The History of Maintenance Road

Reservoir Road and Maintenance Road intersection - 2024 - © wainuiomata.net

Maintenance Road (Upper Road), an unsealed road / firebreak, originally provided access to the old pipeline that once distributed water from the original dam. Though the road is still intact today, it is closed to the public, with a large locked gate preventing access for vehicles and pedestrians. The image above shows the road branching off Reservoir Road near the old dam. From here, the road runs parallel to Reservoir Road but higher up the hill, then eventually turns in a hairpin and climbs up to the top of the hill and heads along the ridge between Reservoir Valley and Moores Valley in the direction of Whitemans Valley. At one time, it also connected to Whitcher Grove off Moores Valley Road, but that section has since been abandoned and is now hidden within regenerating bush. Some refer to this stretch as Maintenance Track.

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