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Cherie Sivignon15:22, May 04 2021 Martin De Ruyter/Stuff The Lee Valley construction site of the Waimea Community Dam, photographed in early April. The council has been accused of going “through the back door” with a proposal to target rate Waimea Irrigators Ltd-affiliated landowners to recover a slice of the Waimea dam project overrun costs. In one of more than 1700 submissions to the council’s draft Long Term Plan 2021-31, Waimea Irrigators Ltd (WIL) points out that the Tasman District Council agreed to a clause in the project deed that any overrun costs would be shared 50/50 between the council and WIL for the first $3m, “and those in excess of $3m are to be funded by TDC”. ....