8 Dec 2022

Two weeks until State Highway 6 reopens between Nelson and Blenheim

From Morning Report, 8:22 am on 8 December 2022

With less than two weeks until State Highway 6 between Nelson and Blenheim is due to reopen, contractors are working long hours to complete repairs on the flood-damaged road.. 

The repair bill is estimated to be more than fifteen million dollars and there are upwards of a hundred contractors on the job, twenty-four hours a day.

Samantha Gee went out to see some of the biggest slip sites.