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The Manly St north erosion was started in 1994 by KCDC's action so they have a cheek to 'predict' the demise of the area. They also have a Coastal Systems report that is based on faulty maths with a peer reviewer who is an associate of said company! Hmmmmm? The KCDC 1999 State of the Environment states 'Further monitoring has shown that since November 1994 when the sand was moved, there has been accretion at all parts of the Paraparaumu headland except at the north end of Manly Street. ' Good one guys! And Jenny tells them it's time to 'lawyer up'. They may well do and then who pays, Kapiti ratepayers.
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Of course it is possible to undo arbitrary council coastal bunk, as they recently have in NSW. The IPCC 2007 report has become, in many ways, obsolete information. Yet that very 2007 report was used as a standard in the Kapiti coastal hazard report. Latest peer reviewed papers confirm sea level rises in the past ten years have tapered off by a considerable percentage.
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Yeah. It seems that there's a lot that is not known. Unfortunately it's hard to battle the council and the media. The Listener have an article that is to be released in two day spreading the fear. It seems the tsunami of global warming hype is about to hit NZ councils big time. It's hard to look at the accreting dunes and accept the plummeting house values.Comment
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Well the Coastal Ratepayers United have prevailed. The Coastal Hazard Lines have been removed from the affected LIMS. I'm very happy with this news. In my view the coastal hazard lines were strictly ideologically driven politics. I am delighted that our community stood up to it in such an effective & consultative manner.Comment
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Yes ridiculous stress put on the property owners - they probably deserve compensation (discounted rates for year or similar) given the expenses they have incurred fighting the Council and having to put in the sea walls which really should have been a council expense.
cheers,
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The Kiwi bach is a sinking ship and taxpayers should not pay to bail you out says the Morgan Foundation's Geoff Simmons
A new report from the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment (PCE) Jan Wright released today highlights the perilous status of our national institution – the seaside bach or crib.www.interest.co.nz/opinion/73139/kiwi-bach-sinking-ship-and-taxpayers-should-not-pay-bail-you-out-says-morgan-foundatioSome councils, such as Kapiti, have dared put their head above the seawall and tried to restrict development in areas that are prone to sea level rise.
They ended up being taken to court by the landowners whose property values were being put at risk.
Other councils are calling for more leadership from central government to help them do the right thing. But this particular potato is too hot for the government to touch, way too hot.
Unless they act now, many will end up paying dearly.
All we know is that it won’t be the insurance industry – they will be long gone by the time the risk is obvious to even the most obtuse.
They are already preparing their escape routes.
It will be left to banks, property owners, or more likely ratepayers and taxpayers, to argue how much if at all they will contribute to bailing people out of what is a completely predictable natural disaster.
Our advice to coastal property owners is to accept the inevitable and either write off an increasing proportion of your seaside treasure, or if you’re not prepared to do that, move out.Comment
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What an idiot.Comment
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He's right about this bit:
All we know is that it won’t be the insurance industry – they will be long gone by the time the risk is obvious to even the most obtuse.
They are already preparing their escape routes.Comment
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That's a given. Snigger.Comment
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Rising tide | Stuff.co.nz
www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/lifestyle-entertainment/weekend/8550917/Rising-tideSea level rise was behind a recent Environment Court decision barring development on Kina Peninsula - what is in store for the rest of the region? Naomi Arnold reports.
When the sea eats away the land and begins to trickle over borders, the almost universal human response is to fight, defend, and preserve. Not to retreat.
That curiously lyrical insight into human nature came from Tasman District Council coast and rivers resource scientist Eric Verstappen, who was a witness during last year's Environment Court hearing into a Carter Holt Harvey subdivision on the low-lying Kina Peninsula.Comment
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potentially more than a metre of sea level rise -- within this century could mean for Aucklanders, as well as all Kiwis.
"In my personal view, people who live on the coast are not aware -- but when their homes become uninsurable, they'll be very aware."
Climate change was also expected to result in more large storms compounding the effects of sea level rise.
The major coastal floods that Auckland experienced in 1936 and 2011 -- the latter flooding downtown shops, homes and roads -- would occur about once every decade, according to Niwa projections.
If climate change continued unabated, that frequency could increase to each year.
"Just think about what happened in April this year, where there was flooding on the northwestern motorway and Tamaki Drive.
That would become commonplace," Dr Salinger said.
another impact Dr Salinger will address, Auckland would feel the effect of climate change on Pacific nations, which he considered New Zealand's "front yard".
He said the risk of displacement and relocation from Pacific islands was a reality,
and building capacity for an influx of new residents in Auckland now should be a priority.
Auckland Pacific communities would also need to be strong to accommodate migrants and assist those remaining in the islands.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11368328Last edited by eri; 03-12-2014, 04:50 PM.have you defeated them?
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Not just a Kapiti issue of course, but just putting here as there was already a thread going.
Banks and Insurance companies will dictate the direction on this issue; of that I have no doubt.
Commissioner warns property owners that banks and insurers are focusing more on risks of rising sea levels; LIM warnings possible; Maps being drawn up
As both insurance companies and banks turn their attention to the potential for coastal flooding and erosion to carve chunks off property values, a report coming out later this year will for the first time detail the projected effect of rising sea levels along specific areas of the entire New Zealand coastline, revealed the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment.Wright was unapologetic, warning that coastal property owners needed to face up to the situation.
“There will be detrimental financial impacts, regardless,” she said. “People will find themselves unable to insure their properties and so, really, I think the idea is to protect as many people from that situation as possible.”
“This is not easy for anyone but sometimes we have to have these hard conversations and the insurance industry is right onto this.
They really are right onto this and they are not going to be soft about it.”
The banking industry is also starting to take an interest in the issue, with Wright saying she was “asked by the chief executive of the Bank of New Zealand to go and talk with him and I spent an hour with him.
He was very interested in both the water quality work and the sea level rise work.”Comment
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This one has been going for a long, long time. This is not about global warning - basically the coast up there has always advanced and retreated - and there is a 2000 year historical record of it http://www.kapiticoast.govt.nz/Docum...rn-Wgtn-NZ.pdf
I recall this debate back in the late 70's when I was a kid a relative retired to Kapiti- it was seen as a dodgy place with sea-front erosion by those living in Wellington. I do think some buyers have a huge head in the sand approach to this.Comment
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This is an old thread but the topic is well worth visiting again.
I bought a house 18 months ago in College Drive after shifting from Lower Hutt and even though my property wont be affected by a rise in sea level it would be interesting to know if anyone considered any impact on the "flood plan" as shown in the Kapiti Coast District Council "GIS" map?
You can see this map in the Council web site.
Do you Kapiti investors check this out when purchasing an IP?
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