Tuesday, 3 August 2021, 11:31 am
The Otago Regional Council (ORC) will be drilling at up
to nine sites in South Dunedin and coastal parts of the
central city, following up on 27 monitoring bores installed
in 2019.
ORC will be installing groundwater monitoring
equipment and extracting geological cores samples to gather
new insights into what lies beneath residential South
Dunedin and reclaimed coastal parts of the city.
The
nine new monitoring bores will bring the total number of
bores in ORC’s Dunedin well network to 36 sites, up from
four in 2018.
Natural Hazards Analyst Sharon Hornblow
said the existing bores had provided useful data on the