When Garin college pupils Jake Beekmeyer, 15 and Archie Osborne Bartlett, 16 saw their local park in Atawhai flooding they jumped in to action to prevent further disaster.
The pair, along with Atawhai Drive resident Gav Goodall, spent much of Friday afternoon digging and moving a large amount of rock and gravel that had accumulated at Corder Park, Atawhai.
They were concerned that come high tide, if the water had nowhere else to go, it would push back through the park and spill onto the road, flooding residents of Atahwai and Rainbow Drives.
So they used the gravel to make a form of stop-bank.
Gav had the day off work because he was blocked in by a slip, so he thought he may as well put his time to good use.
Jake and Archie though the same.
“I came at 11 and with hightide at 3pm, we thought we need to clear some of this gravel and branches etc to stop it going out onto the road,” Jake said.
“Every little bit is definitely making headway.”
Jake spent Thursday door-knocking to check on some of the elderly residents in the area.
