Why we have sectors
In an emergency situation, WCRG is an information tree. Wānaka is a big place, and information starts hyperlocal, someone on your street knows what's happening on your street before anyone else does.
That's what the sectors are for. Each one has a sector coordinator and radio sets who gather what's happening in their patch and radio it through to the Emergency Hub. From there it goes to the EOC, the Emergency Operations Centre, run by Otago CDEM (Civil Defence Emergency Management). They take the full picture from all nine sectors and use it to work out where the response is needed most.
It works the other way too. Confirmed information from official channels comes back down the same path, through the Hub and out to sector radio operators, so people in their own neighbourhoods get reliable updates rather than rumours.
Nine sectors cover Wānaka. Find yours on the map below.
The sector boundaries
SECTOR 1 North Beacon Point
Bounded to the north by the Lakeside to the south by Aubrey Rd to the west by the Lakeside and to the east by Peak View Ridge and Sticky Forest
SECTOR 2 North Lake, Hikuwai
Bounded to the north by the Clutha River to the west by Peak View Ridge and Sticky Forest to the south by Aubrey Rd and to the east by the Gunn Rd roundabout
SECTOR 3 South Beacon Point
Bounded to the north by Aubrey Rd to the east by Anderson Rd to the west by the Lakeside and to the south by SH84/Ardmore St
SECTOR 4 Mt Iron
Bounded to the north by Aubrey Rd to the west by Anderson Rd to the east by western Mt Iron (Hidden Hills) and to the south by SH84
SECTOR 5 Albert Town
Bounded to the north by Aubrey Rd from Kanuka Rise and Rock Haven to the Gunn Rd roundabout and then north to the Clutha River to the west by the top Mt Iron to the east by the Clutha River and to the south by the Cardrona River and SH6 (between Riverbank Rd and Halliday Rd)
SECTOR 6 Central One
Bounded to the north/west by Ardmore St to the south by McDougall St and to the east by Golf Course Rd and MacPherson St
SECTOR 7 Wanaka Rural
Bounded to the north by SH84 to the east by Riverbank Rd/the Cardrona River to the west by Golf Course Rd/ MacPherson St and to the south by Cardrona Valley Rd
SECTOR 8 Meadowstone
Bounded to the north by McDougall St to the west by Ardmore St/Mt Aspiring Rd to the east by Cardrona Valley Rd and to the south by Studholme Rd South
SECTOR 9 Studholme
Bounded to the east by Studholme Rd East to the north by the Lakefront to the west by Ruby Island Rd and to the south by Hill End