SCHOOL CLOSURES

The following schools and early learning centres will be closed tomorrow (Monday):

Tapawera Area School

Riwaka School

Brooklyn School

Tapawera Kindergarten

Please check in with your own school on their Facebook page or via emails to see if they are impacted. School buses may also be impacted by road closures and conditions.

ROADS

State Highway 6 has reopened between Belgrove and Kohatu, enabling Wakefield to Murchison and St Arnaud.

This means direct access between Nelson and Murchison/West Coast has been restored.

Drivers can expect road work sites, areas reduced to a single lane, and stop-go traffic management along this route. Please allow extra travel time.

Drivers can expect weather damage on all state highways across the top of the South and must drive to the conditions. The potential for slips, rock and tree falls remains, and drivers are urged to check road conditions before they travel as routes can close at short notice.

Please only travel if essential – the roads are still dangerous, and crews are working. Please only drive if you have absolutely no other alternatives.

MOTUEKA

Motueka Top 10 Holiday Park are offering showers to the public, between the hours of 9am – 4pm. Please come to reception first and bring your own towel and toiletries.

Motueka Rec Center are also offering showers on Monday 9am – 8.30pm. Please bring your own towel and toiletries.

There will be a water tanker at the Motueka Recreation Centre 8-12pm Monday, BYO vessels.

The Motueka Recreation Centre, 40 Old Wharf Road will be open Monday-Wednesday 10am-3pm. With agencies on-site to have a chat about any specific welfare needs.

WATER

We’ve had some questions from residents on private bores, specifically asking for more information on use of water under a boil water notice.

It's important that when you are boiling water for use in your home, you need to ensure that you have a rolling boil for at least 2 minutes. That will offer some assurance that you're getting rid of any potential contamination.

Treat all water and rivers as if they are still contaminated – they may include wastewater overflows or other contaminants.

OFFERS OF HELP

Are you needing help cleaning up or want to help others with food or clothing donations? The Student Volunteer Army are available to help or would love your help, please visit https://www.sva.org.nz/nelsontasman25 and fill out the form.

We have been receiving offers of help from people with machinery, diggers and trucks. The local council concerned will deal with any main works through established contractors, and if you are wanting to help on private properties then that needs to happen with the individual homeowner.

SILT CONTROL

We realise that silt is a real problem and not necessarily easy to deal with. We are asking people not to dispose of silt until we have a silt management plan in place and create special drop-off sites. Planning is underway for this, but as you can understand, the logistics of an operation like this take time.

Our advice at this stage is to please leave silt on site, where it safe and practical to do so. If you have cleaned up silt and dumped it, please let us know where it’s been dumped.

The problem is that some of the silt contains the highly invasive and nasty Asiatic Knotweed, and we need to ensure that it isn’t spread further around Tasman in dumped silt.

POWER

Great progress continues to be made with restoring power to impacted properties. There are under 200 homes still without power tonight.

ST ARNAUD CONVOYS - CANCELLED

Now that SH6 has opened the convoys have been cancelled as travellers can take SH63 to SH6 and up SH6. Kerr Hill will remain closed at this stage.

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