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Now Playing: Ten years since 100 year flood in Queenstown (1:50)
Source: ONE News
Monday marked the day 10 years ago that Queenstown endured the worst flood in its history.
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Now Playing: Flashback: Cleaning up for Christmas (1:02)
Source: ONE News
Now flood waters from Lake Wakatipu have retreated, the race is on in Queenstown to get businesses cleaned up and refitted before Christmas, the clean-up is providing work for unemployed.
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Now Playing: Flashback: Health issues come with clean up (1:26)
Source: ONE News
The flooded business area of Queenstown is slowly drying out with Lake Wakatipu lake level dropping, business owners met with insurance assessors and council officials and were reassured that officials will help, the flood water is now presenting a public health problem.
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Now Playing: Flashback: Salvage begins after floods (2:14)
Source: ONE News
Queenstown people are now trying to salvage their flooded businesses, a potential slip above Frankton Hill is of concern to authorities, with six houses under the hill having been evacuated, a much needed food convoy was escorted through the Kawarau Gorge and now traffic is being allowed through the gorge in two hourly groups.
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Now Playing: Flashback: Slip victims allowed back ()
Source: ONE News
Owners of the condemned houses under the Frankton Hill slip, near Queenstown, were briefly allowed home to collect as many possessions as they could, the slip is still on the move and flood waters are still lapping at the door of many houses.
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Now Playing: Flashback: The lake comes to town (1:36)
Source: ONE News
High rainfall in the west and at the head of Lake Wakatipu have Queenstown locals sandbagging in preparation for Lake Wakatipu flooding, parts of Wanaka are already under flood waters, it's now a case of waiting overnight.
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