly!

  • @Allstaris
    @Allstaris 9 місяців тому +16

    Is the fire hydrant system going to work properly when required for a FIRE? Or blow out completely?
    That is a safety hazard.
    Just imagine if this was on private property, the council would already have fined the owner.

    • @kiwicam6419
      @kiwicam6419 9 місяців тому +4

      Maybe we could organise a protest to close down the street. I fact, we could probably fix it ourselves.

    • @Allstaris
      @Allstaris 9 місяців тому

      @@kiwicam6419 We would be arrested for terrorism and willful damage, Being a white male in NZ i dare not gather in public and do something others may not agree with even if it's common sense.

  • @aranf7950
    @aranf7950 4 місяці тому +1

    Fun fact in Auckland. Firefighters are not allowed to check fire hydrants on behalf of Auckland council due to not having an approved traffic management plan.

  • @harrybaker6219
    @harrybaker6219 9 місяців тому +1

    Since council changed over to contract .instead of deadicated staff.nothing gets done

  • @brie7705
    @brie7705 9 місяців тому +12

    The long term damage to the building infrastructure, wiring etc under the road is a worry. It may cause a sink hole also like Auckland that appears to be a major problem. Also, could this leak pose a problem for firefighters in not being able to get an adequate amount of water to fight a fire in the inner city?? Maybe you could call Health and Safety on this?? Just an idea. Play them at their own game... Lol

  • @roberthooker4970
    @roberthooker4970 9 місяців тому +5

    The City employee was fantastic. You can see the quality of staff is welk educated.

  • @JohanThiart
    @JohanThiart 9 місяців тому +11

    People who cannot tie their own shoelaces get rewarded for telling stories about climate change (or whatever) that fit the going narrative.
    Worked there, done that……
    Fixed the leaks, told the stories about climate change, generated business cases, tried to encourage management to wear shoes without laces…… it is a f…….. hard job Sean.

  • @peterwiles1299
    @peterwiles1299 9 місяців тому +3

    Buses getting cancelled? Water supply getting cancelled? A complex choice? Well beyond any public servant?

  • @Seemorerocks97
    @Seemorerocks97 9 місяців тому +3

    Thank you for this. What a clusterf*ck!

  • @howsmydriving-ei2yn
    @howsmydriving-ei2yn 9 місяців тому +6

    Too busy spending money on cycle lanes, pedestrian friendly areas, speed bumps and rainbow flags

  • @EricSouthgate-c6d
    @EricSouthgate-c6d 9 місяців тому +12

    Has anyone made the connection between these leaks and the water shortage or do we blame climate change 😂

    • @FinnDelMundoTravel
      @FinnDelMundoTravel 9 місяців тому

      All of that probably combined as well as mass immigration trying to leach off 1960s infrastructure. The cluster fk is beyond belief.

  • @FinnDelMundoTravel
    @FinnDelMundoTravel 9 місяців тому +5

    That phone voice greeting needs to drop the woke maori virtue signalling. Sick of it.

  • @tuliiscute
    @tuliiscute 9 місяців тому +6

    I have found the easiest way to get the job done by the Council is to email the Council and CC it to a Councillor known for getting stuff done and following up on things.

    • @garrethoien6666
      @garrethoien6666 9 місяців тому

      Unfortunately that sets a precedence. Jumping to the wish of a councilor isn't the best way to prioritize.

    • @tuliiscute
      @tuliiscute 9 місяців тому

      @@garrethoien6666 Well, it works. From the call, it is obvious they are not working properly. The Councillors are there to advocate for their constituents and in some cases cut through the red tape or inability to get the job done.

    • @garrethoien6666
      @garrethoien6666 9 місяців тому

      @tuliiscute I understand and i agree that ratepayers are entitled to champion their cause. My point is that if Councilors " get stuff done" based on the last email compliant, 1 it's not a complete picture and 2 they have crossed over from a governance role the were elected to do into a daily operations role.

    • @tuliiscute
      @tuliiscute 9 місяців тому +2

      @@garrethoien6666 There is also the fact that it works as a subtle threat. That if they do not get their butt into gear and fix the problem, they will be forced to come up with answers as to why they have not done their job. In this case, I doubt that "It takes over a year to liaise with other departments" would be a satisfactory answer.

    • @garrethoien6666
      @garrethoien6666 9 місяців тому

      @tuliiscute I understand the squeaky wheel mentality. Quick search of Wellington Water website shows them having replaced 1665m of leaking pipe from 1 project alone in the last 12 months saving alot more water than the hydrant leak, there were 4 to 6 other projects aswell. I'd suggest the prioritization of those projects is the reason that the hydrant still leaks. My point is a good Councilor should first look at the current achievement against the projects identified in the L.T.P, then in this case, be able to ignore the subtle threat knowing the works being done it a prioritized manner

  • @davidscott4045
    @davidscott4045 4 місяці тому

    Who has been in control of spending OUR money, hold them accountable, if they cant do their jobs properly then fire them. And bill them for their fu*k ups

  • @dufus7396
    @dufus7396 9 місяців тому +14

    For starters get rid rid of the cringy woke moari lauguage welcoming..there youve gained 5 seconds already...multiply that by all future calls and weve gained days...use that gained time to do your job..youre welcome

    • @daedalus7677
      @daedalus7677 9 місяців тому

      A few years ago, I phoned my local regional council on a Saturday morning about oil 'leaking' into a river, leaving a huge oil slick. In the ensuing conversation about 'where', exactly, the call-taker was more concerned with my pronunciation of Maori place names! Late Saturday afternoon, somebody came to look, said that all resources to fix were unavailable because it was the weekend, and that they'd try looking during the upcoming week. Since then, all 'point outs' of issues to regional council staff on site by the river for whatever their original purpose have been met with, 'Don't know, not my job'! They couldn't give a monkeys!!! 😱

  • @yogibear4682
    @yogibear4682 9 місяців тому +9

    They dont really give a damn is their real answer.

  • @pantslangford1976
    @pantslangford1976 9 місяців тому +2

    Each year it isn't fixed you should send them a birthday card
    , present balloons etc. Would be a good PR stunt.

  • @tomobedlam297
    @tomobedlam297 9 місяців тому +5

    Auckland Watercare is no better. I lived by a stream in Otahuhu which feeds into the Tamaki estuary. Someone upstream kept dumping bright orange paint (and sometimes white paint) into it on a weekly basis. I took photos and videos of it happening and even collected water samples to show Watercare. I was told it was just dirt in the water washed in from recent rain. This would happen when it hadn't rained for days. After reporting it a dozen times I gave up bothering. It kept happening and nothing was ever done about it.

  • @allaboutstress
    @allaboutstress 9 місяців тому +1

    Brilliant. A council system that keeps everyone isolated and uninformed. What’s new. Nice one Sean. I’d like to see more of these examples of tracking down the whatever.

  • @valeriehughes1008
    @valeriehughes1008 9 місяців тому +5

    Sean your phone call could have come straight out of a Bob Newhardt sketch! One of his funniest was a sketch he did in the late 1960's where he was looking out of his apartment window to see a woman hanging out of a window in the department store opposite and he was trying to alert the department store about her... he was shunted from department to department, put on hold, canned music and endless mind numbingly dumb people to repeat his complaint to! Take some time and source it and have a laugh - obviously WCC and the Newhardt Dept. store staff went to the same training school!

  • @maieldmik5233
    @maieldmik5233 9 місяців тому +5

    Maybe they could send the young lady who had nothing to do at work so tiktokd herself "slacking off" a few days back.

  • @craigsnook3605
    @craigsnook3605 9 місяців тому +5

    Wow. What a glorious example of buck passing. Yep uhuh yep mmmmhmmmm lol. This is local bodies in a nutshell. Utter chaos and completely useless.

  • @waronwoke
    @waronwoke 9 місяців тому

    No money for water repairs, just boozy lunches for the Mayor???

  • @RayK236
    @RayK236 9 місяців тому +2

    No funding to fix water leaks, That's what some Wellington water guys say...... Don't help with all the new builds and no upgrades to any infrastructure.

  • @RobertSingers
    @RobertSingers 9 місяців тому +1

    One year is rookie numbers. There's been 100s of Litres of water leaking outside my house for two years.

  • @grantedgar1844
    @grantedgar1844 9 місяців тому

    Bring in a team from Thailand or Japan. They would have it fixed while we sleep.

  • @douglasvoon9981
    @douglasvoon9981 9 місяців тому +1

    Just around the corner from 69 Manners Street on Victoria Street is another leak which I notice on my daily cycle commute home. And over the years numerous other examples come to mind that I've never seen getting promptly dealt with. The level of incompetence is off the charts and this phone call made that clearly obvious. Calling for level 2 restrictions is such a joke when they can't themselves restrict water lost through laziness and gross mismanagement!

  • @markcoster687
    @markcoster687 9 місяців тому +1

    Looks like Wellington City Council needs to take some responsibility

  • @roberthooker4970
    @roberthooker4970 9 місяців тому +2

    S Plunket you need to speak to W Peters and his fellow MP (former Mayor).

  • @chriskiwi2601
    @chriskiwi2601 9 місяців тому +2

    Sean, this appears how most councils operate. I reported a water leak in north Waikato 3 times and there was always some sort of excuse. Nine months later it got fixed.

  • @TheWarAtHome
    @TheWarAtHome 9 місяців тому

    Good God......ridiculous...

  • @urbanegorilla6005
    @urbanegorilla6005 9 місяців тому +2

    Do the Fire Department need to get planning permission to access the hydrant when there is an actual fire?

    • @garrethoien6666
      @garrethoien6666 9 місяців тому

      Difference between a Emergency and planned work. If the hydrant collapsed and form a 1m wide hole that would fit into the Emergency category

  • @lisalee6363
    @lisalee6363 5 місяців тому

    Now then public service is soooooooo slow, or they are nice, but not DO it😮😮😮

  • @Andrew-vd2ko
    @Andrew-vd2ko 9 місяців тому +2

    Don't forget that EVERYTHING you say while waiting IS RESCORED.....

  • @twotwonz2288
    @twotwonz2288 9 місяців тому +4

    theres no excuse to run a dept like this ever!

    • @roberthooker4970
      @roberthooker4970 9 місяців тому

      If they increased water charges they would have more work crews. Recall right wing economics reduced the councils resources. The person outline the legal process.
      Will the MP for Epsom do anything? He has held his position for many dsys but no action has been done on this water leak.

    • @daedalus7677
      @daedalus7677 9 місяців тому

      @@roberthooker4970 Careful! This lot would use any excuse to increase water charges, and then STILL not do anything about the leak(s). This is more about bureaucracy than Left/Centre/Right leanings.

  • @gracegreen2003
    @gracegreen2003 9 місяців тому +1

    The woman on the phone acted like it was perfectly reasonable 😔

  • @kenmckay5578
    @kenmckay5578 9 місяців тому

    Thats why local govnt bodies and services are in debt millions of dollars ,and infrastructure is collapsing around us ! Pathetic, overstructured ,bumbling beurocracy at play , but they at least have a file number ! 😂

  • @gsd4me00
    @gsd4me00 9 місяців тому +2

    "Yep, yep", where have I heard that before?

  • @roberthooker4970
    @roberthooker4970 9 місяців тому +1

    I suggest you ask the MP and former Mayor who is part of the government and W Peters . Recall these parties have confidence in local government . 3 waters reforms aimed to give resource at local authority level.

    • @jasperhorace7147
      @jasperhorace7147 9 місяців тому +1

      Now that Golly seems to have owned up to shoplifting, because of stress and mental health problems, I believe parliament is about to get yet another of Wellington’s useless mayoral rejects. Celia Wade Brown‼

  • @jonathanwright5550
    @jonathanwright5550 9 місяців тому +1

    Wellington council publicly said they ran out of budget to fix all the leaks....

  • @luisePisces
    @luisePisces 9 місяців тому +2

    Tory Whanau is too busy on the plonk to worry about these things shes got partying to do wellington.

  • @neillewis785
    @neillewis785 9 місяців тому +2

    same in CH CH Sean ,i walk the dog daily as cringe as i see the water running down the drains ,from leaks .Sure they send out their people to fix them eventually.But more than often a few days later they are leaking again.Ironic really when they try to bill you for using a bit extra water .Something that should be stopped when 25% of the properties dont even have meters installed and could be using hundreds of thousands of litres over their allowance.

  • @druckerman247
    @druckerman247 9 місяців тому

    This bird is so calm. Kinda like red tape in a voice. Delightful.

  • @sueedwards9334
    @sueedwards9334 9 місяців тому +1

    That is awful, almost flooding. First girl on phone: oh, um, yeah, um, ok, yeah, I’ll pop you through now. Second girl sounded like she’d had lots of irate citizens complaining about water leaks.

  • @NzLand3r
    @NzLand3r 9 місяців тому +2

    Before you fix something STOP! have you considered A,B,C,D,& E? and consulted department J,K,L,M,N and O? Take a step back!

  • @JohanThiart
    @JohanThiart 9 місяців тому +5

    That is totally useless.
    That hydrant problem can probably be resolved by checking the valve. That means a serviceman turns up at the site and check the valve using a hydrant key, “spanner”.
    I was quite impressed when I reported a problem here in Sydney. AI checked the problem and reported back to me in seconds. It became apparent to me that AI reported back on a related problem (leak) that was fixed earlier in the day and that it was confused.
    I added another comment and the leaking hydrant was fixed pronto.

  • @pgreen8531
    @pgreen8531 9 місяців тому +1

    More bullshit than you would hear in a normal day in parliament utterly ridiculous

  • @terryvanderhoeven2148
    @terryvanderhoeven2148 9 місяців тому +2

    Shopping for shoes in Wellington, just outside The Last Footwear Company on 41 Cuba Street, I noticed water was welling up through the gobble stone pavement. Quite a significant leak. This was about 2 litres per minute at a guess. I wonder if that's been fixed?

  • @glenpiggott5815
    @glenpiggott5815 9 місяців тому +4

    You just found out why infrastructure issue take so long to fix ,the red tape health and safety and other priorities get in the way

  • @hartley9958
    @hartley9958 9 місяців тому +1

    A mayor thats basically part of the Green party expect more issues than this...

  • @brucenicoll4373
    @brucenicoll4373 9 місяців тому +1

    Looks fantastic there is a drain

  • @callumjohnstone9311
    @callumjohnstone9311 9 місяців тому +1

    I suppose the fire service also needs to give notice to all those other organisations before they can have access to in road fire hydrants??? Lol what a joke

  • @chrisball6900
    @chrisball6900 Місяць тому

    Total incompetence and duck-shoving. Inept management, inept organisation, at a time when the same inept council are saying there's a water shortage. Unbelievable!

  • @jenniferwasley4309
    @jenniferwasley4309 9 місяців тому +2

    So, if there is a fire, would the fire department need to get permissions to shut everything down including the buses before they fight the fire , unbelievable Council garbage ,

  • @andreatodd3095
    @andreatodd3095 9 місяців тому +1

    😂wouldn't the fire service want it fixed....it's a health and safety issue with roading.....incredible, a quick inspection would tell them what is required to fix it.

  • @benzchew
    @benzchew 9 місяців тому +1

    Have a chat to a fire engineer to see if your local fire brigade could still use it if your building was on fire Sean and if not what would be the consequences ie time delay getting water from next hydrant

  • @HunkyMan777
    @HunkyMan777 9 місяців тому +3

    Theae council people sound really dumb. She was so out od her league

  • @rdy3820
    @rdy3820 9 місяців тому +1

    50 cent washer + H&s $$$$$. H&S is what people wanted, this is what you get.

  • @tonynicholson3328
    @tonynicholson3328 9 місяців тому +2

    A stitch in time....😢

  • @nathankerr9824
    @nathankerr9824 9 місяців тому +2

    Monty Phython

  • @tronwars7130
    @tronwars7130 9 місяців тому +1

    But at least you will get a free sinkhole with that in another year or to.

  • @imbtmn9836
    @imbtmn9836 9 місяців тому +1

    Sounds like ex Boeing employees.

  • @jeremyashford2145
    @jeremyashford2145 9 місяців тому +1

    It would probably have been cheapest to make the repair on Christmas Day.
    Do they run buses in the early hours in Wellington.

  • @hughheeney3554
    @hughheeney3554 9 місяців тому +2

    Why are the rate payers complaining, after all the council is busy spending your money on nice to have things like cycle lanes, bus lanes, etc. After all you voted for this and I assume Wellington is only doing what the voters want.

  • @tonycooper14
    @tonycooper14 9 місяців тому +1

    The left hand not talking to The right hand.

  • @tomhoro6468
    @tomhoro6468 9 місяців тому +1

    Go down confront them watch what happens they switch off how to waste your time

  • @stephenprice-o6j
    @stephenprice-o6j 9 місяців тому

    SOMEONE SHOULD RING THE WELLINGTON CITY COUNCIL AND REPORT THE BIG LEAK IN THE SEWER PIPE OUTSIDE THE MAYOR'S OFFICE.....

  • @waterbourne9282
    @waterbourne9282 9 місяців тому +1

    I can hear Ronald Reagan formulating a joke on this.

  • @roberthooker4970
    @roberthooker4970 9 місяців тому +3

    During your phone call you should have identified yourself as media and that call was beginning broardcast live. Ethics!

  • @nielshansen8029
    @nielshansen8029 9 місяців тому

    Brown would get it done

  • @williamearnshaw410
    @williamearnshaw410 9 місяців тому

    Maori want control of the water...let them pay to fix it...😂

  • @honeyholly001
    @honeyholly001 9 місяців тому

    With gvt organizations unless regulatory pressures are put on them to deliver to time-frames (with penalties to senior leadership) there is just no incentive to deliver more than mediocre results.

  • @Millektm
    @Millektm 9 місяців тому +3

    Good god ! what an absolute bloody disgrace,Monty Pythons Flying service new series.

  • @kiwicam6419
    @kiwicam6419 9 місяців тому +4

    Intermingled incompetencies. It's gets exponentially more difficult when 2 or more incompetent organisations try to work together. Meanwhile... water shortages. Could never have predicted. 🤷🏼‍♂️

  • @chrismitchell4295
    @chrismitchell4295 9 місяців тому

    Lazy people ffs are you waiting for it to blow! And you have water rationing😅😅😅😅😅

  • @bronzie59
    @bronzie59 9 місяців тому +1

    We all know tge council is useless but not surprising as a fish stinks from the head

  • @myfathersdaughter324
    @myfathersdaughter324 9 місяців тому +1

    People don't like having to deal with water restrictions because of Wellington waters incompetence either little lady, nevermind that people don't like to have their buses redirected. Ah ha, yep. 😀 😉

  • @HowardMansell
    @HowardMansell 9 місяців тому

    She just doesn't see the racism, inequality and devisivness in Labour's policies.

  • @bjh05
    @bjh05 9 місяців тому +2

    If it's $700 thousand to move a bus stop 100 metres up the road in Hamilton. A fire hydrant repair got to be half a million. They are just working out how to stack the invoice up.

  • @mra4955
    @mra4955 9 місяців тому

    why they all sound like they in high school

  • @daddybob6096
    @daddybob6096 9 місяців тому +1

    Hettie's boss should have been the person you were addressing about this water leak, Sean?

  • @Pete-z6e
    @Pete-z6e 9 місяців тому +1

    Bleak house.

  • @garrethoien6666
    @garrethoien6666 9 місяців тому

    Likely that the team has a committed 1 to 3 year forwards work program capital upgrade plus renewal. So the question is, do you rearrange those activities for a leak.

  • @paulmcewen
    @paulmcewen 9 місяців тому +1

    Start at the top get rid of an incompetent mayor who is getting paid more than the Prime Minister, and work your your way down the muppet ladder.

  • @jeremyashford2145
    @jeremyashford2145 9 місяців тому +4

    Sean,
    I think you were talking to a diversity hire.

    • @jeremyashford2145
      @jeremyashford2145 9 місяців тому +1

      Note that she used the same word for nought and zero while quoting the reference number.
      That becomes important when you have to type them into a computer.

  • @HunkyMan777
    @HunkyMan777 9 місяців тому +1

    Is that the one in Manners Street?

  • @SquintsyBJones
    @SquintsyBJones 9 місяців тому +5

    Be careful Sean, I called WCC a couple of years ago about a water leak in the street outside my place in Hataitai - they came around and fixed it, then sent me a bill for $150.

    • @mikeholling8830
      @mikeholling8830 9 місяців тому +7

      Hope you told them what to do with their bill.🤬

  • @gayjacob1657
    @gayjacob1657 9 місяців тому

    The 60's, 70's, 80's when we had our own borough councils a leak would have been fixed in 24hrs, back then new subdivisions infrastructure was worked out and sorted, proper personnel were in charge, few companies like Neil Housings, Universal Homes, Keith Hay Homes, Lockwood, hundreds of Houses got built, State Housing, Maori Affairs department got NZ'ERS in to their new homes on easy repayments..., where's it all gone,? We have to live together somehow get our mojo back, and leave the pass and move forward, and if it takes a Treaty REFERENDUM l'm for it.

  • @cletusburst4188
    @cletusburst4188 9 місяців тому

    what happens when your building has a fire and the hydrant doesn't function properly?

  • @roberthooker4970
    @roberthooker4970 9 місяців тому +1

    S Plunket you need to reach a little.

  • @karensayer3089
    @karensayer3089 9 місяців тому

    Shes a spinner of tales.She couldn't care less.

  • @fredsmith3099
    @fredsmith3099 9 місяців тому

    Tory Whanau should be talking calls. She’s more suited to call center work I feel.