Archive: Media Releases

28 January 2020 Freya Indigo, a recently elected member of the Featherston Community Board, tendered her community board resignation to Council Chief Executive Harry Wilson on Sunday 26 January 2020.  An…

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24/01/20 South Wairarapa Mayor Alex Beijen is urging the community to immediately use less water outside and to conserve water generally as the summer heat kicks in. “We simply don’t…

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15 January 2020 An announcement from Under-Secretary Fletcher Tabuteau today of over $7m in Provincial Growth Fund [PGF] funding will see Wairarapa’s much needed Water Resilience Strategy and the Wakamoekau…

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15 January 2020 A discharge of partially treated wastewater has occurred from the Martinborough Wastewater Treatment Plant. We estimate that about 90,000 litres – three rainwater tanks-worth – of partially treated…

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8 January 2020 Water restrictions in Featherston and Greytown are today being tightened to hand-held watering devices only. This means that, in all three South Wairarapa towns, sprinklers, irrigation systems…

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Monday 16 December, 2019 More than $100,000 has been secured to progress a community-initiated project to develop a region-wide recreation trail linking the five main Wairarapa towns. The Wairarapa Trails…

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10 December 2019 South Wairarapa Mayor Alex Beijen is urging the community to immediately cease using water outside and to conserve water generally. “On Monday evening, the pump on the…

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7 December 2019 South Wairarapa Mayor Alex Beijen is pleased with progress toward installing UV treatment for the Greytown township. Ultraviolet light inactivates microbes in water and will provide an…

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6 December 2019 Craggy Range packed a big surprise at the Martinborough Square Pack the Bus event today. The local vineyard gifted 800-plus Santa sacks to Wairarapa’s Pack the Bus…

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