Two years on from the devastating Auckland Anniversary Weekend floods and Cyclone Gabrielle, Auckland Transport (AT)’s flood recovery team has now repaired 98 per cent of the slips that occurred on local roads in the ‘north rural’ area.
Across the Auckland region, more than 2000 slips on local roads were reported to AT after the weather events. This included 1200 smaller slips which were fixed fairly quickly. But more than 800 bigger slips required extensive investigation to inform sustainable and resilient engineering designs before any construction repair works could begin.
In the north rural area 323 of these complex slips needed repairing:
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256 minor (less than $250,000 to repair)
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67 major (more than $250,000 to repair).
By the end of February 2025, all minor slips and 62 major slips in the area had been repaired with two under construction and three more to go.
“It’s been a massive job, and we thank the people of Rodney for their continued patience, especially those communities dealing with long road closures,” said Alan Wallace, GM Road Asset Maintenance and Renewals at AT.
“A number of roads like Ahuroa Road, Krippner Road and Matakana Valley Road slipped in multiple places and required some pretty complex engineering solutions before construction could even begin. Then when our contractors did get on site they were often in tricky terrain and working in variable weather conditions.”
Mr Wallace says the north rural flood recovery programme is ahead of schedule and he’s confident the remaining slips will be repaired by mid-2025.
The three remaining north rural slip sites are:
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Pinchgut Road, Kaukapakapa (two sites)
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Dairy Flat Road, Dairy Flat (one site).
