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Civil Defence Hutt City updated 11:00 am Fri 21 Feb
There are no alerts for Lower Hutt
Hutt City Council Alerts updated 11:00 am Fri 21 Feb
GIS and Mapping systems outage Our GIS and Mapping Services will be undergoing routine maintenance on Saturday 22 February 2025 from 9:00am - 3:00pm. Read more

Toxic Algae Warning Amber alerts are in place for parts of the Hutt River. Read more
Eastbourne callouts updated 11:05 am Fri 21 Feb
Tue 18 Feb 8:24pm - Days Bay, - (responded) Eastbourne, Seaview (for) Structure fire
Seaview recent callouts updated 11:07 am Fri 21 Feb
Fri 21 Feb 6:50am - Hutt Central, - (responded) Seaview, Avalon (for) Fire alarm
Thu 20 Feb 11:28pm - Moera, - (responded) Seaview (for) Minor
Thu 20 Feb 12:38pm - Waiwhetu, - (responded) Seaview (for) Minor
Thu 20 Feb 10:03am - Gracefield, - (responded) Seaview, Avalon (for) Structure fire
Thu 20 Feb 9:46am - Wainuiomata, - (responded) Wainuiomata, Seaview (for) Minor
Geonet: recent earthquakes near Eastbourne updated 11:06 am Fri 21 Feb
2.5 - (weak) 83.6 km South West of Eastbourne at 10:34 am Fri 21 Feb (preliminary)
1.6 - (unnoticeable) 3.2 km South West of Eastbourne at 9:42 pm Thu 20 Feb (confirmed)
East Harbour Parks Status updated 10:10 am Fri 21 Feb
EXTREME Fire Risk - Baring Head/Orua-pouanui and Parangarahu LakesAlerts, Notices and restrictions can be found here

Community Emergency Hubs are pre-identified places for the community to coordinate our efforts to help each other during and after a disaster. They are opened by people like you in your community, not official staff, when there is need for the community to help itself.

Eastern Bays have 3 officially designated community hubs:

Sea level rise

Eastbourne is a coastal community, our single road access at sea-level makes us vulnerable to storm events and also sea level rise in the future.

Find out more about sea level rise https://www.searise.nz/

Eastern Bays Climate Change Response Network has been recently initiated to coordinate a local response to the issues of climate change, particularly in our case, sea level rise. There are videos and reports of meetings here and updates will be added.

Earthquakes

Being close to the Alpine Fault line and the Hikorangi Fault Eastern bays are also vulnerable to both earthquakes and tsunami hazards. This animated report (https://faultlines.nz/)  gives a very good overview of the Alpine Fault and how it may affect us.