Press Release – Hastings District Council Technology check: Hastings mayor Sandra Hazlehurst and Councillor Bayden Barber, accompanied by ria Barber (5), check out the Waimarama treatment facility, guided by Hastings District Council drinking water operator Jason Collins. …
Technology check: Hastings mayor Sandra Hazlehurst and Councillor Bayden Barber, accompanied by Āria Barber (5), check out the Waimarama treatment facility, guided by Hastings District Council drinking water operator Jason Collins.
A new drinking water treatment and storage facility in Waimarama was blessed on Wednesday, before water flowed through it and on into the pipe network to residents’ homes.
It was the third of eight new small community drinking water facilities to be completed, after plants in Te Pohue and Haumoana/Te Awanga were opened earlier this year.
Saturday, 1 May 2021, 12:55 pm
Technology
check: Hastings mayor Sandra Hazlehurst and Councillor
Bayden Barber, accompanied by Āria Barber (5), check
out the Waimarama treatment facility, guided
by Hastings District Council drinking water operator
Jason Collins.
A new drinking water
treatment and storage facility in Waimarama was blessed on
Wednesday, before water flowed through it and on into the
pipe network to residents’ homes.
It was the third
of eight new small community drinking water facilities to be
completed, after plants in Te Pohue and Haumoana/Te Awanga
were opened earlier this year.
The new facility is
part of the Hastings Drinking Water Strategy, which will
Friday, 9 April 2021, 9:06 am
Hastings District Council has agreed to raise the funds
needed to complete the final stages of the Hastings Drinking
Water Strategy – the construction of treatment facilities
at the Frimley and Eastbourne sites and associated pipe
works.
Providing safe drinking water and increasing
the capacity and resilience of the network remains
Council’s number one priority; as set out in its 2018
Drinking Water Strategy. The major water storage and
treatment facilities at Frimley and Eastbourne (the latter
subject to receiving Resource Consent) are the last major
components of the strategy.
At a meeting yesterday
[April 8], Hastings District councillors unanimously agreed