Mountain Scene
By TRACEY ROXBURGH
Users of the Queenstown Rec Ground are fuming after construction of a wastewater pumping station’s altered the ground level, turning the western end of the pitch into a paddling pool this week.
That end of the field’s been tied up by a lengthy capital works project HEB Construction
started work on the new wastewater pumping station last March; by December it was expected to be up to $2.5 million over budget.
Part of the field was out of action all last season and as soon as it was returned to the Wakatipu Rugby Club at the beginning of this year, club stalwart Damien O’Connell says he knew the paddock ‘‘wasn’t up to it’’.