Coastal assets assessed

It will cost nearly $30 million over the next three years to remove or improve coastal assets managed by Auckland Council’s community facilities department.

This includes boat ramps, jetties, piles, pontoons, retaining walls, seawalls, stairs and wharves. Projects on the current programme include Rainbows End jetty ($182,409), Scotts Landing seawall ($1.1 million) and the Willjames Ave seawall at Algies Bay ($363,000).

Both the Point Wells seawall renewal (just over $1 million), which was set down to happen in the 2023/24 financial year, and an investigation and renewal programme for coastal assets in the Whangateau Harbour/Omaha Estuary ($2.56 million), have been put on hold.

Projects being assessed but not yet costed include the Point Wells jetty, Point Wells boat ramp and Whangateau boat ramp. The programme does not include coastal assets managed by Auckland Transport.