{"id":596216,"date":"2026-09-10T16:14:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T16:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/596216\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T16:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T16:14:12","slug":"papamoa-sinkhole-2m-deep-tomo-opens-on-kapuka-st-after-wastewater-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/596216\/","title":{"rendered":"P\u0101p\u0101moa sinkhole: 2m-deep tomo opens on Kapuka St after wastewater damage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bay of Plenty Times<\/p>\n<p>10 Sep, 2026 04:00 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">A sinkhole has opened up in P\u0101p\u0101moa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A 2m-deep sinkhole has formed in P\u0101p\u0101moa. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Tauranga City Council drainage services manager Radleigh Cairns said the sinkhole, also known as a tomo, formed on Kapuka St near Hebe Crescent following damage to a wastewater main. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Cairns said the tomo was about 2m deep and was reported to<br \/>\n         the council about 11am on Wednesday.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cA wastewater line has been damaged, and surrounding soil entered the pipe, causing the sinkhole to form,\u201d Cairns said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">Council contractors were on site making the area safe and assessing the damage to determine the repairs required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bay of Plenty Times 10 Sep, 2026 04:00 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":596217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[293843,74,22510,125679,293844,111,43,139,69,90,2680,23282,36655,11420,67476,78597],"class_list":["post-596216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-2mdeep","tag-after","tag-damage","tag-formed","tag-kapuka","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-opens","tag-ppmoa","tag-sinkhole","tag-st","tag-tomo","tag-wastewater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596216","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=596216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}