O Mahurangi

31 October 2024

Community drop-in sessions

We look forward to seeing you at one of our community drop-in sessions. We will have a number of members of our team present, including engineers, and will be happy to answer any questions you may have.

We will also be joined by representatives from Auckland Transport at the Whangaparāoa session who will be happy to answer any questions you may have about the future of Auckland Transport’s services in the area.

We want to hear from you by Friday 1 November

The O Mahurangi Alliance stakeholder and engagement team is currently conducting a stakeholder satisfaction survey that closes Friday 1 November. This survey provides you with an opportunity to provide feedback on your experience with our communication and engagement approach and activities. The insights we gather through the survey will help to refine our approach and address any concerns or suggestions you may have around how we engage and communicate.

Take the survey here.

Read more on our communications strategy here.

In addition to providing feedback through the survey, we welcome ongoing feedback on our communication strategy at any time. You can reach us via our project email at omahurangi@nzta.govt.nz or by calling 0800 7365 465.

Wēiti River Bridge

Check out a recent photo of Stillwater with the Wēiti River Bridge temporary staging (a platform built to help us build the bridge) in the background. The photo is overlaid with an artist’s impression of the future bridge.

The artist’s impression is for illustrative purposes only. It may not be complete or fully accurate and should not be used for technical purposes.

Temporary Wēiti River channel closure

From 2 to 8 December, our team will be temporarily closing the Wēiti River channel for one week. This short closure is to enable the commencement of works to construct Pier 4.

During the closure, a variety of equipment will be delivered including the much safer transfer of a large drilling rig to the eastern working platform

While in place, the channel closure does not affect vessels navigating the river downstream of the worksite and once the work is complete, we will reopen to the current set up with an approximate 18-metre wide navigable gap for vessels to pass through.

There will continue to be times, for short periods of the day during our normal working hours, where loads will be lifted over the gap and vessels will be unable to pass. Our normal hours of work are Monday to Friday 7am to 6pm and Saturday 8am to 4pm.

There is also another closure planned for January 2025.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused and thank all river users and neighbours for their patience during the ongoing construction of the new Wēiti River Bridge. Should you have any questions in regard to these closures, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

Please note: This map is indicative only and is not to be used for navigational purposes.

Our site teams are in full swing with some great progress underway

Environmental team members Bridget, Petra, Richie, and Hannah at the IECA conference.

O Mahurangi environmental team receive IECA Merit Award

Members of our O Mahurangi Alliance environmental team attended the annual International Erosion Control Association (IECA) conference recently. The team had entered the project into the annual Environmental Excellence Awards and out of numerous entries from both Australia and New Zealand, we were one of the top 3 finalists. While we didn’t win, the team was awarded ‘Merit’ and received a trophy engraved with a photo of our site on it.

O Mahurangi Alliance Environmental Manager Bridget Robinson says, “it is great recognition of all the hard work and the collaboration the project has done to achieve our great outcomes”.