Christchurch Waste

Christchurch — It’s your last chance to have your say about how you’d like Christchurch’s wastewater system to look in 10, 30 or 100 years time.

By Christchurch City Council
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Christchurch — Christchurch residents can have a say about how they’d like the city’s wastewater system to look in 10, 30 and 100 years time.

By Christchurch City Council
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Christchurch — Silver Fern Farms, Christchurch City Council and Environment Canterbury are celebrating the end of a successful project to replace a pipe discharging treated wastewater into the Waimakariri River.

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Christchurch — The Christchurch City Council has achieved a key milestone in its Major Sewer Upgrade this month, with final tunnelling work completed for the Western Interceptor pipeline development.

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Christchurch — The Government will provide $509,000 from the Waste Minimisation Fund to help residents in Canterbury’s red zone to dispose of their hazardous household waste safely, Environment Minister Hon Dr Nick Smith announced today.

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Christchurch — The Government has today announced that it will provide $509,000 from the Waste Minimisation Fund to help residents in Canterbury’s Red Zone safely dispose of their hazardous household waste.

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Christchurch — Christchurch City Council is asking residents to place all building material scraps, processed (either treated or machined) wood, off-cuts and residues such as sawdust and cold ash into their red rubbish bins, not their green organics or yellow recycling bins.

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Christchurch — Sewer clearing and temporary solutions have restored sewer services in all Christchurch streets.

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Christchurch — Around 60 temporary bypass pumps in the eastern suburbs are helping to pump away approximately 600 litres of wastewater per minute, per pump, per day.

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Christchurch — The goal to have sewer service returned to all city homes by the end of August is to stand, despite set-backs caused by the 13 June earthquakes.

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Christchurch — The Christchurch City Council has started removing portable toilets from city streets as sewer services are restored to earthquake-affected homes.

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Christchurch — The Christchurch City Council is this week contacting some residents in the worst-affected areas of the city to advise that temporary measures are being taken to restore sewer service to their homes A further 30 areas have been identified in the worst-affected eastern suburbs where these temporary measures are necessary.

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Christchurch — The Christchurch City Council today released a map of the damaged sewer network in the east of the city to help residents understand the extent of the earthquake repair work required and progress made so far This is the second in a series of maps being prepared by the Council to outline key issues and repairs to the city’s earthquake-damaged sewer network.

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Christchurch — A further 7000 houses in the worst-affected areas of the city have so far this week been told they no longer need to use their chemical toilets Around 30,000 chemical toilets were distributed to the worst-affected areas of the city after the 22 February earthquake, where sewers were damaged and/or were full of silt.

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Christchurch — Clearing of silt and sand from city wastewater pipes is progressing well and the Christchurch City Council will today start contacting residents who no longer need to use their chemical toilets.

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Christchurch — University of Canterbury researchers are unravelling the critical role that disaster waste management plays in recovery from natural disasters.

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Christchurch —   The Christchurch City Council will permit the establishment of the Burwood Resource Recovery Park to sort, process and recycle the 4.25 million tonnes of building rubble created by the 22 February earthquake.

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Christchurch — Road cones will soon be made in New Zealand using waste plastic, thanks to local innovation and support from the Government, Minister for the Environment, Nick Smith announced today.

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Christchurch — Relief has come to householders with no waste water service as Council installs temporary tanks on or outside their properties.

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Christchurch — “Think about the long term effects.” That from recycling and waste specialist, Richard Lloyd, after a Council decision to allow contractors to dump unsorted building waste into “clean fills”.

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Christchurch — 5:54pm Monday 6 September 2010 .

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Christchurch — The Christchurch City Council advises residents that their rubbish will continue to be collected as usual in most areas of the city.

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