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The West Coast Regional Council has applied to itself for resource consent for first phase works of a Government-funded $12.3 million project along the Waiho (Waiau) River to protect Franz Josef Glacier township.
A landowner whose family farmed near Franz Josef for decades says it is not the best idea to let the river have its way on the south bank, as the government and councils are now proposing.