MEDIA RELEASE
Horizons Regional Council
Friday 3 October, 2014
Walkers to watch for Anzac Cliff work
Safety fencing is in place beside the Bridle Track at Albert Street, as the next stage in the proposed project to
realign the Manawatu River and stabilise Anzac Cliffs gets underway.
Horizons Regional Council project engineer Derek McKee says Horizons recently awarded a contract for the supply 43,000
tonne of rock.
“Trucks will be delivering rock to the site between 7am and 7pm Monday to Friday and 7.30am and 1.30 pm Saturday,” says
Mr McKee.
“We’d like to ask people to watch out for trucks as they walk between the Anzac Cliff and Albert Street area as we are
unable to fence off the shared pathway to the site. However, we have erected safety fencing around the construction site
and put up a considerable amount of signage to alert walkers of possible truck movements.”
Mr McKee says the gate at the end of Albert Street may be open at times to allow trucks site to come and go between
loads but access is for construction purposes only.
“We have also awarded a contract for the substantial channel realignment and rock placement work which is expected to
begin in approximately two weeks. Activity on site will then gradually build up to a high level by the end of
October/early November and will progress through until the end of May 2015,” says Mr McKee.
The substantial channel realignment and associated earthworks, which will reduce the slope of and stabilise the cliff
face, involves close collaboration between Horizons, Palmerston North City Council and the Higgins Group, who own land
at the top of the cliffs.
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