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From Sues Notes after a meeting with the Minister and CERA.
If you’re into statistics grab hold of these.
We have to completely replace about 300km of our sewer network. We have
to repair 600km of roading network and replace more besides. Add into
that our water and stormwater damage and with the Crown’s help we will
be spending $500million per annum for five years. That is ten times what
the CCC normally spends on capital expenditure. It is enormous.
We learnt too more about the timeline for CERA’s Recovery Strategy and
Recovery Plans. There will be a formal public process which starts
sometime in June. Full community engagement will be sought, and the
‘shareanidea’ material provided to the council is feeding into that
second process.
We saw charts which indicated the city’s land has moved permanently,
both up and down. The Port Hills have gone up, the rest of the city has
gone down. It has spun clockwise to varying degrees right across the
city. The estuary has moved upwards as much as two metres. It’s
shallower. At some point we will have to make a call about how to handle
that.
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