Latest news
Updated 20 December 2023
- Tonkin + Taylor have completed assessments of One Mile Creek and Darley Drain catchments. Solutions have been workshopped with the Waihi Beach Stormwater Liaison Group late November. A number of options are being progressed to concept design.
- Two Mile Creek erosion works are progressing well. Stage 1 is expected to be completed in March 2024.
- Modelling of Two Mile Creek catchment and wider Waihi Beach community will be undertaken early in 2024 with solutions being developed following the modelling and workshop with the Waihi Beach Stormwater Liaison Group in March.
- Ongoing improvements to the maintenance of the stormwater network are being made.
Background
Waihī Beach is a special town, located in a unique environment - but that environment brings its own set of challenges for the people who live there. It’s low lying, with little to no natural drainage and is close to the coastline – these factors combined make it difficult to drain stormwater away from the town during heavy rain. Because of this, some areas of Waihī Beach will always have a level of flooding.
We’re working with the Waihī Beach community to prioritise and plan a range of projects that will help provide relief from flooding within the Northern catchments of the town. Our focus is on ensuring that we’re making progress on the most important projects as quickly as possible to keep you safe. Each upgrade is aligned with our agreed 'Level of Service' which is to protect habitable floors from flooding in a 10% Annual Exceedance Probability (AEP) event or 10% likelihood of an event occurring in any given year - meaning these projects should help reduce the frequency of flooding but are unlikely to eliminate all flooding.
These webpages will be your hub for the upcoming projects aimed at safeguarding the Waihī Beach community's future, and a list of what maintenance we’re doing regularly.