Water right for Belfast waste plant

Press, 28 April 1981, Page 13

Water right for Belfast waste plant

A water right for the 36 million Belfast waste treament plant is likely to. be issued soon by the North Canterbury Catchment Board.

According ■to ’ the board’s chief engineer, Mr J. A. Macdonald, the 'water right should be issued now that the Christchurch Drainage Board had dropped an appeal against a condition in the right’--' 2

The Drainage Board had applied.for the right to discharge). effluent into the Wiimakarifi Rivpr, near the bridge.

, The Catchment Board was 1 concerned about the .effects the would have on that:area of the river, and

coastal seawaters near the rivermouth. Mr Macdonald said. ’

A problem had arisen about the faecal coliform limit, set bv the Catchment Board, in the effluent discharge. The board set down the conditions so that the water quality, after discharge, would meet its requirements. - The water classification of the Waimakariri River requires that it meet a basic quality standard, after discharge. but the . nearby coastal waters had to meet a bathing standard. . ■ . . Bv dropping the appeal the Drainage Board must have felt that it could meet those ■Standards, Mr. Macdonald said.