Students from Tutira School got to see big trucks, diggers, road signs, soil anchors and lots of big boulders up close last week in a site visit organised by Transport Rebuild East Coast (Trec).
Trec engineers, health and safety staff, traffic management crews and environmental teams visited the school and talked about the work they do, before taking senior students for a site visit south of the school to Devil’s Elbow on State Highway 2.
“Devil’s Elbow is a complex piece of recovery work,” said Trec Hawke’s Bay area manager Andrew Shannon.
“We have, understandably, seen a lot of interest from the local community about what is happening, and we wanted to lift the lid on the activity at the Devil’s Elbow site.
“Before the site visit, our environmental adviser Mel Tran-Trung ran a fun PH scale test with material sourced from the elbow itself.