Photo: WELLINGTON WATER / SUPPLIED
Continued erosion at a closely-watched cliff means it is now almost touching a main sewer pipe on the Hutt River, forcing authorities into action.
After 15 years monitoring the cliff as it got worse, a $2m project has now begun to protect the pipe that carries all of Upper Hutt's sewage south.
"We've reached a threshold where we've said we don't want it to come any closer to the pipe now," Wellington Water chief operating officer Charles Barker said.
The cliff had eroded to within about two metres of the pipe and just a few metres from the edge of State Highway Two at the popular Taita Rock swimming
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