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Drinking water projects

In 2018 Hastings District Council embarked on an ambitious plan to upgrade drinking water infrastructure.

Drinking Water Projects

In August 2016, the Havelock North water supply was contaminated with campylobacter after a heavy rain event.

Thousands of people became ill as a result and four people died – it was one of the most significant public health challenges ever faced by Hastings District Council and the community.

The event changed New Zealand’s view of the safety of aquifer-fed supplies and how water from them should be treated, and Council committed through the Long Term Plan 2018/28 to enhancing our drinking water infrastructure and treatment, to ensure its safety now and into the future.

Out of this came the 2018 Drinking Water Strategy – a programme of works to introduce additional water storage and UV and chlorine treatment to improve the safety, resilience and security of the entire drinking water network.

Together the Waiaroha and Frimley facilities will supply 60,000 Hastings households with drinking water (Waiaroha 20,000 households, Frimley 40,000 households).

As well as enabling effective water treatment, the 18 million litres stored across Waiaroha and Frimley, and 20 million litres in the Havelock North reservoirs will give the system resilience, ensuring there is drinking-water available in the event of a natural disaster.

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