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Completion of a slipway for easy kayak access to the Puhoi River will be delayed until at least next year, unless locals can find the funds.
The slipway is the final part of the Puhoi Wharf project, which started seven years ago.
Puhoi resident Larry Mitchell says the community put a huge effort in to raise $160,000 for what has been completed to date.
“We aren’t a big community so that was a lot of money for us to raise and we hoped that Auckland Council would contribute the final funds to complete the slipway,” Larry says.
“The river is used by hundreds of kayakers during the year and the slipway would mean you don’t have to get knee deep in mud to launch.”
However, Rodney Local Board member Tessa Berger says this year’s funding round has closed and, without a submission, no money will be allocated to the slipway project. “This year’s spending will be allocated in the next month in line with public submissions,” Ms Berger says.
