Alpine Fault Risk Assessment
T Dobbie made this Official Information request to Christchurch City Council
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From: T Dobbie
Dear Christchurch City Council,
Please provide a copy of the Risk Assessment for the Alpine Fault and the likely impact it will have on our city.
Yours faithfully,
T Dobbie
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Christchurch City Council
Kia Ora,
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We are handling your request under the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987 (LGOIMA). We have forwarded it to the appropriate Christchurch City Council staff, and we will provide a response or update within 20 working days of the date we received your request. If we are unable to respond to your request by then, we will notify you of an extension of that timeframe.
If you have any queries, please feel free to contact me. If any additional factors come to light which are relevant to your request, please do not hesitate to contact me so that these can be taken into account.
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Sean Rainey
Manager Official Information
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Christchurch City Council
Dear Sir/Madam,
I refer to your request for:
Please provide a copy of the Risk Assessment for the Alpine Fault and the
likely impact it will have on our city.
Council Response
The Council does not hold a risk profile for the city and there is no
specific city risk assessment.
Therefore we have decided to refuse your request under the following
section of the LGOIMA - 17(g) – the information requested is not held by
the local authority.
Any questions regarding localised/regional defence issues (including the
Alpine Fault) can be directed to CDEM – via
[1]https://www.cdemcanterbury.govt.nz/cante...
You have the right to seek an investigation and review by the Ombudsman of
this decision. Information about how to make a complaint is available at
[2]www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or freephone 0800 802 602.
Kind regards,
Sean
Sean Rainey
Manager Official Information and Privacy Officer
Official Information Team
Office of the Mayor and Chief Executive
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T Dobbie left an annotation ()
CCC were able to fulfil my request.
This is surprising when you consider we are the South Island's major city. CCC have no Health and Safety Risk Assessment for the major risk event of the Alpine Faultline which is overdue to rupture in what is expected to be a major earthquake lasting over 4 minutes. It is predicted to be at least an 8 possibly a 9 magnitude quake. It will impact not only Christchurch City but the whole island dramatically.
From: T Dobbie
Dear Official Information,
I ask again for the Risk Assessment for the Alpine Faultline. At the long-term plan hearing I was assured that the CCC does have one.
Yours sincerely,
T Dobbie
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Christchurch City Council
Kia ora T Dobbie,
Thank you for your request for information. We are handling your request
under the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987
(LGOIMA).
We have forwarded it to the appropriate Christchurch City Council staff,
and we will provide a response or update within 20 working days of the
date we received your request. If we are unable to respond to your request
by then, we will notify you of an extension of that timeframe.
In order to make sure that we are following every lead, could you please
confirm which LTP hearing day this confirmation occurred, and which
elected member or staff member you were assured by about the assessments
existence? This may help us in our search, especially if it’s an external
assessment that’s come in to a part of council that we wouldn’t logically
think to check.
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Kind regards,
Jess Griffin
Information Coordinator
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Kia ora T,
On 23 May 2024, you requested the following information, under the Local
Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987 (LGOIMA):
I ask again for the Risk Assessment for the Alpine Faultline. At the
long-term plan hearing I was assured that the CCC does have one.
First, we would like to apologise for the confusion, it appears that there
was a miscommunication here as your original request was misunderstood as
a risk assessment created by Council.
Christchurch City Council, through the Civil Defence & Emergency
Management team, utilises the AF8 assessment and documentation. All of
which is publicly accessible online.
This was the primary reference material used to create the CCC Earthquake
Plan and includes external assessment of the potential risk.
1. AF8 Material
a. SAFER Framework (the main part of AF8)
[1]https://af8.org.nz/media/tmkaaiwe/af8-sa...
b. AF8 Risk Profiles. (attached)
2. Canterbury Group Plan (that Brenden mentioned):
[2]https://www.cdemcanterbury.govt.nz/media...
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Jess Griffin
Information Coordinator
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From: T Dobbie
Dear Official Information,
Thank you for that document. It is not a Risk Assessment for the Alpine Fault. The information within it is very limited around the risks of the Alpine Fault on Christchurch City.
The councillors at the LTP hearing assured me and the public that there is a Risk Assessment.
Please provide me a copy.
Yours sincerely,
T Dobbie
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Christchurch City Council
Kia ora Dobbie,
I've discussed with relevant staff, and looked through our systems and a
more specific risk assessment does not exist. The risk assessment that
they were referring to was the one sent through.
Thank you,
Jess Griffin
Information Coordinator
Official Information
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From: T Dobbie
Dear Official Information,
Thank you, I note that there were two versions of the AF8 report attached to the message. One dated August 2018 and another version June 2021.
The June 2021 does include risk information and is more of what I was after. I believe that CCC needs to have their own documentation to show that they actually do understand the threat that the Alpine Fault places on our city. In light of what we went through in 2010/2011 that seems logical to me.
Yours sincerely,
T Dobbie
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Andrew Mitchell left an annotation ()
Wow. So Christchurch City Council has no "risk assessment" for a city (and quite frankly the bulk of the S.I.) where it is currently expected that we will have an alpine fault event within only a few years.
Greymouth District Council seem decades ahead of these guys...
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