Floating Lagoon

Kawatiri Coastal Trail - Carter's Beach Westport

The food protection scheme is divided into five main sections of stopbanks:

Lower Orowaiti, Upper Orowaiti, North End, Lower Buller (Wharf to Buller Bridge) and Upper Buller (SH67 from Buller Bridge to Nine Mile Road).

The Floating Lagoon stopbank is a smaller stopbank. It starts at Talley’s bund and meets North End stopbank.

Estimated construction dates Floating Lagoon: starting mid 2026

Four months construction time

(construction dates are subject to consenting)

Floating Lagoon area

The Floating Lagoon area abuts the North End stopbank.

Complete:

  • Final design and geotech investigations.

  • Removal of vegetation around the smaller existing stopbank.

  • Geotech investigations. Consultants Davis Ogilvie provided the final geotechnical design report. Design needed to allow for high groundwater levels.

  • The peer review of the detailed site investigation (DSI) and a leachate investigation are complete. The DSI report has some ramifications on mitigating the contamination from historic railway material. This area also requires an archaeological investigation.

  • Environmental investigations are complete.

    Current status:

  • Preliminary work is complete.

  • We expect to be able to put a Resource Consent application for this stopbank in late January 2026.

  • We expect the Consent to take about six weeks to process.

  • The stopbank will take four months to build.

Estimated construction dates: Starting Mid 2026 (subject to consenting)