KAIPARA LIFESTYLER September 5 - 2017
Making headway with roads Funding for aerial mapping
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by Anna Harding
by Joanna Manson
The Kaipara District Council has started rehabilitation work on the unsealed section of Pouto road, currently up to the Ari Ari road intersection, around 11km from Pouto point.
Government funding of up to $800,000 for 3-D aerial mapping of Northland is set to provide the region with geographical data to make better business decisions.
From left: Tim Ward and Aidan Ford, Broadspectrum; Mike Batchelor, Whangarei District Council; Will Pile, Far North District Council and Bernard Petersen, Henri van Zyl, Jim Hale, Karen Ruskin from Kaipara District Council
The technology ‘LiDAR’ is a remote sensing tool which uses laser pulses to generate large amounts of highly accurate geographical terrain data. Economic Development Minister Simon Bridges said the mapping will be the most comprehensive LIDAR exercise ever undertaken in New Zealand. “It will produce data that is ten times more accurate than what is currently used, and can have a wide range of uses from forest inventory, floodplain mapping, urban planning and coastal engineering to its use for the design of power lines, roads, railways, mines, farms and land developments. “The project will be part of Northland’s joint Economic Action Plan with the government supporting economic growth to the area.” Primar y Industries Minister, Nathan Guy said the data will provide authorities with more confidence to progress infrastructure projects and deliver better, more cost-effective planning and a better understanding and ability to plan for sustainable land management. Funding for the Northland LiDAR project comes from the government’s Regional Growth Programme, co-led by
The works form part of the council’s heavy metalling programme for 2017/18. This includes renewing the road layers, including top surface metal and wearing coarse aggregate lost through years of active use. Roading and solid waste manager Henri Van Zyl, said that “we are doing regular work on this road. We spent $155,700 last year and are going to spend $750,000 on the unsealed section this year as well. On the sealed section, we are going to do pre-reseal
repairs to the surface to the value of $505,900 with the reseal works to follow that.” Council says the work was important due to the large number of forestry operations that use it, and road testing which highlighted sections of weak road over and above visual failures. Associated improvement works will follow later this year By the end of this month council aims to have results and information from other roading test sites that have been carried out over the last year.
Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy
the Ministry for Primary Industries and the Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment. Land Information New Zealand has also contributed funds. The government’s funding has been collectively matched by the four Northland councils. A Cessna twin engine aeroplane, modified for LiDAR surveying, will be used as it can be flown safely at low altitudes over urban areas within the coming months and be completed in 2018.
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