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STUFF Rivers bursting their banks, flash floods and more intense cyclones. How climate change is making floods more extreme. “So that’s as far up the road as we got ... and that alone is going to be quite a major fix,” Murrin said. A crew would need to cut a ramp into the side of the hole to get a digger in, to build a retaining wall for the hillside road. “It’s going to take some time. There will only be room for one digger, but there will be a lot of earth moving for that one dig...

Jennifer Eder16:50, Jul 19 2021 MDC A high country community isolated by landslides after severe rain are facing a mammoth cleanup. A series of slips along Awatere Valley Rd in south Marlborough have cut off access to several farms in the high country valley. The top end at Molesworth Station is closed for the winter. Mount Gladstone farmer Hayley Pitts is stuck on one of those farms, about 50 kilometres southwest of Seddon, where the severe rain at the weekend has flooded her merino and catt...