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Swimming Pool Hours for School Terms

POSTED ON: 29 January 2020 | IN: News

School Terms: Saturday, 30 November 2019 to Friday, 13 December 2019 Monday, 27 January 2020 to Sunday, 15 March 2020 School Holidays and Public Holidays: Monday, 16 December 2019 to…

Early close for Greytown and Featherston Swimming pool – Swimming Club Meets 2020

POSTED ON: 28 January 2020 | IN: News

Please note that there are some early closures to the public of the Featherston and Greytown pools due to competitions. Greytown Swimming Club: Sue Keltie Meet this Sunday, 2 February 2020 –…

MEDIA RELEASE: Immediate Outdoor Water Ban for Martinborough Township

POSTED ON: 27 January 2020 | IN: News, Media Releases

27 January 2020 Despite the call to the community to immediately cease using water outside and to conserve water generally, water consumption has reached critical levels in Martinborough. “Over the…

MEDIA RELEASE: Featherston and Greytown join Martinborough with a complete outdoor water ban

POSTED ON: 27 January 2020 | IN: News, Media Releases

28 January 2020 Water restrictions in Featherston and Greytown are today being tightened to a complete outdoor water ban. This means that in all three South Wairarapa towns are on…

MEDIA RELEASE: Featherston Community Board Member Indigo Freya resigns

POSTED ON: 27 January 2020 | IN: News, 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…

Dog Control Policy and Practices Report for 2018/2019

POSTED ON: 27 January 2020 | IN: News

To enable Council to adopt the report on dog control policy and practices so as to meet the requirements of Section 10A of the Dog Control Act 1996. Dog Control…

MEDIA RELEASE: Love it or Lose it – Martinborough must use less water

POSTED ON: 23 January 2020 | IN: News, Media Releases

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…

Changes to rubbish and recycling kerbside collection days due to public holidays

POSTED ON: 23 January 2020 | IN: News

23 January 2020 All South Wairarapa urban residents who receive the kerbside service have collections for rubbish weekly and for recycling weekly, but alternating between wheelie bin (red week) and…

MEDIA RELEASE: Water Resilience Strategy, Wakamoekau community water storage scheme secures over $7m

POSTED ON: 15 January 2020 | IN: News, Media Releases

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…

MEDIA RELEASE: Partially treated wastewater discharged to Ruamahunga River

POSTED ON: 15 January 2020 | IN: News, Media Releases

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…