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Tītahi Bay Residents' Association spokeswoman Michelle Laurenson has likened the region’s pipe situation to the leaky homes crisis and said there should be a similar financial assistance package to deal with this saga.
Tītahi Bay households could be the first in the region stung with bills potentially reaching into the tens of thousands of dollars as Wellington Water investigates the pipe network, Porirua’s mayor says.
Anita Baker said the suburb’s homeowners will be expected to foot the cost of repairs if broken pipes or cross connections were identified on their properties, in the first of a series of checks on infrastructure linking private homes into Wellington Water’s network.