WAIKATO DISTRICT COUNCIL COASTAL HAZARDS Technical Report
- Author
- Bronwen Gibberd, Jim Dahm
- Editor
- FOCUS
- Year
- 2020
- Journal / Source
- Focus Report
- Publisher / Organisation
- Waikato District Council
- Number
- 20/130
- Pages
- 120
- Keywords
- Coastal hazards assessment, Waikato District
- Summary
- The Waikato District Council (“the Council”) is currently reviewing and updating the Waikato District Plan (“the Plan”), including integration of the Waikato and Franklin Sections of the current Plan. The separate sections are the result of the dissolution of the former Franklin District Council and the subsequent amalgamation of the southern portion of the Franklin District into the Waikato District in 2010. Focus Resource Management Group has been commissioned by the Council to define areas potentially vulnerable to coastal erosion and coastal flooding in the Waikato District. This study has included a District wide broad scale coastal hazard assessment and management recommendations, and a more detailed assessment of hazards and management approaches for Raglan and Port Waikato. Identified hazard areas include areas of greatest risk with existing sea level, and additional areas that could be affected with projected sea level rise over the next 100 years.