1 Sep 2022

Expensive clean-up bill for Marlborough after devastating floods

From Checkpoint, 5:37 pm on 1 September 2022

It will be an expensive clean-up bill in Marlborough - after the region took a hammering of rain two weeks ago.

The scale of the recovery is still being established - paddocks are flooded, there are slips on roads and communities are still cut off.

The government's pledged more money to help affected communities today.. but some say a return to normal life is some way away.

Our reporter Samantha Gee joined the Prime Minister on a fly-over of the worst affected areas.