Members of the Rotary River Pathways Trust were in action last Friday, tools in hand, deconstructing the remains of CHB's Tarewa Swingbridge.
The bridge was destroyed in floods that raged through Hawke's Bay in March, taking rivers to one-in-50 year levels and causing extensive damage.
The swingbridge, which spanned the Tukituki River just downstream from Waipukurau and joined the northern and southern halves of Waipukurau's Tukituki Trails, was smashed from its moorings and left hanging, broken, once waters receded.
A week later the Hawke's Bay Regional Council pulled it from the river and deposited in the council's Waipukurau yard, where Rotarians set upon it early on Friday morning.
Pathways Trust chairman, Roy Fraser, explained that the components of the bridge could not be reused in a new bridge but would still come in handy.