Government approves $850k to re-survey Canterbury land

This is from a ministerial press release. It appears that getting this sorted is a prerequisite to being able to re-lay pipes, fix roads.

Land Information Minister Maurice Williamson has announced an $850,000 Government approved fund for Land Information New Zealand's re-establishment of critical surveying information in Canterbury following the 4 September earthquake.

Mr Williamson says Canterbury's landscape has changed significantly since the earthquake.
"Re-establishing control of the geodetic network is vital to ensuring that councils and infrastructure providers have accurate information about the land and can get on with rebuilding and re-instating services like roads, water, waste-water and sewerage systems quickly," Mr Williamson says.
Work is expected to be completed by the end of February.

The funding will also support the restoration of coordinate markers vital to hazard monitoring, mapping property boundaries, and re-building infrastructure like telecommunications cables and water reticulation systems.