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This website is dedicated to the recovery of St Albans and its city, Christchurch following a devastating series of earthquakes in 2010 and 2011. This service by the St Albans Residents’ Association (SARA) offers relevant local information. If you are from an organisation or a business and have essential information you would like to share with the community, then please get in touch by email to sara@stalbans.gen.nz and we will endeavour to publish it here.Translations
Category Archives: Earthquake Information
The Recovery Strategy
Kia ora It is with great pleasure that I inform you that the Recovery Strategy for greater Christchurch – Mahere Haumanutanga o Waitaha developed under the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Act 2011 is now available to view on the CERA website … Continue reading
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Temporary Accommodation Assistance
– The following are the official responses CanCERN had with regard to TAA eligibility. Eligibility if you have moved to temporary accommodation outside Canterbury?
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Quake Stories
QuakeStories is a place where you can tell your stories about the earthquakes of September 2010 and February 2011 and their aftershocks. Whatever your age, whether you’re an individual, part of a community, a business or an organisation, you have … Continue reading
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UC Public Earthquake Lecture Series
If you missed the 2011 Earthquake Lecture series, you can view the lectures http://www.communityed.canterbury.ac.nz/earthquake_lectures.php
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TC3 Information Booklet
Kia ora This week CERA sent properties in TC3 areas an information booklet. The booklet has been prepared by CERA and other agencies working on Canterbury earthquake recovery to better inform residential property owners about the technical categories and what … Continue reading
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EQC information
EQC is nearly finished with assessing claims and is spending a lot of time now looking forward to preparing Fletchers for 2012. They have recently focused attention of the Fletchers EQR Hubs making sure the right people are in the … Continue reading
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More TC3 foundation information
Evan Smith and Mike Coleman got the following responses to questions from AMI and Arrow International who believe the responses are universal across all insurers. TC3 Foundation spec’s are likely to add $100M to AMI’s total liability (tens of thousands more … Continue reading
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Blue Zone Blues
Blue zone blues #1 Being zoned green is not the end of uncertainty, especially when large chunks of my electorate are now coded blue, meaning the most expensive foundation work is now required to meet the new building code. We … Continue reading
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How do the new DBH technical categories for the Green Zone affect my EQC claim?
For homeowners whose property is in the green zone and in Technical Categories 1 or 2 (TC1 or TC2) with foundations that require repairing or rebuilding, a range of standard options are available for the repair and rebuilding of foundations. … Continue reading
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Residental Green Zone technical category information from CERA
Land in the green zone has been divided into three technical categories. These categories describe how the land in expected to perform in future earthquakes. The technical categories – TC1 (grey), TC2 (yellow) and TC3 (blue) describe the foundation systems … Continue reading
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New foundation design categories for Canterbury
http://www.landcheck.org.nz/ http://cera.govt.nz/land-information/maps Gerry Brownlee, Maurice Williamson 28 October, 2011 New foundation design categories for Canterbury Three new categories for residential foundation design have been developed and will be required for repairing and rebuilding homes in Canterbury following the earthquakes of … Continue reading
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St Albans Update
from BRENDON BURNS: Around 50 residents from St Albans turned out on Saturday morning at Abberley Park to air their feelings of being forgotten in the process of recovering from the earthquakes. Most of St Albans is green zoned but … Continue reading
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