If this had not been actively assessed, reported on, and exposed and pressured by CRUX, the Court would have had to rely on only the ORC report. While they were well done, this required the sanitizing by day light in the media, by CRUX to keep the Council and contractors accountable.
Crux first broke news of the council’s illegal discharge of partially treated effluent into local rivers in November 2024 with the QLDC’s CEO Mike Theelen denying our reports and saying Crux had a “scant regard for the truth” in our sewage coverage. The council funded local newspaper the Mountain Scene also ignored the sewage crisis for months.
Wonder what Mike Theelen says now. Hmm thinking He might be out of his depth & struggling for credibility along with his mate the Mayor, Avery & others reported.
Excerpt from a letter to the editor of Crux a couple of months ago as this disaster was beginning to unfold. The letter describes an entirely different wastewater management regime we will be using at our AgriTourism business in Wanaka. This concept uses motorhome toilets to reduce per person / per day toilet flushing volume from an estimated 41 litres to ~2.5 Litres followed by separate reticulation systems for black and grey water and separate treatment regimes.
End result is that the volume of human bodily waste that must treated, since it is not mixed with grey water as usual in municipal wastewater systems, becomes utterly trivial. As grey water is also dramatically reduced in volume (toilet flushing = ~38% of total wastewater) treatment and disposal becomes orders of magnitude less difficult and costly.
1. Then, of course, with all new Southern Lakes Region greenfield-site large-scale
development, the requirement should be that black and grey wastewater streams should
be, as described above, separated at source, minimised in volume and remain separated
throughout treatment and then reintroduced to subsurface soil biology on either a micro
(single building or cluster) or small (village or suburb) scale to complete the process. As
with the world’s developing and evolving renewables based electrical system, wastewater
management should become a “distributed” system instead of the utterly failed
“centralised” system it is now. Or We can just keep on allowing the big time local developers to keep on raking it in by building sub-standard buildings on ever smaller sections in ever larger areas that are effectively new suburbs and then plug the whole damn thing into the rapidly failing regional infrastructure systems and thereby make it our problem not theirs.
We at LandEscape Wanaka - The Maungawera Rural Visitor Zone - are always here for you
when you finally realise you need advice and assistance QLDC, and my hourly rate will be
substantially less than Veolia et al.
Rik Deaton … LandEscape Wanaka - The Maungawera Rural Visitor Zone
If this had not been actively assessed, reported on, and exposed and pressured by CRUX, the Court would have had to rely on only the ORC report. While they were well done, this required the sanitizing by day light in the media, by CRUX to keep the Council and contractors accountable.
Crux first broke news of the council’s illegal discharge of partially treated effluent into local rivers in November 2024 with the QLDC’s CEO Mike Theelen denying our reports and saying Crux had a “scant regard for the truth” in our sewage coverage. The council funded local newspaper the Mountain Scene also ignored the sewage crisis for months.
Wonder what Mike Theelen says now. Hmm thinking He might be out of his depth & struggling for credibility along with his mate the Mayor, Avery & others reported.
Clowns.
What is the point of all those backdated deadlines for the Operations Manual?
Well overdue ruling that must drive rapid action to fix our broken waste water systems - not just at the SWWTP but right across the district.
Well done Mr Editor. Shows council staff in a very poor light.
Excerpt from a letter to the editor of Crux a couple of months ago as this disaster was beginning to unfold. The letter describes an entirely different wastewater management regime we will be using at our AgriTourism business in Wanaka. This concept uses motorhome toilets to reduce per person / per day toilet flushing volume from an estimated 41 litres to ~2.5 Litres followed by separate reticulation systems for black and grey water and separate treatment regimes.
End result is that the volume of human bodily waste that must treated, since it is not mixed with grey water as usual in municipal wastewater systems, becomes utterly trivial. As grey water is also dramatically reduced in volume (toilet flushing = ~38% of total wastewater) treatment and disposal becomes orders of magnitude less difficult and costly.
1. Then, of course, with all new Southern Lakes Region greenfield-site large-scale
development, the requirement should be that black and grey wastewater streams should
be, as described above, separated at source, minimised in volume and remain separated
throughout treatment and then reintroduced to subsurface soil biology on either a micro
(single building or cluster) or small (village or suburb) scale to complete the process. As
with the world’s developing and evolving renewables based electrical system, wastewater
management should become a “distributed” system instead of the utterly failed
“centralised” system it is now. Or We can just keep on allowing the big time local developers to keep on raking it in by building sub-standard buildings on ever smaller sections in ever larger areas that are effectively new suburbs and then plug the whole damn thing into the rapidly failing regional infrastructure systems and thereby make it our problem not theirs.
We at LandEscape Wanaka - The Maungawera Rural Visitor Zone - are always here for you
when you finally realise you need advice and assistance QLDC, and my hourly rate will be
substantially less than Veolia et al.
Rik Deaton … LandEscape Wanaka - The Maungawera Rural Visitor Zone
Tick Nik Kiddle. ..
and it can do better - Pick Nik for Mayor!