An initial consultation exercise was completed in May 2008, inviting Stakeholders to provide insight of areas or specific sites where they believed hazards pose a significant risk to the highway and its users. The particular issues of concern within the feedback is summarised as follows:
- Coastal erosion threatened sections of SH 6 are of major concern and considered more pressing than flooding issues, with the visual and landscape impact from coastal protection works considered the most significant worry. Future work should be cognisant of sea level rise;
- A general concern of losing long sections of highway to flood events in particular adjacent to the stopbanks of Waitangitanoa and Waiho;
- Flooding, erosion and landslip following major Storm events and the reliance on emergency works provisions of the RMA;
- Visitors using the highway are generally ignorant of the hazards that exist with the result of elevating the risk (consequences) posed by that hazard; and
- Extended closure of SH 6 would have significant impact on the community and as such is of major concern to the Stakeholders.
Last updated: 10 November 2009
