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Small community water supply upgrades

Haumoana WaterWork on ensuring all of our Hastings public drinking water supplies meet new national standards is well underway, including on eight supplies that provide drinking water to our small communities.

The eight community supplies and the number of connections to them are:

Haumoana/Te Awanga/Parkhill 820
Whirinaki/Esk: 320
Te Pōhue: 20
Waimārama: 340
Clive: 390
Waipātiki 75
Whakatū 150
Waipatu 12

Each water supply is being managed as a discrete project (under the one Community Supplies Project umbrella) as each of them have different requirements depending on the water source and the age and state of the existing infrastructure.

The upgrade of small community drinking water is a significant contributor to meeting the aims of the Hastings Drinking Water Strategy (2018). That strategy recognises that safe drinking water is Council’s number one priority.

It was prepared in the wake of the Havelock North water crisis in 2016 and the ensuing Government Inquiry into the reasons for the contamination. That event showed us and the rest of New Zealand just how vulnerable our drinking water supplies can be.

Each of the eight community supplies has been assessed and a preferred plan to improve safety, capacity and resilience prepared. Some are able to be improved on the current sites using the existing water source, while others will benefit from a new water source and new site.

All supplies are being treated with UV light and will continue to be chlorinated. Depending on the source, some supplies also require filtration prior to UV treatment.

Filtration (where required) and UV light treat the water at point of contact, while chlorine keeps the water safe as it travels through the pipe network to homes, schools and businesses.

The timing of improvements on the eight supplies varies, however it is estimated that all will be completed by mid to late 2022.

Information on progress and completed projects is being added to this page as it becomes available.

 Whakatū water treatment facility and upgraded playground complete

Whakatū water treatment facility and upgraded playground complete

A major milestone has been reached with the last of the small community drinking water upgrades now complete – an...

9 December 2022

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Hi-tech drinking water facility for Waipātiki

Hi-tech drinking water facility for Waipātiki

Waipātiki residents got a close look at the community’s brand new water treatment facility on Saturday, October ...

19 October 2022

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 Loan funding approved to complete drinking water projects

Loan funding approved to complete drinking water projects

As Hastings’ major drinking water network upgrade nears completion mid-next year, Covid-related contractual delay...

15 September 2022

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Clive’s water supply improvements completed

Clive’s water supply improvements completed

Clive’s new drinking water facility is supplying water to the town’s residents; the fourth of eight Hastings sm...

7 October 2021

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Start-of-the-art drinking water facility for Waimārama

Start-of-the-art drinking water facility for Waimārama

A new drinking water treatment and storage facility in Waimārama was blessed on Wednesday, before water flowed thr...

3 May 2021

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Haumoana first of eight community water supplies completed

Haumoana first of eight community water supplies completed

The first of Hastings District’s eight small community drinking water supply upgrades has been completed. The new...

19 October 2020

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Top woman: Pearl Jury first female with Civil Trade Certificate

Top woman: Pearl Jury first female with Civil Trade Certificate

The list of projects that Pearl Jury has worked on across Hawke’s Bay and beyond is impressive – she and her di...

8 October 2020

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Land gift for Te Pōhue water supply

Land gift for Te Pōhue water supply

A very generous gift of land from Rayonier Matariki Forests will ensure residents getting their drinking water from...

28 September 2020

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