Our last update provided details of the report that had been received on the waterfront, with a breakdown of the stages for works. With the water from on the town hall roof already remediated, the next step was a recommendation for urgent works to be carried out by the cannon and Butterfish.

This resulted in a request by Far North Holdings on behalf of FNDC, for contractors to fix the waterfront in those two locations. The request had two parts:

• 1a) to repair the damage by the cannon and Butterfish and
• 1b) a beach push up of soft material.

This first part of the request asked for proposals to repair the damage to the waterfront around the cannon and in front of Butterfish. Those proposals were reviewed by engineers, fully considered and a contract has now been let to do the work.

In the next 4 weeks we will see activity on the foreshore bank and the beach immediately beside the bank as the infill repair is done and the soft beach material beside the bank is pushed up and spread along the bank edge to provide protection of the tree root and the remediation work done. We hope this will be completed by Labour weekend, but it is weather dependent.

The second part, which is a beach push up of soft material, requires a resource consent from NRC which will take a little longer to get organised, but it is intended that late Oct or early Nov this work will be commissioned and take place after the repairs have been completed.

At this stage we finally hope that this will all be in place and completed for the 2025-26 summer season.