Preferred option for Hāwea Wastewater Management

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Consultation has concluded

Feedback on a preferred option for treating and disposing of wastewater from Hāwea has is now closed. Updates on the project can be found at https://www.qldc.govt.nz/your-council/major-projects/upper-clutha-wastewater-conveyance-scheme/.


Background

The existing Hāwea Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) was built in 1988 and subsequently upgraded in 2000. Fast forward over 20 years and the Hāwea WWTP cannot satisfactorily meet current and growing demand. As a result we are consistently failing to meet discharge consent conditions.

We're planning an interim upgrade to the existing wastewater treatment plant to alleviate immediate operational issues. We've also now landed on a preferred long-term option that can respond to and futureproof Hāwea’s wastewater needs.


The preferred option

The preferred option is to pump wastewater to the Project Pure wastewater treatment plant for treatment and disposal. A new pipeline would be installed between Hāwea and Albert Town, where it would connect into Wānaka’s wastewater scheme. Upgrades to the infrastructure from Albert Town onwards would also be completed to cater for the increased volume.

This has been selected as the preferred option because it provides the best balance of environmental, social, cost and resilience benefits. Of the options considered, it is likely to be the fastest solution to implement, and can be constructed within the 'design life' of the interim solution.


preferred long term Hawea wastewater pipe alignment


We are currently developing the concept design of the preferred option to provide increased certainty of its feasibility and downstream network impacts.

The concept design phase will include assessment and design of the general pipe alignment, the Hāwea and Clutha River crossings, and upgrades required to Wānaka's wastewater network.

Your feedback on the preferred option is important. It will:

  • Allow the project team to tailor the the proposed options in line with the wants and needs of the community
  • Ensure elected members have a broad understanding of how the community feels when making a final decision to invest in this option.


Frequently asked questions

We've provided answers to a number of frequently asked questions - take a look at the right hand side of this page. There is also a Q&A section below populated with questions we've received from the community.

Feedback on a preferred option for treating and disposing of wastewater from Hāwea has is now closed. Updates on the project can be found at https://www.qldc.govt.nz/your-council/major-projects/upper-clutha-wastewater-conveyance-scheme/.


Background

The existing Hāwea Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) was built in 1988 and subsequently upgraded in 2000. Fast forward over 20 years and the Hāwea WWTP cannot satisfactorily meet current and growing demand. As a result we are consistently failing to meet discharge consent conditions.

We're planning an interim upgrade to the existing wastewater treatment plant to alleviate immediate operational issues. We've also now landed on a preferred long-term option that can respond to and futureproof Hāwea’s wastewater needs.


The preferred option

The preferred option is to pump wastewater to the Project Pure wastewater treatment plant for treatment and disposal. A new pipeline would be installed between Hāwea and Albert Town, where it would connect into Wānaka’s wastewater scheme. Upgrades to the infrastructure from Albert Town onwards would also be completed to cater for the increased volume.

This has been selected as the preferred option because it provides the best balance of environmental, social, cost and resilience benefits. Of the options considered, it is likely to be the fastest solution to implement, and can be constructed within the 'design life' of the interim solution.


preferred long term Hawea wastewater pipe alignment


We are currently developing the concept design of the preferred option to provide increased certainty of its feasibility and downstream network impacts.

The concept design phase will include assessment and design of the general pipe alignment, the Hāwea and Clutha River crossings, and upgrades required to Wānaka's wastewater network.

Your feedback on the preferred option is important. It will:

  • Allow the project team to tailor the the proposed options in line with the wants and needs of the community
  • Ensure elected members have a broad understanding of how the community feels when making a final decision to invest in this option.


Frequently asked questions

We've provided answers to a number of frequently asked questions - take a look at the right hand side of this page. There is also a Q&A section below populated with questions we've received from the community.

Consultation has concluded

Ask us a question and we'll provide an answer as soon as possible.   

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    It is too early to say exactly how this project will impact ratepayers and development contributions. Once we have validated our preferred option (due diligence is in process now), we will complete a detailed financial analysis. Generally speaking, connecting Hāwea to the Wanaka wastewater scheme will enable us to spread the cost of service across a much larger ratepayer base.

  • Share Lake Hawea Wastewater Issue Preferred Option Feedback Not Questions ... Predictions and Suggestions. Rik Deaton 1. MY PREDICTIONS ABOUT FUTURE DEVELOPMENT IN OUR REGION. 1. We ain’t seen nuthin’ yet! The construction and development industry is a voracious beast that needs constant feeding and it is just getting started in this oh so attractive and desirable place in which to live. The whole world now wants to escape to New Zealand as societies are visibly coming apart at the seams around the globe. What this area will mostly get is a new moneyed elite whose wealth will continue to drive up property values which will in turn drive up Property Value Based Taxation to the point that many existing residents will be driven from their homes. 1. Tarras Airport and Silverlight Studios Theme Park? My call is they were a done deal between government and the big end of town a year before we ever heard about them and they are the start of the complete infill of all the river valleys between Wanaka, Hawea and Cromwell ... Auckland South by 2035. 2. Property Value Based Taxation is a fully regressive class of taxation that attempts to gain legitimacy from the fatuous assumption that one’s income (that from which one must pay taxation) magically remains commensurate with the value of one’s home. In an area such as this, a region that is almost infinitely desirable and very limited in supply, the end result is relentless financial pressure to subdivide and develop and, almost certainly, there is bugger all we can do to stop it. 3. Can you imagine what it feels like to have the taxation that pertains to your home go from a few thousand dollars a year (like it is here now) to almost a quarter of a million dollars a decade later? I don’t have to imagine it ... it happened to us in Australia and the end result was our complete financial destruction in the GFC of 2008 courtesy of Property Value Based Taxation. 4. Property value is a false marker of an individual’s ability to pay tax over a given taxation period but governments use it anyway and try to convince us it is valid. Bureaucracy simply knows no bounds and they are coming for your home with this mad form of taxation right now - “of course we can do it to you - “see, it says so right there in Volume 15, Section 12b, Subparagraph 6.3.8-A2. 5. Don’t ever imagine they won’t, I promise you they will. Whatever you think is about to happen here development wise - increase it by an order of magnitude and stand by for rates increases that will cripple you and new forms of this class of taxation you won’t believe any sane government could even consider. Not the fault of local government. They don’t write up the tax code, they just live with the nonsense as we all do. 6. If local “environmental” groups want to be more effective, try attacking the cause of population density increase instead of the symptoms ... Property Value Based Taxation. 2. SEISMIC RESILIENCY: BRIDGE FAILURE = LOSS OF SEWER SYSTEM: 1. Council is proposing to clip the new sewer pipe to the side of the two existing road bridges along the route: The bridge over the Hawea River at Camp Hill Road and the Page 1 of 3 bridge across the Clutha at Albert Town. My understanding is that it is almost a certainty that these bridges, along with the Red Bridge and Hawea Dam, will be wreckage in the river below where they presently stand post the AF8 Seismic Event we are warned by emergency services to expect “Next Sunday Morning”. 1. Instead of clipping the brand new sewer pipe to two seventy year old to bridges almost certain to fail in a seismic event that is also a certainty ... use the pipe as structure, or clip it to the structure of new cycle trail system suspension bridges at these locations that are A) built to withstand AF8 and B) wide enough (i.e. 2.5 -3m) to allow the passage of two way cycle traffic and one way passage of the new generation of narrow track electric vehicles such as the Archimoto “First Responder” and the Canadian made “Lyte Horse”. 1. Do this and you introduce dramatic seismic resiliency to townships that will otherwise be entirely cut off from each other and from the desperately needed help from civil emergency response teams post AF8. 2. You also make sure that the pristine waters of the Hawea and Clutha rivers are not polluted from source to sea by the effluent draining from the certain to be ruptured sewer pipe that was ripped from the side of two ancient and certain to fail road bridges. 3. CYCLE TRAIL / COMMUTER TRANSPORT POTENTIAL 1. This new suspension bridge at Albert Town can also perhaps be the critically important link for Wanaka to connect to the soon to be completed great rides integrated network ... probably in the wrong place to also solve the “Outlet Trail Issue” but you can’t solve them all I guess. Or can you? Over to you Tracks Trust and Bike Wanaka! 2. If you proceed with this option (and clearly this is all just going through the motions and you will proceed) you are about to dig up the vast majority of the entire road reserve alongside the major transport corridors between Lake Hawea, Hawea Flats and Albert Town/Wanaka. This means major earthworks along the entire route that will begin at Butterfield Road (Hawea Flat for all intents and purposes) and run all the way to Albert Town. 1. This means that this same road reserve, post installation of services, will be reformed into some landscaped and shaped condition - might that reforming be carried out such that it serves a purpose other than merely landscaping and water runoff control? 1. Will our council exhibit the same mind numbing incompetence that is now on permanent display along Riverbank Road and at the new subdivision approaching the problem intersection at Vet Corner and waste all that machine time and diesel fuel recreating the same functionless contours as previously existed ... or will QLDC use that same machine time and diesel to form that same roadside verge into a wide, medium speed roadside cycle and e-mobility commuter trail all the way from Hawea Flats and Lake Hawea to Wanaka. 2. Given all the hand wringing and virtue signalling this Council engages in about how worried it is about traffic increase and how much it cares about Active Transport, it is inconceivable it would not take this golden opportunity to add such a cycle trail given that the only incremental cost would be the gravel surface and three years of Resource Consent consultancy to give itself permission. Mind you, it didn't occur to them along Riverbank Road or at Vet Corner ... but I’ll be here to give them a nudge this time. 1. It should be self evident that such a cycle and low speed e-mobility corridor would take much of the (certain to increase) pressure from the scenic riverside and lakefront trails by providing a more direct commuter/shopping route and thereby leave those wonderful scenic assets to the recreation and tourism which they are best suited. 2. Also, of course, such a roadside cycle trail would pass by the entrances to the ever subdividing and infilling areas along the entire route such that all those Page 2 of 3 residents, ever increasing in number, could opt for another form of transport as technology shift makes that choice ever more viable. 4. ABILITY TO LINK INTO THE SEWER LINE ALONG THE WAY 1. I trust that it will be possible for all residences along the route, extant and soon to be subdivided and built, to link into the sewer line at any point in the usual manner so they can stop using septic tanks. Anything else is unthinkable. 2. Again from our Australian experience. As the population and housing density increased along the northern Beaches of Sydney (the home they stole from us was at Palm Beach for those familiar), the output of partially treated effluent from septic tanks in the unsewered area became so odious that new builds were required to install holding tanks and have them pumped out to a tanker truck on a regular basis. Can you imagine the cost of that today? Eventually the area had sewer lines installed into the difficult topography at great cost. 1. It would be madness not to plan for and to provide access to this line all along the route from the outset. 5. WATER MAIN IS ALSO A MUST 1. As the infill I predict in Point 1 above takes place, the potential for contamination of ground water increases as well, especially from existing and new septic tanks. Currently all residences along the entire route of the proposed pipeline get their household water from ground water. 2. In addition, might this groundwater resource be diminished by continued exploitation as has been the case at Hawea in recent years, or interrupted entirely by either climate change or a major seismic event? The answer is obviously yes to all these questions. 3. Then there is the Three Waters insanity imposed, as ever, by overreaching bureaucracy. In our case, we are now legally liable for the quality of water being taken without our consent from a spring on our property and piped under our fields to an unknown number of our neighbours on the other side of Camp Hill Road and used, so we understand anecdotally, for their household water supply. A water main fixes such problems so that neighbours need not become enemies at the behest of idiot bureaucratic edict. 4. Fire hydrants all along the way - our incredible local volunteer firefighters would be very much in favour and might begin to think we actually appreciate their efforts! 1. It is therefore unthinkable that this project would not also include installation of a water main to service all residences along the route. 6. UNDER-GROUNDING OF POWER LINES. 1. Given that the landscape values of this entire area are presently under scrutiny (Landscape Schedule Review) and we are told that the landscape has limited capacity to have all sorts of “activities” present on the privately owned land in question - how about we put some of the none too pretty power lines that run on public land underground at the same time? 1. Or are giant steel power poles and lines visually acceptable to the delicate sensibilities of the proponents of this particular piece of bureaucratic madness (Landscape Schedule Review) and is it the case that they are only offended by what happens on private land ... Silverlight Studios excepted of course? 7. HIGH SPEED FIBRE IN SAME TRENCH. 1. No brainer. 8. WOULD MY SUGGESTIONS BENEFIT OUR BUSINESS “LANDESCAPE WANAKA” IF ADOPTED? 1. Most definitely - but nowhere near as much as they would benefit the rest of the community. Rik Deaton - Wednesday, 20 July 2022 Page 3 of 3 on Facebook Share Lake Hawea Wastewater Issue Preferred Option Feedback Not Questions ... Predictions and Suggestions. Rik Deaton 1. MY PREDICTIONS ABOUT FUTURE DEVELOPMENT IN OUR REGION. 1. We ain’t seen nuthin’ yet! The construction and development industry is a voracious beast that needs constant feeding and it is just getting started in this oh so attractive and desirable place in which to live. The whole world now wants to escape to New Zealand as societies are visibly coming apart at the seams around the globe. What this area will mostly get is a new moneyed elite whose wealth will continue to drive up property values which will in turn drive up Property Value Based Taxation to the point that many existing residents will be driven from their homes. 1. Tarras Airport and Silverlight Studios Theme Park? My call is they were a done deal between government and the big end of town a year before we ever heard about them and they are the start of the complete infill of all the river valleys between Wanaka, Hawea and Cromwell ... Auckland South by 2035. 2. Property Value Based Taxation is a fully regressive class of taxation that attempts to gain legitimacy from the fatuous assumption that one’s income (that from which one must pay taxation) magically remains commensurate with the value of one’s home. In an area such as this, a region that is almost infinitely desirable and very limited in supply, the end result is relentless financial pressure to subdivide and develop and, almost certainly, there is bugger all we can do to stop it. 3. Can you imagine what it feels like to have the taxation that pertains to your home go from a few thousand dollars a year (like it is here now) to almost a quarter of a million dollars a decade later? I don’t have to imagine it ... it happened to us in Australia and the end result was our complete financial destruction in the GFC of 2008 courtesy of Property Value Based Taxation. 4. Property value is a false marker of an individual’s ability to pay tax over a given taxation period but governments use it anyway and try to convince us it is valid. Bureaucracy simply knows no bounds and they are coming for your home with this mad form of taxation right now - “of course we can do it to you - “see, it says so right there in Volume 15, Section 12b, Subparagraph 6.3.8-A2. 5. Don’t ever imagine they won’t, I promise you they will. Whatever you think is about to happen here development wise - increase it by an order of magnitude and stand by for rates increases that will cripple you and new forms of this class of taxation you won’t believe any sane government could even consider. Not the fault of local government. They don’t write up the tax code, they just live with the nonsense as we all do. 6. If local “environmental” groups want to be more effective, try attacking the cause of population density increase instead of the symptoms ... Property Value Based Taxation. 2. SEISMIC RESILIENCY: BRIDGE FAILURE = LOSS OF SEWER SYSTEM: 1. Council is proposing to clip the new sewer pipe to the side of the two existing road bridges along the route: The bridge over the Hawea River at Camp Hill Road and the Page 1 of 3 bridge across the Clutha at Albert Town. My understanding is that it is almost a certainty that these bridges, along with the Red Bridge and Hawea Dam, will be wreckage in the river below where they presently stand post the AF8 Seismic Event we are warned by emergency services to expect “Next Sunday Morning”. 1. Instead of clipping the brand new sewer pipe to two seventy year old to bridges almost certain to fail in a seismic event that is also a certainty ... use the pipe as structure, or clip it to the structure of new cycle trail system suspension bridges at these locations that are A) built to withstand AF8 and B) wide enough (i.e. 2.5 -3m) to allow the passage of two way cycle traffic and one way passage of the new generation of narrow track electric vehicles such as the Archimoto “First Responder” and the Canadian made “Lyte Horse”. 1. Do this and you introduce dramatic seismic resiliency to townships that will otherwise be entirely cut off from each other and from the desperately needed help from civil emergency response teams post AF8. 2. You also make sure that the pristine waters of the Hawea and Clutha rivers are not polluted from source to sea by the effluent draining from the certain to be ruptured sewer pipe that was ripped from the side of two ancient and certain to fail road bridges. 3. CYCLE TRAIL / COMMUTER TRANSPORT POTENTIAL 1. This new suspension bridge at Albert Town can also perhaps be the critically important link for Wanaka to connect to the soon to be completed great rides integrated network ... probably in the wrong place to also solve the “Outlet Trail Issue” but you can’t solve them all I guess. Or can you? Over to you Tracks Trust and Bike Wanaka! 2. If you proceed with this option (and clearly this is all just going through the motions and you will proceed) you are about to dig up the vast majority of the entire road reserve alongside the major transport corridors between Lake Hawea, Hawea Flats and Albert Town/Wanaka. This means major earthworks along the entire route that will begin at Butterfield Road (Hawea Flat for all intents and purposes) and run all the way to Albert Town. 1. This means that this same road reserve, post installation of services, will be reformed into some landscaped and shaped condition - might that reforming be carried out such that it serves a purpose other than merely landscaping and water runoff control? 1. Will our council exhibit the same mind numbing incompetence that is now on permanent display along Riverbank Road and at the new subdivision approaching the problem intersection at Vet Corner and waste all that machine time and diesel fuel recreating the same functionless contours as previously existed ... or will QLDC use that same machine time and diesel to form that same roadside verge into a wide, medium speed roadside cycle and e-mobility commuter trail all the way from Hawea Flats and Lake Hawea to Wanaka. 2. Given all the hand wringing and virtue signalling this Council engages in about how worried it is about traffic increase and how much it cares about Active Transport, it is inconceivable it would not take this golden opportunity to add such a cycle trail given that the only incremental cost would be the gravel surface and three years of Resource Consent consultancy to give itself permission. Mind you, it didn't occur to them along Riverbank Road or at Vet Corner ... but I’ll be here to give them a nudge this time. 1. It should be self evident that such a cycle and low speed e-mobility corridor would take much of the (certain to increase) pressure from the scenic riverside and lakefront trails by providing a more direct commuter/shopping route and thereby leave those wonderful scenic assets to the recreation and tourism which they are best suited. 2. Also, of course, such a roadside cycle trail would pass by the entrances to the ever subdividing and infilling areas along the entire route such that all those Page 2 of 3 residents, ever increasing in number, could opt for another form of transport as technology shift makes that choice ever more viable. 4. ABILITY TO LINK INTO THE SEWER LINE ALONG THE WAY 1. I trust that it will be possible for all residences along the route, extant and soon to be subdivided and built, to link into the sewer line at any point in the usual manner so they can stop using septic tanks. Anything else is unthinkable. 2. Again from our Australian experience. As the population and housing density increased along the northern Beaches of Sydney (the home they stole from us was at Palm Beach for those familiar), the output of partially treated effluent from septic tanks in the unsewered area became so odious that new builds were required to install holding tanks and have them pumped out to a tanker truck on a regular basis. Can you imagine the cost of that today? Eventually the area had sewer lines installed into the difficult topography at great cost. 1. It would be madness not to plan for and to provide access to this line all along the route from the outset. 5. WATER MAIN IS ALSO A MUST 1. As the infill I predict in Point 1 above takes place, the potential for contamination of ground water increases as well, especially from existing and new septic tanks. Currently all residences along the entire route of the proposed pipeline get their household water from ground water. 2. In addition, might this groundwater resource be diminished by continued exploitation as has been the case at Hawea in recent years, or interrupted entirely by either climate change or a major seismic event? The answer is obviously yes to all these questions. 3. Then there is the Three Waters insanity imposed, as ever, by overreaching bureaucracy. In our case, we are now legally liable for the quality of water being taken without our consent from a spring on our property and piped under our fields to an unknown number of our neighbours on the other side of Camp Hill Road and used, so we understand anecdotally, for their household water supply. A water main fixes such problems so that neighbours need not become enemies at the behest of idiot bureaucratic edict. 4. Fire hydrants all along the way - our incredible local volunteer firefighters would be very much in favour and might begin to think we actually appreciate their efforts! 1. It is therefore unthinkable that this project would not also include installation of a water main to service all residences along the route. 6. UNDER-GROUNDING OF POWER LINES. 1. Given that the landscape values of this entire area are presently under scrutiny (Landscape Schedule Review) and we are told that the landscape has limited capacity to have all sorts of “activities” present on the privately owned land in question - how about we put some of the none too pretty power lines that run on public land underground at the same time? 1. Or are giant steel power poles and lines visually acceptable to the delicate sensibilities of the proponents of this particular piece of bureaucratic madness (Landscape Schedule Review) and is it the case that they are only offended by what happens on private land ... Silverlight Studios excepted of course? 7. HIGH SPEED FIBRE IN SAME TRENCH. 1. No brainer. 8. WOULD MY SUGGESTIONS BENEFIT OUR BUSINESS “LANDESCAPE WANAKA” IF ADOPTED? 1. Most definitely - but nowhere near as much as they would benefit the rest of the community. Rik Deaton - Wednesday, 20 July 2022 Page 3 of 3 on Twitter Share Lake Hawea Wastewater Issue Preferred Option Feedback Not Questions ... Predictions and Suggestions. Rik Deaton 1. MY PREDICTIONS ABOUT FUTURE DEVELOPMENT IN OUR REGION. 1. We ain’t seen nuthin’ yet! The construction and development industry is a voracious beast that needs constant feeding and it is just getting started in this oh so attractive and desirable place in which to live. The whole world now wants to escape to New Zealand as societies are visibly coming apart at the seams around the globe. What this area will mostly get is a new moneyed elite whose wealth will continue to drive up property values which will in turn drive up Property Value Based Taxation to the point that many existing residents will be driven from their homes. 1. Tarras Airport and Silverlight Studios Theme Park? My call is they were a done deal between government and the big end of town a year before we ever heard about them and they are the start of the complete infill of all the river valleys between Wanaka, Hawea and Cromwell ... Auckland South by 2035. 2. Property Value Based Taxation is a fully regressive class of taxation that attempts to gain legitimacy from the fatuous assumption that one’s income (that from which one must pay taxation) magically remains commensurate with the value of one’s home. In an area such as this, a region that is almost infinitely desirable and very limited in supply, the end result is relentless financial pressure to subdivide and develop and, almost certainly, there is bugger all we can do to stop it. 3. Can you imagine what it feels like to have the taxation that pertains to your home go from a few thousand dollars a year (like it is here now) to almost a quarter of a million dollars a decade later? I don’t have to imagine it ... it happened to us in Australia and the end result was our complete financial destruction in the GFC of 2008 courtesy of Property Value Based Taxation. 4. Property value is a false marker of an individual’s ability to pay tax over a given taxation period but governments use it anyway and try to convince us it is valid. Bureaucracy simply knows no bounds and they are coming for your home with this mad form of taxation right now - “of course we can do it to you - “see, it says so right there in Volume 15, Section 12b, Subparagraph 6.3.8-A2. 5. Don’t ever imagine they won’t, I promise you they will. Whatever you think is about to happen here development wise - increase it by an order of magnitude and stand by for rates increases that will cripple you and new forms of this class of taxation you won’t believe any sane government could even consider. Not the fault of local government. They don’t write up the tax code, they just live with the nonsense as we all do. 6. If local “environmental” groups want to be more effective, try attacking the cause of population density increase instead of the symptoms ... Property Value Based Taxation. 2. SEISMIC RESILIENCY: BRIDGE FAILURE = LOSS OF SEWER SYSTEM: 1. Council is proposing to clip the new sewer pipe to the side of the two existing road bridges along the route: The bridge over the Hawea River at Camp Hill Road and the Page 1 of 3 bridge across the Clutha at Albert Town. My understanding is that it is almost a certainty that these bridges, along with the Red Bridge and Hawea Dam, will be wreckage in the river below where they presently stand post the AF8 Seismic Event we are warned by emergency services to expect “Next Sunday Morning”. 1. Instead of clipping the brand new sewer pipe to two seventy year old to bridges almost certain to fail in a seismic event that is also a certainty ... use the pipe as structure, or clip it to the structure of new cycle trail system suspension bridges at these locations that are A) built to withstand AF8 and B) wide enough (i.e. 2.5 -3m) to allow the passage of two way cycle traffic and one way passage of the new generation of narrow track electric vehicles such as the Archimoto “First Responder” and the Canadian made “Lyte Horse”. 1. Do this and you introduce dramatic seismic resiliency to townships that will otherwise be entirely cut off from each other and from the desperately needed help from civil emergency response teams post AF8. 2. You also make sure that the pristine waters of the Hawea and Clutha rivers are not polluted from source to sea by the effluent draining from the certain to be ruptured sewer pipe that was ripped from the side of two ancient and certain to fail road bridges. 3. CYCLE TRAIL / COMMUTER TRANSPORT POTENTIAL 1. This new suspension bridge at Albert Town can also perhaps be the critically important link for Wanaka to connect to the soon to be completed great rides integrated network ... probably in the wrong place to also solve the “Outlet Trail Issue” but you can’t solve them all I guess. Or can you? Over to you Tracks Trust and Bike Wanaka! 2. If you proceed with this option (and clearly this is all just going through the motions and you will proceed) you are about to dig up the vast majority of the entire road reserve alongside the major transport corridors between Lake Hawea, Hawea Flats and Albert Town/Wanaka. This means major earthworks along the entire route that will begin at Butterfield Road (Hawea Flat for all intents and purposes) and run all the way to Albert Town. 1. This means that this same road reserve, post installation of services, will be reformed into some landscaped and shaped condition - might that reforming be carried out such that it serves a purpose other than merely landscaping and water runoff control? 1. Will our council exhibit the same mind numbing incompetence that is now on permanent display along Riverbank Road and at the new subdivision approaching the problem intersection at Vet Corner and waste all that machine time and diesel fuel recreating the same functionless contours as previously existed ... or will QLDC use that same machine time and diesel to form that same roadside verge into a wide, medium speed roadside cycle and e-mobility commuter trail all the way from Hawea Flats and Lake Hawea to Wanaka. 2. Given all the hand wringing and virtue signalling this Council engages in about how worried it is about traffic increase and how much it cares about Active Transport, it is inconceivable it would not take this golden opportunity to add such a cycle trail given that the only incremental cost would be the gravel surface and three years of Resource Consent consultancy to give itself permission. Mind you, it didn't occur to them along Riverbank Road or at Vet Corner ... but I’ll be here to give them a nudge this time. 1. It should be self evident that such a cycle and low speed e-mobility corridor would take much of the (certain to increase) pressure from the scenic riverside and lakefront trails by providing a more direct commuter/shopping route and thereby leave those wonderful scenic assets to the recreation and tourism which they are best suited. 2. Also, of course, such a roadside cycle trail would pass by the entrances to the ever subdividing and infilling areas along the entire route such that all those Page 2 of 3 residents, ever increasing in number, could opt for another form of transport as technology shift makes that choice ever more viable. 4. ABILITY TO LINK INTO THE SEWER LINE ALONG THE WAY 1. I trust that it will be possible for all residences along the route, extant and soon to be subdivided and built, to link into the sewer line at any point in the usual manner so they can stop using septic tanks. Anything else is unthinkable. 2. Again from our Australian experience. As the population and housing density increased along the northern Beaches of Sydney (the home they stole from us was at Palm Beach for those familiar), the output of partially treated effluent from septic tanks in the unsewered area became so odious that new builds were required to install holding tanks and have them pumped out to a tanker truck on a regular basis. Can you imagine the cost of that today? Eventually the area had sewer lines installed into the difficult topography at great cost. 1. It would be madness not to plan for and to provide access to this line all along the route from the outset. 5. WATER MAIN IS ALSO A MUST 1. As the infill I predict in Point 1 above takes place, the potential for contamination of ground water increases as well, especially from existing and new septic tanks. Currently all residences along the entire route of the proposed pipeline get their household water from ground water. 2. In addition, might this groundwater resource be diminished by continued exploitation as has been the case at Hawea in recent years, or interrupted entirely by either climate change or a major seismic event? The answer is obviously yes to all these questions. 3. Then there is the Three Waters insanity imposed, as ever, by overreaching bureaucracy. In our case, we are now legally liable for the quality of water being taken without our consent from a spring on our property and piped under our fields to an unknown number of our neighbours on the other side of Camp Hill Road and used, so we understand anecdotally, for their household water supply. A water main fixes such problems so that neighbours need not become enemies at the behest of idiot bureaucratic edict. 4. Fire hydrants all along the way - our incredible local volunteer firefighters would be very much in favour and might begin to think we actually appreciate their efforts! 1. It is therefore unthinkable that this project would not also include installation of a water main to service all residences along the route. 6. UNDER-GROUNDING OF POWER LINES. 1. Given that the landscape values of this entire area are presently under scrutiny (Landscape Schedule Review) and we are told that the landscape has limited capacity to have all sorts of “activities” present on the privately owned land in question - how about we put some of the none too pretty power lines that run on public land underground at the same time? 1. Or are giant steel power poles and lines visually acceptable to the delicate sensibilities of the proponents of this particular piece of bureaucratic madness (Landscape Schedule Review) and is it the case that they are only offended by what happens on private land ... Silverlight Studios excepted of course? 7. HIGH SPEED FIBRE IN SAME TRENCH. 1. No brainer. 8. WOULD MY SUGGESTIONS BENEFIT OUR BUSINESS “LANDESCAPE WANAKA” IF ADOPTED? 1. Most definitely - but nowhere near as much as they would benefit the rest of the community. Rik Deaton - Wednesday, 20 July 2022 Page 3 of 3 on Linkedin Email Lake Hawea Wastewater Issue Preferred Option Feedback Not Questions ... Predictions and Suggestions. Rik Deaton 1. MY PREDICTIONS ABOUT FUTURE DEVELOPMENT IN OUR REGION. 1. We ain’t seen nuthin’ yet! The construction and development industry is a voracious beast that needs constant feeding and it is just getting started in this oh so attractive and desirable place in which to live. The whole world now wants to escape to New Zealand as societies are visibly coming apart at the seams around the globe. What this area will mostly get is a new moneyed elite whose wealth will continue to drive up property values which will in turn drive up Property Value Based Taxation to the point that many existing residents will be driven from their homes. 1. Tarras Airport and Silverlight Studios Theme Park? My call is they were a done deal between government and the big end of town a year before we ever heard about them and they are the start of the complete infill of all the river valleys between Wanaka, Hawea and Cromwell ... Auckland South by 2035. 2. Property Value Based Taxation is a fully regressive class of taxation that attempts to gain legitimacy from the fatuous assumption that one’s income (that from which one must pay taxation) magically remains commensurate with the value of one’s home. In an area such as this, a region that is almost infinitely desirable and very limited in supply, the end result is relentless financial pressure to subdivide and develop and, almost certainly, there is bugger all we can do to stop it. 3. Can you imagine what it feels like to have the taxation that pertains to your home go from a few thousand dollars a year (like it is here now) to almost a quarter of a million dollars a decade later? I don’t have to imagine it ... it happened to us in Australia and the end result was our complete financial destruction in the GFC of 2008 courtesy of Property Value Based Taxation. 4. Property value is a false marker of an individual’s ability to pay tax over a given taxation period but governments use it anyway and try to convince us it is valid. Bureaucracy simply knows no bounds and they are coming for your home with this mad form of taxation right now - “of course we can do it to you - “see, it says so right there in Volume 15, Section 12b, Subparagraph 6.3.8-A2. 5. Don’t ever imagine they won’t, I promise you they will. Whatever you think is about to happen here development wise - increase it by an order of magnitude and stand by for rates increases that will cripple you and new forms of this class of taxation you won’t believe any sane government could even consider. Not the fault of local government. They don’t write up the tax code, they just live with the nonsense as we all do. 6. If local “environmental” groups want to be more effective, try attacking the cause of population density increase instead of the symptoms ... Property Value Based Taxation. 2. SEISMIC RESILIENCY: BRIDGE FAILURE = LOSS OF SEWER SYSTEM: 1. Council is proposing to clip the new sewer pipe to the side of the two existing road bridges along the route: The bridge over the Hawea River at Camp Hill Road and the Page 1 of 3 bridge across the Clutha at Albert Town. My understanding is that it is almost a certainty that these bridges, along with the Red Bridge and Hawea Dam, will be wreckage in the river below where they presently stand post the AF8 Seismic Event we are warned by emergency services to expect “Next Sunday Morning”. 1. Instead of clipping the brand new sewer pipe to two seventy year old to bridges almost certain to fail in a seismic event that is also a certainty ... use the pipe as structure, or clip it to the structure of new cycle trail system suspension bridges at these locations that are A) built to withstand AF8 and B) wide enough (i.e. 2.5 -3m) to allow the passage of two way cycle traffic and one way passage of the new generation of narrow track electric vehicles such as the Archimoto “First Responder” and the Canadian made “Lyte Horse”. 1. Do this and you introduce dramatic seismic resiliency to townships that will otherwise be entirely cut off from each other and from the desperately needed help from civil emergency response teams post AF8. 2. You also make sure that the pristine waters of the Hawea and Clutha rivers are not polluted from source to sea by the effluent draining from the certain to be ruptured sewer pipe that was ripped from the side of two ancient and certain to fail road bridges. 3. CYCLE TRAIL / COMMUTER TRANSPORT POTENTIAL 1. This new suspension bridge at Albert Town can also perhaps be the critically important link for Wanaka to connect to the soon to be completed great rides integrated network ... probably in the wrong place to also solve the “Outlet Trail Issue” but you can’t solve them all I guess. Or can you? Over to you Tracks Trust and Bike Wanaka! 2. If you proceed with this option (and clearly this is all just going through the motions and you will proceed) you are about to dig up the vast majority of the entire road reserve alongside the major transport corridors between Lake Hawea, Hawea Flats and Albert Town/Wanaka. This means major earthworks along the entire route that will begin at Butterfield Road (Hawea Flat for all intents and purposes) and run all the way to Albert Town. 1. This means that this same road reserve, post installation of services, will be reformed into some landscaped and shaped condition - might that reforming be carried out such that it serves a purpose other than merely landscaping and water runoff control? 1. Will our council exhibit the same mind numbing incompetence that is now on permanent display along Riverbank Road and at the new subdivision approaching the problem intersection at Vet Corner and waste all that machine time and diesel fuel recreating the same functionless contours as previously existed ... or will QLDC use that same machine time and diesel to form that same roadside verge into a wide, medium speed roadside cycle and e-mobility commuter trail all the way from Hawea Flats and Lake Hawea to Wanaka. 2. Given all the hand wringing and virtue signalling this Council engages in about how worried it is about traffic increase and how much it cares about Active Transport, it is inconceivable it would not take this golden opportunity to add such a cycle trail given that the only incremental cost would be the gravel surface and three years of Resource Consent consultancy to give itself permission. Mind you, it didn't occur to them along Riverbank Road or at Vet Corner ... but I’ll be here to give them a nudge this time. 1. It should be self evident that such a cycle and low speed e-mobility corridor would take much of the (certain to increase) pressure from the scenic riverside and lakefront trails by providing a more direct commuter/shopping route and thereby leave those wonderful scenic assets to the recreation and tourism which they are best suited. 2. Also, of course, such a roadside cycle trail would pass by the entrances to the ever subdividing and infilling areas along the entire route such that all those Page 2 of 3 residents, ever increasing in number, could opt for another form of transport as technology shift makes that choice ever more viable. 4. ABILITY TO LINK INTO THE SEWER LINE ALONG THE WAY 1. I trust that it will be possible for all residences along the route, extant and soon to be subdivided and built, to link into the sewer line at any point in the usual manner so they can stop using septic tanks. Anything else is unthinkable. 2. Again from our Australian experience. As the population and housing density increased along the northern Beaches of Sydney (the home they stole from us was at Palm Beach for those familiar), the output of partially treated effluent from septic tanks in the unsewered area became so odious that new builds were required to install holding tanks and have them pumped out to a tanker truck on a regular basis. Can you imagine the cost of that today? Eventually the area had sewer lines installed into the difficult topography at great cost. 1. It would be madness not to plan for and to provide access to this line all along the route from the outset. 5. WATER MAIN IS ALSO A MUST 1. As the infill I predict in Point 1 above takes place, the potential for contamination of ground water increases as well, especially from existing and new septic tanks. Currently all residences along the entire route of the proposed pipeline get their household water from ground water. 2. In addition, might this groundwater resource be diminished by continued exploitation as has been the case at Hawea in recent years, or interrupted entirely by either climate change or a major seismic event? The answer is obviously yes to all these questions. 3. Then there is the Three Waters insanity imposed, as ever, by overreaching bureaucracy. In our case, we are now legally liable for the quality of water being taken without our consent from a spring on our property and piped under our fields to an unknown number of our neighbours on the other side of Camp Hill Road and used, so we understand anecdotally, for their household water supply. A water main fixes such problems so that neighbours need not become enemies at the behest of idiot bureaucratic edict. 4. Fire hydrants all along the way - our incredible local volunteer firefighters would be very much in favour and might begin to think we actually appreciate their efforts! 1. It is therefore unthinkable that this project would not also include installation of a water main to service all residences along the route. 6. UNDER-GROUNDING OF POWER LINES. 1. Given that the landscape values of this entire area are presently under scrutiny (Landscape Schedule Review) and we are told that the landscape has limited capacity to have all sorts of “activities” present on the privately owned land in question - how about we put some of the none too pretty power lines that run on public land underground at the same time? 1. Or are giant steel power poles and lines visually acceptable to the delicate sensibilities of the proponents of this particular piece of bureaucratic madness (Landscape Schedule Review) and is it the case that they are only offended by what happens on private land ... Silverlight Studios excepted of course? 7. HIGH SPEED FIBRE IN SAME TRENCH. 1. No brainer. 8. WOULD MY SUGGESTIONS BENEFIT OUR BUSINESS “LANDESCAPE WANAKA” IF ADOPTED? 1. Most definitely - but nowhere near as much as they would benefit the rest of the community. Rik Deaton - Wednesday, 20 July 2022 Page 3 of 3 link

    Lake Hawea Wastewater Issue Preferred Option Feedback Not Questions ... Predictions and Suggestions. Rik Deaton 1. MY PREDICTIONS ABOUT FUTURE DEVELOPMENT IN OUR REGION. 1. We ain’t seen nuthin’ yet! The construction and development industry is a voracious beast that needs constant feeding and it is just getting started in this oh so attractive and desirable place in which to live. The whole world now wants to escape to New Zealand as societies are visibly coming apart at the seams around the globe. What this area will mostly get is a new moneyed elite whose wealth will continue to drive up property values which will in turn drive up Property Value Based Taxation to the point that many existing residents will be driven from their homes. 1. Tarras Airport and Silverlight Studios Theme Park? My call is they were a done deal between government and the big end of town a year before we ever heard about them and they are the start of the complete infill of all the river valleys between Wanaka, Hawea and Cromwell ... Auckland South by 2035. 2. Property Value Based Taxation is a fully regressive class of taxation that attempts to gain legitimacy from the fatuous assumption that one’s income (that from which one must pay taxation) magically remains commensurate with the value of one’s home. In an area such as this, a region that is almost infinitely desirable and very limited in supply, the end result is relentless financial pressure to subdivide and develop and, almost certainly, there is bugger all we can do to stop it. 3. Can you imagine what it feels like to have the taxation that pertains to your home go from a few thousand dollars a year (like it is here now) to almost a quarter of a million dollars a decade later? I don’t have to imagine it ... it happened to us in Australia and the end result was our complete financial destruction in the GFC of 2008 courtesy of Property Value Based Taxation. 4. Property value is a false marker of an individual’s ability to pay tax over a given taxation period but governments use it anyway and try to convince us it is valid. Bureaucracy simply knows no bounds and they are coming for your home with this mad form of taxation right now - “of course we can do it to you - “see, it says so right there in Volume 15, Section 12b, Subparagraph 6.3.8-A2. 5. Don’t ever imagine they won’t, I promise you they will. Whatever you think is about to happen here development wise - increase it by an order of magnitude and stand by for rates increases that will cripple you and new forms of this class of taxation you won’t believe any sane government could even consider. Not the fault of local government. They don’t write up the tax code, they just live with the nonsense as we all do. 6. If local “environmental” groups want to be more effective, try attacking the cause of population density increase instead of the symptoms ... Property Value Based Taxation. 2. SEISMIC RESILIENCY: BRIDGE FAILURE = LOSS OF SEWER SYSTEM: 1. Council is proposing to clip the new sewer pipe to the side of the two existing road bridges along the route: The bridge over the Hawea River at Camp Hill Road and the Page 1 of 3 bridge across the Clutha at Albert Town. My understanding is that it is almost a certainty that these bridges, along with the Red Bridge and Hawea Dam, will be wreckage in the river below where they presently stand post the AF8 Seismic Event we are warned by emergency services to expect “Next Sunday Morning”. 1. Instead of clipping the brand new sewer pipe to two seventy year old to bridges almost certain to fail in a seismic event that is also a certainty ... use the pipe as structure, or clip it to the structure of new cycle trail system suspension bridges at these locations that are A) built to withstand AF8 and B) wide enough (i.e. 2.5 -3m) to allow the passage of two way cycle traffic and one way passage of the new generation of narrow track electric vehicles such as the Archimoto “First Responder” and the Canadian made “Lyte Horse”. 1. Do this and you introduce dramatic seismic resiliency to townships that will otherwise be entirely cut off from each other and from the desperately needed help from civil emergency response teams post AF8. 2. You also make sure that the pristine waters of the Hawea and Clutha rivers are not polluted from source to sea by the effluent draining from the certain to be ruptured sewer pipe that was ripped from the side of two ancient and certain to fail road bridges. 3. CYCLE TRAIL / COMMUTER TRANSPORT POTENTIAL 1. This new suspension bridge at Albert Town can also perhaps be the critically important link for Wanaka to connect to the soon to be completed great rides integrated network ... probably in the wrong place to also solve the “Outlet Trail Issue” but you can’t solve them all I guess. Or can you? Over to you Tracks Trust and Bike Wanaka! 2. If you proceed with this option (and clearly this is all just going through the motions and you will proceed) you are about to dig up the vast majority of the entire road reserve alongside the major transport corridors between Lake Hawea, Hawea Flats and Albert Town/Wanaka. This means major earthworks along the entire route that will begin at Butterfield Road (Hawea Flat for all intents and purposes) and run all the way to Albert Town. 1. This means that this same road reserve, post installation of services, will be reformed into some landscaped and shaped condition - might that reforming be carried out such that it serves a purpose other than merely landscaping and water runoff control? 1. Will our council exhibit the same mind numbing incompetence that is now on permanent display along Riverbank Road and at the new subdivision approaching the problem intersection at Vet Corner and waste all that machine time and diesel fuel recreating the same functionless contours as previously existed ... or will QLDC use that same machine time and diesel to form that same roadside verge into a wide, medium speed roadside cycle and e-mobility commuter trail all the way from Hawea Flats and Lake Hawea to Wanaka. 2. Given all the hand wringing and virtue signalling this Council engages in about how worried it is about traffic increase and how much it cares about Active Transport, it is inconceivable it would not take this golden opportunity to add such a cycle trail given that the only incremental cost would be the gravel surface and three years of Resource Consent consultancy to give itself permission. Mind you, it didn't occur to them along Riverbank Road or at Vet Corner ... but I’ll be here to give them a nudge this time. 1. It should be self evident that such a cycle and low speed e-mobility corridor would take much of the (certain to increase) pressure from the scenic riverside and lakefront trails by providing a more direct commuter/shopping route and thereby leave those wonderful scenic assets to the recreation and tourism which they are best suited. 2. Also, of course, such a roadside cycle trail would pass by the entrances to the ever subdividing and infilling areas along the entire route such that all those Page 2 of 3 residents, ever increasing in number, could opt for another form of transport as technology shift makes that choice ever more viable. 4. ABILITY TO LINK INTO THE SEWER LINE ALONG THE WAY 1. I trust that it will be possible for all residences along the route, extant and soon to be subdivided and built, to link into the sewer line at any point in the usual manner so they can stop using septic tanks. Anything else is unthinkable. 2. Again from our Australian experience. As the population and housing density increased along the northern Beaches of Sydney (the home they stole from us was at Palm Beach for those familiar), the output of partially treated effluent from septic tanks in the unsewered area became so odious that new builds were required to install holding tanks and have them pumped out to a tanker truck on a regular basis. Can you imagine the cost of that today? Eventually the area had sewer lines installed into the difficult topography at great cost. 1. It would be madness not to plan for and to provide access to this line all along the route from the outset. 5. WATER MAIN IS ALSO A MUST 1. As the infill I predict in Point 1 above takes place, the potential for contamination of ground water increases as well, especially from existing and new septic tanks. Currently all residences along the entire route of the proposed pipeline get their household water from ground water. 2. In addition, might this groundwater resource be diminished by continued exploitation as has been the case at Hawea in recent years, or interrupted entirely by either climate change or a major seismic event? The answer is obviously yes to all these questions. 3. Then there is the Three Waters insanity imposed, as ever, by overreaching bureaucracy. In our case, we are now legally liable for the quality of water being taken without our consent from a spring on our property and piped under our fields to an unknown number of our neighbours on the other side of Camp Hill Road and used, so we understand anecdotally, for their household water supply. A water main fixes such problems so that neighbours need not become enemies at the behest of idiot bureaucratic edict. 4. Fire hydrants all along the way - our incredible local volunteer firefighters would be very much in favour and might begin to think we actually appreciate their efforts! 1. It is therefore unthinkable that this project would not also include installation of a water main to service all residences along the route. 6. UNDER-GROUNDING OF POWER LINES. 1. Given that the landscape values of this entire area are presently under scrutiny (Landscape Schedule Review) and we are told that the landscape has limited capacity to have all sorts of “activities” present on the privately owned land in question - how about we put some of the none too pretty power lines that run on public land underground at the same time? 1. Or are giant steel power poles and lines visually acceptable to the delicate sensibilities of the proponents of this particular piece of bureaucratic madness (Landscape Schedule Review) and is it the case that they are only offended by what happens on private land ... Silverlight Studios excepted of course? 7. HIGH SPEED FIBRE IN SAME TRENCH. 1. No brainer. 8. WOULD MY SUGGESTIONS BENEFIT OUR BUSINESS “LANDESCAPE WANAKA” IF ADOPTED? 1. Most definitely - but nowhere near as much as they would benefit the rest of the community. Rik Deaton - Wednesday, 20 July 2022 Page 3 of 3

    Rik Deaton asked over 2 years ago

    Thanks for sharing this Rik. 

  • Share The stages of the indicated programme have been described as follows • Concept Design • Finalise Business Case • Preliminary Design • Detailed Design • Construction Could you please describe the key components of each and the deliverable outcome at end of each stage on Facebook Share The stages of the indicated programme have been described as follows • Concept Design • Finalise Business Case • Preliminary Design • Detailed Design • Construction Could you please describe the key components of each and the deliverable outcome at end of each stage on Twitter Share The stages of the indicated programme have been described as follows • Concept Design • Finalise Business Case • Preliminary Design • Detailed Design • Construction Could you please describe the key components of each and the deliverable outcome at end of each stage on Linkedin Email The stages of the indicated programme have been described as follows • Concept Design • Finalise Business Case • Preliminary Design • Detailed Design • Construction Could you please describe the key components of each and the deliverable outcome at end of each stage link

    The stages of the indicated programme have been described as follows • Concept Design • Finalise Business Case • Preliminary Design • Detailed Design • Construction Could you please describe the key components of each and the deliverable outcome at end of each stage

    JDL asked over 2 years ago

    Phase

    Typical Inputs

    Key Deliverable

    Concept Design

    • Technical reports such as Geotechnical Report.
    • Risks, issues, and opportunities register.
    • Safety in Design (SiD) register.
    • Concept Constructability Report.
    • Cost Estimate Report.
    • Whole of Life carbon estimate.
    • Consenting strategy.

    Concept Design Report conceptual design drawings including long sections.

    Business Case

    • Strategic assessment, investment objectives, scope, critical success factors
    • Options assessment
    • Commercial arrangements 
    • Financial analysis 
    • Management planning (e.g. project execution plan, consenting strategy, risk & benefit management plans, governance and management structures etc.)

    Final business case for approval

    Preliminary Design

    • Updated Technical Reports.
    • Updated Risks, issues and opportunities register.
    • Updated SiD register.
    • Preliminary design drawings including long sections. 
    • Updated cost estimate report.
    • Draft Technical Specification.

    Preliminary Design Report with updated schedule of quantities and drawings.

     

    Detailed Design

    • Schedule of Quantities.
    • Technical Specification.
    • For Tender Drawings.
    • Producer Statements (if required) e.g. PS1.
    • Risk Register.
    • SID Register.
    • Construction Methodology Report.
    • Draft O&M Manuals.
    • Updated cost estimate report.

    Detailed Design Report including Construction Drawings and Specification for Tender.

     

    Construction

     

    Construction and commissioning of the wastewater conveyance scheme.

  • Share The preferred option involves linking into Project Pure: what are the rates implications for Hawea property owners compared to stand alone plant at Lake Hawea? on Facebook Share The preferred option involves linking into Project Pure: what are the rates implications for Hawea property owners compared to stand alone plant at Lake Hawea? on Twitter Share The preferred option involves linking into Project Pure: what are the rates implications for Hawea property owners compared to stand alone plant at Lake Hawea? on Linkedin Email The preferred option involves linking into Project Pure: what are the rates implications for Hawea property owners compared to stand alone plant at Lake Hawea? link

    The preferred option involves linking into Project Pure: what are the rates implications for Hawea property owners compared to stand alone plant at Lake Hawea?

    JDL asked over 2 years ago

    A standalone wastewater plant in Hāwea would be more expensive to build and operate. This would cost the ratepayers more than our proposed solution.

    We will have a better understanding of rating impacts when the financial analysis for this project has been completed. 

  • Share As at 6 August ( date of Lake Hawea drop in session) what if any significant issues have been identified which were not foreseen when the original assessment of options were considered? on Facebook Share As at 6 August ( date of Lake Hawea drop in session) what if any significant issues have been identified which were not foreseen when the original assessment of options were considered? on Twitter Share As at 6 August ( date of Lake Hawea drop in session) what if any significant issues have been identified which were not foreseen when the original assessment of options were considered? on Linkedin Email As at 6 August ( date of Lake Hawea drop in session) what if any significant issues have been identified which were not foreseen when the original assessment of options were considered? link

    As at 6 August ( date of Lake Hawea drop in session) what if any significant issues have been identified which were not foreseen when the original assessment of options were considered?

    JDL asked over 2 years ago

    To date, no significant issues have been identified that were not foreseen as part of evaluating the short list of options.

  • Share As part of the Concept Design process what options have or are being explored for reducing the risk of waste entering the Hawea river or Clutha rive in the event of a significant rupture to the pipe. on Facebook Share As part of the Concept Design process what options have or are being explored for reducing the risk of waste entering the Hawea river or Clutha rive in the event of a significant rupture to the pipe. on Twitter Share As part of the Concept Design process what options have or are being explored for reducing the risk of waste entering the Hawea river or Clutha rive in the event of a significant rupture to the pipe. on Linkedin Email As part of the Concept Design process what options have or are being explored for reducing the risk of waste entering the Hawea river or Clutha rive in the event of a significant rupture to the pipe. link

    As part of the Concept Design process what options have or are being explored for reducing the risk of waste entering the Hawea river or Clutha rive in the event of a significant rupture to the pipe.

    JDL asked over 2 years ago

    Several options are currently being considered and will be finalised as part of Concept Design. The options include: 

    • Installation of isolation valves either side of the bridge crossings.
    • Encasing the pipeline if PE is used.
    • Use of durable materials such as ductile iron. 
  • Share Is financial assistance being sought from Central govt? If so what is the maximum likely % impact this would make to reducing cost to rate payers? on Facebook Share Is financial assistance being sought from Central govt? If so what is the maximum likely % impact this would make to reducing cost to rate payers? on Twitter Share Is financial assistance being sought from Central govt? If so what is the maximum likely % impact this would make to reducing cost to rate payers? on Linkedin Email Is financial assistance being sought from Central govt? If so what is the maximum likely % impact this would make to reducing cost to rate payers? link

    Is financial assistance being sought from Central govt? If so what is the maximum likely % impact this would make to reducing cost to rate payers?

    JDL asked over 2 years ago

    It is too early to state the impact any third-party funding support would have on ratepayers. A detailed financial analysis will be prepared in support of the final business case. We will update the community on this matter when we have an informed position to share.

  • Share Can you confirm the proposed pipe diameter and the maximum population size this could support? on Facebook Share Can you confirm the proposed pipe diameter and the maximum population size this could support? on Twitter Share Can you confirm the proposed pipe diameter and the maximum population size this could support? on Linkedin Email Can you confirm the proposed pipe diameter and the maximum population size this could support? link

    Can you confirm the proposed pipe diameter and the maximum population size this could support?

    JDL asked over 2 years ago

    The pipe diameter is OD 315mm. The Basis of Design has assumed a ‘usually resident population’ of 7000 in Hāwea, and 800 in Hāwea Flat.

  • Share The QLDC Climate and Biodiversity plan signals a commitment (in several places) by Council to enhance the biodiversity in our area. It places responsibility on itself. There is opportunity to create native plant corridor along the pipe line. What consider has been or will be given to planting shallow rooted native plants on Facebook Share The QLDC Climate and Biodiversity plan signals a commitment (in several places) by Council to enhance the biodiversity in our area. It places responsibility on itself. There is opportunity to create native plant corridor along the pipe line. What consider has been or will be given to planting shallow rooted native plants on Twitter Share The QLDC Climate and Biodiversity plan signals a commitment (in several places) by Council to enhance the biodiversity in our area. It places responsibility on itself. There is opportunity to create native plant corridor along the pipe line. What consider has been or will be given to planting shallow rooted native plants on Linkedin Email The QLDC Climate and Biodiversity plan signals a commitment (in several places) by Council to enhance the biodiversity in our area. It places responsibility on itself. There is opportunity to create native plant corridor along the pipe line. What consider has been or will be given to planting shallow rooted native plants link

    The QLDC Climate and Biodiversity plan signals a commitment (in several places) by Council to enhance the biodiversity in our area. It places responsibility on itself. There is opportunity to create native plant corridor along the pipe line. What consider has been or will be given to planting shallow rooted native plants

    JDL asked over 2 years ago

    This has not been considered to date. We will note this as a potential opportunity in the business case for further exploration as design progresses.

  • Share Did you consider going across Hawea dam so camp ground can connect in and along state Highway 6 to Albert town bridge. You would get the camp ground and houses along way to have to connect in and help pay for some of the cost and not just charge ratepayers to all pay through private land with no connections on Facebook Share Did you consider going across Hawea dam so camp ground can connect in and along state Highway 6 to Albert town bridge. You would get the camp ground and houses along way to have to connect in and help pay for some of the cost and not just charge ratepayers to all pay through private land with no connections on Twitter Share Did you consider going across Hawea dam so camp ground can connect in and along state Highway 6 to Albert town bridge. You would get the camp ground and houses along way to have to connect in and help pay for some of the cost and not just charge ratepayers to all pay through private land with no connections on Linkedin Email Did you consider going across Hawea dam so camp ground can connect in and along state Highway 6 to Albert town bridge. You would get the camp ground and houses along way to have to connect in and help pay for some of the cost and not just charge ratepayers to all pay through private land with no connections link

    Did you consider going across Hawea dam so camp ground can connect in and along state Highway 6 to Albert town bridge. You would get the camp ground and houses along way to have to connect in and help pay for some of the cost and not just charge ratepayers to all pay through private land with no connections

    Hewitt asked over 2 years ago

    Kia ora, thanks for your question.  

    The preferred option will provide for the future connection of both the campsite and Hāwea Flat. The alignment you have proposed is longer than the presently preferred option. The increased length of the pipeline adds engineering complexity, will be more costly to build and operate, and will increase the cost to connect Hāwea Flat in future. It is also important to note the earth dam is not owned by QLDC; it is unlikely an easement could be secured across the dam for a new wastewater pipeline.