Milliscreen Shutdown Successful For The Environment

The shutdown of the Napier Milliscreen, necessary to complete construction vital for the new wastewater plant, has been a resounding success.

Although scheduled for 12 weeks, the work was completed inside 10 weeks.

During this time the beach was cleaned twice daily and the total amount of debris that may have come from the outfall was less than ½ a 2 litre ice-cream container per day. For the environment and our wastewater plant, both currently and in the future, this is a significantly positive environmental result.

The manual raking of the screens by four Council workers rostered 24 hours a day for the entire period of the shutdown, contributed hugely to this great result.

The wastewater plant is now back to normal although the Council will be busier than ever while the construction of the new biological trickling filter plant for Napier’s wastewater is underway.

Mayor Barbara Arnott said:

“Congratulations to Council officers and the Napier public who joined with us in attempting to reduce all those nasties that should not be disposed of in toilets. It worked and the city and the environment have been the winners”.