Some slips from summer’s bad weather will take months to clear, says a senior Auckland Council engineer.
Ross Roberts, Auckland Council engineering resilience head, said it was difficult to give a timeframe for some particularly complex slips affecting roads in Rodney.
Movement from slips at Muriwai has slowed down significantly, but Roberts said clumps of 1-2 cubic metres were still falling off the crests.
Roberts estimated there were between 3000 and 10,000 slips across Auckland but it would be 12 months before an accurate number was known.
GNS Science, which has a programme to map landslides across New Zealand, is working through a manual process and a few different options to do the count, he said.