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PAGE 4 BAY HARBOUR Latest Christchurch news at www. .kiwi<br />
Wednesday <strong>May</strong> <strong>10</strong> <strong>2017</strong><br />
News<br />
Disaster response<br />
group planned<br />
•From page 1<br />
“There was very little in the way<br />
of planning and organisation, if it<br />
had been better planned we could<br />
have had more people in houses<br />
than halfway up hills in their<br />
cars,” Mr Sayer said.<br />
The group has identified an<br />
urgent need for tsunami evacuation<br />
planning with a focus on<br />
community education.<br />
Redcliffs Residents Association<br />
secretary Pat McIntosh said<br />
creating the group and a plan was<br />
important for the area.<br />
“Of course the recent tsunami<br />
and evacuation is fresh in everyone’s<br />
minds and this area is<br />
vulnerable so there is a pressing<br />
need to improve the plans for<br />
such an event and ensure that the<br />
whole community understands<br />
what to do in the event of another<br />
warning and need to evacuate the<br />
coastal area,” Dr McIntosh said.<br />
The group is working with Civil<br />
Defence and Emergency Management<br />
to work out evacuation routes<br />
for people in Redcliffs to use in the<br />
case of an emergency, whether it be<br />
a fire, flood, tsunami, earthquake<br />
or other disasters.<br />
• Anyone who would like<br />
to get involved in the<br />
emergency response group<br />
should email redcliffs.<br />
ra@gmail.com for more<br />
information.<br />
Ripapa Island building to be dismantled<br />
• By Bridget Rutherford<br />
RIPAPA ISLAND’S damaged<br />
Fort Jervois workshop building<br />
will be “sensitively” dismantled<br />
next week – but it is not known<br />
when the island will reopen to<br />
the public.<br />
The corrugated iron and<br />
timber building was deemed<br />
irreparable by engineers and historians.<br />
Its walls were blown out<br />
during a storm in 2014 following<br />
Cyclone Ita.<br />
Department of Conservation<br />
Christchurch operations<br />
manager Andy Thompson said<br />
eight people would go over late<br />
next week to do the work, which<br />
would take about two days.<br />
He said they would remove<br />
the cladding from the outside<br />
of the building and it would be<br />
winched over.<br />
The rotten timber will be burnt<br />
on the island, while recyclable<br />
material would be helicoptered<br />
away, he said.<br />
Ripapa Island is a former pa<br />
site and was later used as a quarantine<br />
station, prison and coastal<br />
defence centre. It has been closed<br />
to the public since the September<br />
20<strong>10</strong> earthquake.<br />
Mr Thompson said originally<br />
it was hoped once the workshop<br />
was removed, the island could be<br />
reopened.<br />
But two months ago it was<br />
discovered the island’s wharf<br />
was badly earthquake-damaged,<br />
he said.<br />
It was not yet known whether<br />
it could be repaired, but Mr<br />
Thompson said it would be<br />
costly.<br />
He said the other buildings<br />
also needed restoration, but it<br />
was unknown when that could<br />
happen because DoC needed to<br />
fund it.<br />
“It’s not a $<strong>10</strong>,000 project, it’s<br />
closer to a $1 million project,” he<br />
said.<br />
“We’re always looking for<br />
opportunities and we’re open to<br />
ideas and suggestions and open<br />
to working with others.”<br />
PROGRESS: The workshop building on Ripapa Island will be<br />
dismantled next week after it was deemed irreparable.<br />
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