Canterbury 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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Canterbury — Residents in areas where houses are being demolished are being asked to be vigilant and report any instances of illegal dumping of waste – be it household or demolition waste.

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Canterbury — Seventy per cent of Canterbury’s 977 dairy farms achieved full compliance with dairy shed effluent consent conditions in the latest season, up from 65 % in the previous season.

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Ashburton — A sharemilker in Flemington, near Ashburton, has pleaded guilty to two charges of discharging effluent into waterways during April and May 2011.

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Canterbury — The controversial pile of rubble on railway-owned land under the Durham Street overbridge has now been removed.

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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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Canterbury — A Canterbury farm manager who illegally discharged dairy effluent to land on a Springston property in October 2010 has been fined $20,000 and sentenced to 260 hours of community service after mitigation factors were taken into account.

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Akaroa — Christchurch City Council has approved the relocation of the Akaroa Wastewater Treatment Plant.

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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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Canterbury — Authorities are investigating the illegal dumping of asbestos in the Kowai riverbed in Hurunui.

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Canterbury — Environment Canterbury is currently investigating five cases of demolition waste being stockpiled, buried or burnt illegally.

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Canterbury — Canterbury based Envirocomp today announced plans to open its 2nd plant in the Hutt Valley later this year at the same time as Founder Karen Upston revealed that she will take the Envirocomp brand global with the financial backing of facilities services company OCS NZ.

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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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