{"id":252932,"date":"2026-01-26T19:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T19:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/252932\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T19:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T19:45:07","slug":"giant-helena-bay-hill-slip-creates-20000-truckload-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/252932\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant Helena Bay Hill slip creates 20,000 truckload challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

The council has estimated it could take up to three months to repair.<\/p>\n

Flower said the slip material could not be pushed over the edge of the site at Russell Rd.<\/p>\n

The material would simply go downhill and sediment would flow into the settlement of Mokau and out to sea, he said.<\/p>\n

It also risked creating a dam, which could collapse and flood the tiny community northeast of Whang\u0101rei.<\/p>\n

Flower said sites for the debris were being investigated.<\/p>\n

These included local areas where a community wanted to build its whenua (land) above flood height or on suitable farm valleys.<\/p>\n

He said the job was not just about what could be seen on the road.<\/p>\n

There were big cracks in the land at the top of the slip.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe might have to go 50 to 100m back from the slip,\u201d he said of the nature of the repairs.<\/p>\n

Specialist equipment has been brought in to assess the slip.<\/p>\n

Flower said there was a huge amount of background planning\thappening.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople might think there\u2019s nothing going on because they can\u2019t see anything happening on the ground.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut there\u2019s a lot of preparation work being done.\u201d<\/p>\n

This included working with Northland Regional Council <\/a>on consenting processes.<\/p>\n

The last big Helena Bay Hill slip in 2007 took six months to clear.<\/p>\n

\u25a0 LDR is local body journalism co-funded by RNZ and NZ On Air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The council has estimated it could take up to three months to repair. Flower said the slip material…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[46871,1561,6636,85007,3470,146595,42333,13313,145081,31037,5971,111,43,139,69,36200,5196,64572,20210,146596,1533],"class_list":["post-252932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-46871","tag-bay","tag-challenge","tag-clay","tag-clear","tag-creates","tag-debris","tag-giant","tag-helena","tag-hill","tag-need","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-potentially","tag-removed","tag-slip","tag-truckload","tag-truckloads","tag-will"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}