{"id":580004,"date":"2026-08-25T16:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T16:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/580004\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T16:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T16:08:12","slug":"tackling-coastal-erosion-at-katiki-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/580004\/","title":{"rendered":"Tackling coastal erosion at Katiki Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Work continues on a $3\u2009million project at Katiki Beach to safeguard a vulnerable stretch of State Highway 1 from the threat of coastal erosion.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand Transport Agency Waka Kotahi (NZTA) announced it would be placing more \u201crock armour\u201d\u00a0along the high-risk 7km section of road in June this year.<\/p>\n<p>The southern-most rest area has been closed to the public since work began.<\/p>\n<p>Placing more large rocks along the beach was described by NZTA as the most practical and cost-effective option compared to moving the road inland, which would be \u201cextremely\u201d expensive and disruptive.<\/p>\n<p>Protection work first began in the 1970s and the coastal erosion threat to the key route has been monitored closely since then.<\/p>\n<p>The project was\u00a0expected to be completed within a year, NZTA said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Work continues on a $3\u2009million project at Katiki Beach to safeguard a vulnerable stretch of State Highway 1&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[273,111,139,69,147],"class_list":["post-580004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580004","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=580004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}