Background Information

This page contains reports on coastal erosion that you may find useful.  All reports are in PDF format and available for download or print from the links below.

Kāpiti Coast District Council

• Kāpiti Coast Erosion Hazard Assessment Report 2008
  Part 1: Open Coast (80 pages, 2Mb)
  Part 2: Inlets (68 pages, 3Mb)
  Part 3: Data-Base (166 pages, 491Kb)
• LIM Coastal Erosion content (5 pages, 72Kb)
• Letter: Data and Computations for 2012 Erosion Hazard Update Assessment (2 pages, 23Kb)
• Coastal Hazards on the Kapiti Coast (22 pages, 191Kb)
  This powerpoint presentation is from the Districtwide Coastal Hazard Open Sessions held in September 2012.
• Coastal Hazard Provisions (79 pages, 401Kb)

GNS Science Report

• Vertical land movement around the New Zealand coastline: implications for sea-level rise (50 pages, 2 Mb)
  This is a new report on vertical land movements around the coasts which have implications for sea level rise.

Hawkes Bay Regional Council

• Coastal Hazard Zones - Valuation Report 2008 (59 pages, 5Mb)

NIWA Reports

• Sea-level rise - How are we tracking in Wellington region and how will it affect coastal flooding? (30 pages, 4Mb)
• Wellington Region Storm Tide Modelling (9 pages, 900Kb)    

There is a report from NIWA on future coastal flooding caused by sea level rise which focuses specifically on the Wellington region.  A second NIWA report on the effects of storm tides on our coasts is in draft form at the moment and will be posted here as soon as it is finalised.  Powerpoint presentations in relation to both the NIWA reports can be viewed above.