Local Democracy Reporter Brendon McMahon got a tour of the mothballed dredge with Birchfield - before his own councillors signed a requisition to remove him as chairman. Since about 2013 the dredge has been idle, but its mere presence has caused a bit of a flap lately - and will potentially be the downfall of West Coast Regional Council chairman Allan Birchfield. For more than 30 years it has floated amidst a riverscape dominated by the moody Paparoa Range to the west, and between the villages of Blackball and Ngahere on opposite sides of the river. The Grey Valley gold dredge sits like a giant bulwark in the Grey River. The 'bow' of the dredge complete with the improvised gangway to land, made out of flat-deck railway wagons joined together.
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