Te Awamutu TRUSTED PROPERTY MANAGEMENT ENQUIRE NOW CouPublished Tuesday & Thursdayurier THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 2017 07 872 0927 Your community newspaper for over 100 years EXTRA COPIES 40c Rosetown Realty Ltd Licensed (REAA 2008) Upgrades for water Help out on Daffodil Day Can you help out on Daffodil Day? Local co-ordinator Kathy Te Awamutu needs more now Keighley would appreciate help for Daffodil Day, the Cancer Society fundraiser on Friday, August 25. If you have any fresh daffodils to donate, drop them off at the Baptist Church hall on Thursday, August 24. Helpers for the day are also required. Contact Mrs Keighley on 872 2852 or 022 066 4250. Sweet life of beekeeping Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a beekeeper? You can find out at the Te Awamutu Library next month when guest speaker Tim Hansen talks about his fascinating life as a beekeeper and the busy lives of bees. The free event is held in the Community Room at the Te Awamutu Library on Saturday, September 2 from 10.30am to 11.30am. Need a JP? Anyone needing the services of a Justice of the Peace can call in to Te Awamutu CAB office Monday, Wednesday or Fridays TC170817DT01 between 9.30am and 12.30pm. WATER WORKS: Waipa District Council network team leader Bevan Heath (left), manager water services Tony Hale and manager project JPs will be on hand and no delivery Lorraine Kendrick consider plans for upgrading Te Awamutu’s water supply system. appointment is necessary. At other times the Justice of Preliminary work will begin in mittee meeting Tuesday morning, expected to meet Te Awamutu’s Councillors agreed to release the Peace group ask that earnest within the next month to councillors brought forward a fresh water needs for the next 30 funds to allow initial design and people make an appointment upgrade Te Awamutu’s water $500,000 spend to begin an upgrade years. It will provide a resilient land negotiations to begin. The and please do not turn up at a supply. of the Parallel Road water treat- long-term water supply, enable new supply could be up and JP’s home unannounced. In Te Awamutu Waipa District ment plant, take water from the growth and when complete, will running by 2020, depending on Council struggles to supply enough River and pump the address taste and odour issues. the outcome of the 2018-28 water during summer. Water cur- treated water to Te Awamutu. Council held off pressing go 10-Year Plan. rently comes from the Mangauika The meeting heard that staff on the project until it had The total project is expected to Stream on Mt Pirongia and an and independent consultants had exhausted a search for new water cost around $25 million. underground bore on Frontier considered nine different options for the town via bores. The project will also end Road. to source water, including chal- Despite sinking five bores, seasonal taste and odour issues Under its resource conditions lenging the existing regional coun- only two sources of quality bore which, depending on weather from the Waikato Regional Coun- cil resource consent. water were found, one at Fron- conditions, can impact on cil, Council is restricted in how Based on a range of factors tier Road and the other at Tay- Pirongia and Te Awamutu for a much water it can take from the including cost, resilience of supply, lor’s Hill. The Taylor’s Hill bore few weeks each year. stream and will be restricted even projected growth, technical and has not been fully commissioned However, these issues would further by 2030. regulatory compliance and timing, but test results show it can only not be resolved until 2020. Given growth predicted for the this solution was judged best. service around 1500 properties. Councillors were advised that town and dry summers, Te Awa- The project, which was first But that’s not enough water to taste and odour issues could be mutu needs more water now. outlined and budgeted in the Coun- keep up with Te Awamutu’s resolved 12 months earlier, but at At the Service Delivery Com- cil’s 2015-25 10-Year