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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announces a $2.5 billion water reform funding package at the Local Government Conference in Blenheim on July 15, 2021. If the water reforms happen, responsibility for maintaining water infrastructure – and the chlorine exemption – will change hands on July 1, 2024. “What we want to know is . can [the council] then require that new entity to maintain that exemption,” Dalziel told
Stuff this week.
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Christchurch s water was chlorinated in March 2018. Although the levels of chlorine have reduced across the city, the majority of residents still have some chlorine in their drinking water. (File photo)
STUFF At a meeting on Friday, the board voted 3-1 to keep the name. Two of the board members, city councillors Mike Davidson and Pauline Cotter, were absent. Board chair Emma Norrish said her reasoning for keeping the name was “quite simple really”, saying the name of the lane was not the same as the disgraced liquor baron.
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Earthworks at 480 Hills Rd – a property linked to businessman Harjit Singh. “The name of the lane is, to the general public, not associated with him unless people delve into the history,” she said. Norrish worried about the precedent the board could set if it revoked the name.