Project PJK (Bay of Plenty) Mystery Cache

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Hidden : 7/29/2010
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
3 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:


Project PJK was the name given to the task of constructing the Routes P, J and K Expressways in Tauranga. The listed co-ordinates will take you to the footpath outside the office used by the project team from 1999. The Contractor Joint Venture team and the Engineers for the project worked from here. There is no longer any evidence at this office site, of these teams or the Project.

In 1999 construction began on Project PJK with the commencement of Route J and the extension of Route P. Route J was one of three interconnecting routes being built as part of Project PJK. It was officially opened in 2002. It is a four lane expressway 3.1km long and included the construction of five bridges. Route P is the four lane extension of Takitimu Drive and links into Route J. Route K began construction in 2000 and links Routes J and P with State Highway 29.

This project was, at the time, New Zealand’s largest ever single roading contract. It was the first partnership on this scale between Transit New Zealand and a District Council.

Other features:
• Total budget was $91 million.
• It used lightweight construction methods using pumice fill.
• 1.3 million cubic metres of soil was moved – that’s about 50 rugby fields piled 5m high!
• 12,500 cubic metres of concrete.
• 30,000 vertical wick drains.

The main contractor for the works was a Joint Venture between two companies.

The low lying area that this puzzle cache will take you through, was used as sediment control ponds to filter sediment-contaminated runoff generated from the construction site, prior to it’s discharge into a tributary of the nearby Kopurererua stream.


PJK cache instructions

You will need to do some research for some of the calculations for Waypoint 2 before going to the listed co-ordinates.

Go to Waypoint 1:
S 37 41.999; E 176 08.643

Waypoint 2 is:
S 37 A.BC; E 176 DF.GHJ


Where:
A = length of K Expressway x 10 - 3.

B. One of the Joint Venture contractor companies was F______ H_______.
B = the number of letters in these two words combined minus 11.

C = street number on the brick building at Waypoint 1 minus 22.

D = number of letters in the first name of the street that you’re on at Waypoint 1; minus 5

F = number of letters in the word that the ‘P’ of route P represents, minus 1.

G. The colour of the street number on the building's brick wall at
Waypoint 1 is ______.
G = The number of letters in this word.

H = the number letters in the vertical word by the handle on the glass door at Waypoint 1, minus 4.

J = number of letters in the one word that 'K' of K Expressway represents; minus 10.


Commence to Waypoint 2.

The final is located at:
S 37 LM.NQR; E 176 TU.VWX

Answers are found at Waypoint 2.

L = number of letters in the first word.

M = the numerical value of the month of the unveiling minus 3. (eg. December =12, May = 5)

N = the number of letters in the word on the plaque that means, a Maori land post or pillar that represents the relationship between Maori and the land.

Q = number of letters in the Maori name of this valley of tears (2 words combined), plus 1.

R= The last number in the year the plaque was unveiled, plus 6.

T = the fourth number in the 4 digit AD year.

U = the number of letters in the last name (4th word of 4) of the boat the ancestors used to come here.

V = the number of letters in the name of the island that the ancestors came from, minus 8.

W = the number of letters in the word after 'ancient' plus 2.

X = the date of the day of the unveiling, minus 1.

Commence to the final by using the paths that go around, rather than up.


CAUTIONS:

PLEASE treat this area with RESPECT because it has historical and Maori significance.

PLEASE use the existing paths around and up, rather than down the slopes.

A main road is nearby with vegetation and some fencing between the paths and the road – please take care with young children.

This cache may be best completed during daylight hours, due to some evidence in the vegetation of overnight stayers.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Chmmyr: tbbtyr pnpur gvgyr. A vf frpbaq jbeq. Svany: synk

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
-------------------------
N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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