{"id":511963,"date":"2026-07-06T06:37:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T06:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/511963\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T06:37:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T06:37:11","slug":"sunlive-1000-properties-without-power-in-tauranga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/511963\/","title":{"rendered":"SunLive &#8211; 1000 properties without power in Tauranga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 1000 Tauranga customers are without power after a tree brought down lines on Oropi Rd this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>A Powerco spokesperson said the outage was reported at 2.18pm after a tree fell on power lines, initially affecting 1004 customers.<\/p>\n<p>Properties in \u014chauiti, \u014cropi, Poike and Parkvale were impacted.<\/p>\n<p>The outage comes after a wet morning in Tauranga.<\/p>\n<p>MetService recorded 12mm of rain today, including more than 9mm between 6am and 7am.<\/p>\n<p>Powerco said it was too early to provide an estimated restoration time as crews assessed the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Customers can track the latest information through Powerco\u2019s outage map, while anyone who sees downed power lines is urged to keep clear and report the hazard immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 1000 Tauranga customers are without power after a tree brought down lines on Oropi Rd this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-511963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511963","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=511963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}