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Tom Rutherford: Bay of Plenty MP on fresh slips at Mount Maunganui landslide site · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: To Mount Longanui right now and the Manga there mile
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  Speaker 1: more landslides reactivated over the course of the weekend. What
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  Speaker 1: we can see is very wet, it's liquefied and obviously
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  Speaker 1: it's not finish. That's taken down, some debris, some trees.
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  Speaker 1: There's some boulders up there that are in quite precarious positions. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the alert level has been raised, a key road has
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  Speaker 1: been closed, and questions are now being asked about when
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  Speaker 1: or in fact actually if the mount will ever fully
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  Speaker 1: reopen to the public. We're joined now by the Bay
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  Speaker 1: of Plenty MP Tom Rutherfan Hill, Tom, Good morning, Andrew
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  Speaker 1: Gussing for everybody.
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  Speaker 2: That was a shock, Yeah, really really really sad for
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  Speaker 2: our local community here in Mountmnganuly and the wider Bay
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  Speaker 2: of Plenty. Mount Monganuy is a massive stalwart in part
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  Speaker 2: of our community, and seeing the reactivation of the main
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  Speaker 2: landslide that sadly killed six people on the twenty second
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  Speaker 2: of January is really gussing for us. But I'm pleased
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  Speaker 2: with the response the council gave over the weekend. Are
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  Speaker 2: going to be doing some assessments and inspections and we're
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  Speaker 2: going to continue to press on to reopen the mount
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  Speaker 2: safely in the future.
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  Speaker 1: This is a big slip. It wasn't wildly wet, but
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  Speaker 1: it was still a big slip, at least as big
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  Speaker 1: as the initial slip. So does this prove that the
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  Speaker 1: mountain will possibly never be safe to reopen.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, the regression extends approximately twenty meters and they had
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  Speaker 2: a runout of approximately one hundred meters. It doesn't quite
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  Speaker 2: go as far as the original runout. But as you
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  Speaker 2: played in your story before, the material is mobile land fluid.
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  Speaker 2: There is always a risk that Mountmonganui may not have
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  Speaker 2: the same stability that potentially it had previously prior to
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  Speaker 2: the landslides on the twenty second of January. But I
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  Speaker 2: trust the experts that are doing the phenomenal work on
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  Speaker 2: there at the moment, who've been working on the summit
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  Speaker 2: track and working on other parts of Mountmongeru as well,
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  Speaker 2: forget it safely re opened in the future.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so this happened again at the holiday park. The
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  Speaker 1: good news, if there is any good news, is that
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  Speaker 1: the rest of the path that goes all the way
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  Speaker 1: around the mountain stayed pretty stable. Is this possible to
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  Speaker 1: have that open? But the holiday park possibly is a
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  Speaker 1: rite off.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a number of hypotheticals that play. The council
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  Speaker 2: of working through those at the moment. But the track
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  Speaker 2: that they have managed to restore that goes to the
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  Speaker 2: summit ipat that wasn't impacted by these events. You're right,
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  Speaker 2: it is very targeted to that one slip area that
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  Speaker 2: was the one main landslide area that was part of
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  Speaker 2: the holiday campground. So yeah, there are options for what
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  Speaker 2: the future may look like and I'm sure the Council
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  Speaker 2: will be considering those.
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  Speaker 1: And the big impact on business, of course, is actually
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  Speaker 1: in the mount itself, where we've got that little entertainment
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  Speaker 1: and hospital area where there are so many cafes and
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  Speaker 1: so many businesses and so many people employed there, and
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  Speaker 1: they are really hurting. What's their prospects.
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  Speaker 2: It's been a really challenging six months for the local
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  Speaker 2: businesses at the base of Mount Monganuy and the surrounding areas.
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  Speaker 2: If I could send a clear message to anybody listening today,
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  Speaker 2: I want to tell them Mount Monganuy it South the
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  Speaker 2: mountain may be closed, but the Mount Monganuy area and
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  Speaker 2: main street and shops are well and truly opened, and
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  Speaker 2: we would love people to come down to our community,
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  Speaker 2: support our local economy. These businesses are doing it really tough.
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  Speaker 2: Any support people can give to our local cafes, restaurants
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  Speaker 2: or local businesses in the area, We really do appreciate
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  Speaker 2: any support for them. They founding it really challenging. Winter
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  Speaker 2: is generally a quiet season for them anyway, let alone
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  Speaker 2: with the mountain being closed. So we are really working
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  Speaker 2: together as a community to try and get through this
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  Speaker 2: and to try and see the other side.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Tom, thank you so much for your time.
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  Speaker 1: Pass on our regards to those business owners who are
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  Speaker 1: suffering that as Tom Rutherford, who is the Bay of
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  Speaker 1: plenty MP for more.
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