Steph Jewell: Ngātīmoti resident on the slash and landslides impacting the Tasman region

Huge landslides in Tasman have caused widespread destruction in the past week's damaging storms. 

The area's State of Emergency continues - but recovery efforts are in full swing after flooding, slips and power outages.

More than 800 properties are being assessed for damage in Tasman and Nelson.

The town of Ngātīmoti was badly hit.

Local Steph Jewell says logjams that meant homes flooded - are being cleared.

"Further up the little stream that I live up - it's all happening. As soon as I wake, it's the sound of machinery."

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Tasman District flooding and now slash massive landslides causing widespread destruction.
You would have seen the images on your TV, on
your phones, tons of logs creating a dam and flooding
people's homes. This is particularly bad in Nazi Motti A resident.
There's stiff Jewelers with me now, Hi Steff, Hi Man, Hello, Hello,
good to have you on the phone. Tell me what's

(00:21):
it been like this time.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
I haven't been here all day. For the afternoon, I've
been helping dig mud out of my neighbour's garage. And
I know that not far away there are people with
large and small machines digging mud from other people's gardens
and livelihoods, and we're all just doing what we fail.

(00:48):
And on the medium scale, the local pine industry, which
I think as Tasman pine, has been clearing some of
those log jams sort of further up the little streams
that I live up. And so it's all happening. As
soon as I wake, it's the sound of machinery.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
And this is not the first time you had the
same problem with Geta.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
Oh yes, and before that in the early nineties, might
have been nineteen ninety with cyclone Bolla. The area, the
Moderaiker Valley is famous for its particular kind of loose
granite called separation point granite. Problem here is that it
should never have a monocrop of pine plantation on the

(01:31):
steeper slopes. We're not against the pine plantation, but it
shouldn't be on those steeper slopes.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
Have you spoken You said that there was one of
the pine companies there today help and clean up. Do
you speak to them about it? What do they say now?

Speaker 2 (01:46):
I haven't spoken to them about it. You know, they're
very helpful around here. They've been up the top of
Greenhole Road before because it keeps on coming down when
we get a big rain. I mean, it's not it's
a very multifaceted problem. The pine forest is one part
of the problem, and the huge rains which are increasing

(02:08):
with global warming are another part of the problem.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
Steve, how do people feel in Nati Molti today? Todd Well,
I think very.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
Glad to have had a sunny day, exhausted from the
massive effort of helping each other that everybody is making.
You know that all the people who are around here,
everyone's been helping each other. And this is the lovely
time we get to know each other in politics don't matter.
The color of your stripe is irrelevant at this time.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
Step appreciate you coming on the program in explaining that
to us, keep up the hard work. Steff Jewel is
a resident of Nati Mooti, which has been hit by
slash again.

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