Future vulnerability considered as flood repair progresses

Vulnerability to flooding is among the factors Auckland Council will take into account when making future decisions about which assets, parks and facilities damaged as a result of severe weather will be repaired or renewed.

At a council Planning, Environment and Parks committee meeting last month, customer and community services director Claudia Wyss indicated that due to budget constraints, future flooding risks might impact decisions on whether or not to repair damaged sites.

Wyss said council might have to make “some trade-offs, where we see that some of those assets may not make...