Injury Claims Relating to Auckland Flood Events - Auckland Anniversary flooding event. Focused on areas such as Henderson, Wairau Road, Kumeu, Whangapouri (Karaka), Te Auaunga (Mt Roskill). They need to have recorded a connection to this flooding event when filling out their ACC forms. These could both be minor or serious injuries- whether or not warranting medical treatment. Data which can be organised by age group will be helpful too.
Understanding the scale and short-long term impacts of the flooding on the health system and the Auckland population generally.
Understanding the scale and short-long term impacts of the flooding on the health system and the Auckland population generally.
Kia ora, Please find attached our response to your official information request dated 24 October 2024. If you have any questions about the response you can contact us at this address, for all other matters please use our contact form at: https://www.acc.co.nz/contact/ alternatively give us a call on 0800 101 996. If you are having trouble viewing the PDF, please ensure you have the latest version of Adobe Acrobat Reader. To download this freeware please click here. Ngā mihi Christopher Johnston (he/him) Manager | OIA Services
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ACC Government Engagement (Accident Compensation Corporation)
16 September 2025
Info@data.govt.nz
Kia ora
Your Official Information Act request, reference: GOV-036175.
Thank you for your request on the data request website on 24 October 2024, asking for the following information under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act):
"Injury Claims Relating to Auckland Flood Events - Auckland Anniversary flooding event. Focused on areas such as Henderson, Wairau Road, Kumeu, Whangapouri (Karaka), Te Auaunga (Mt Roskill). They need to have recorded a connection to this flooding event when filling out their ACC forms. These could both be minor or serious injuries- whether or not warranting medical treatment. Data which can be organised by age group will be helpful too."
It has come to our attention that we attempted to respond to this request on 14 November 2024. However, the information we sent may not have been uploaded correctly to data.govt.nz.
Information about injury claims caused by floods in early 2023 can be found at this link: https://catalogue.data.govt.nz/dataset/gov-036175-acc-injury-claims-relating-to-auckland-flood-events
The information provided includes injury claims that are related to floods in the upper North Island from late January to early February 2023. Please refer to the notes in the attachment for details about the data used for this request.
As this information may be of interest to other members of the public ACC may publish a copy of this response on ACC’s website. All requester data, including your name and contact details, will be removed prior to release. The released response will be made available www.acc.co.nz/resources/#/category/12. Please also view this page about making requests and our published responses https://www.acc.co.nz/contact/official-information-act-requests.
If you have any questions about this response, please get in touch You can email me at GovernmentServices@acc.co.nz.
Ngā mihi
Christopher Johnston Manager Official Information Act Services Government Engagement