Tuesday, 25 May 2021, 12:01 pm
GNS Science has conducted a geotechnical study on the
Rauoterangi Fault in Feilding in the hope to carbon date the
fault line and analyse the risk it poses.
The study
has been fully funded by the Earthquake Commission Kōmihana
Rūwhenua (EQC), with Manawatū District Council covering
some remedial costs. A trench was dug in an area of Rimu
Park that has been identified as having surface deformation
caused by the fault line.
“Fault trenching provides
another means of ground-truthing the work we do. We expect
to see some evidence of past fault movements on the trench