{"id":259504,"date":"2026-01-30T15:29:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T15:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/259504\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T15:29:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T15:29:12","slug":"beach-carpark-and-campsite-near-whanganui-closed-over-erosion-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/259504\/","title":{"rendered":"Beach carpark and campsite near Whanganui closed over erosion fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"vwaNpWtPaxhXkxNi\" style=\"display:none\">Council chief infrastructure officer Lance Kennedy told the Chronicle in 2023 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/whanganui-chronicle\/news\/how-much-kai-iwi-beach-cliffs-are-creeping-inland\/VKLYYLM6LFEENI5WFZAYXOMXEI\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/whanganui-chronicle\/news\/how-much-kai-iwi-beach-cliffs-are-creeping-inland\/VKLYYLM6LFEENI5WFZAYXOMXEI\/\">that the entire coastline \u2013 both cliffs and beaches<\/a> \u2013 was retreating landwards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vwaNpWtPaxhXkxNi\" style=\"display:none\">It was a natural process that had been ongoing since the Tasman Sea reached its current elevation about 7500 years ago, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vwaNpWtPaxhXkxNi\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cReports indicate the Kai Iwi coast has retreated a significant distance over the last few thousand years, at a rate of about 30 to 50 metres per century.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vwaNpWtPaxhXkxNi\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cFuture sea level rise is likely to aggravate existing erosion rates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"vwaNpWtPaxhXkxNi\" style=\"display:none\">Last month, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/whanganui-chronicle\/news\/how-to-stay-safe-in-the-water-across-whanganui-this-summer\/7D22KOFW3BHETFJ2ACLRH64NZM\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/whanganui-chronicle\/news\/how-to-stay-safe-in-the-water-across-whanganui-this-summer\/7D22KOFW3BHETFJ2ACLRH64NZM\/\">Whanganui Surf Lifeguard Service lifeguard co-ordinator<\/a> Olivia Bedwell said beachgoers should stay away from the Kai Iwi cliffs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vwaNpWtPaxhXkxNi\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThey are constantly eroding, and are not safe to approach, climb, or sit beneath,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vwaNpWtPaxhXkxNi\" style=\"display:none\">Mike Tweed is a multimedia journalist at the Whanganui Chronicle. Since starting in March 2020, he has dabbled in everything from sport to music. At present his focus is local government, primarily Whanganui District Council.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Council chief infrastructure officer Lance Kennedy told the Chronicle in 2023 that the entire coastline \u2013 both cliffs&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,95,7972,1558,18987,15357,26665,12636,5201,52151,28164,24267,3180,111,43,139,69,1523,1857,81566,13558,1883,21083],"class_list":["post-259504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-and","tag-beach","tag-been","tag-camping","tag-campsite","tag-carpark","tag-cliff","tag-closed","tag-erosion","tag-fears","tag-freedom","tag-near","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-over","tag-site","tag-temporarily","tag-wall","tag-whanganui","tag-whanganuis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259504","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=259504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}