Loan approval for $1.3M waste pipeline

Press, 10 February 1983, Page 21

Loan approval for $1.3M waste pipeline

Loan approval has been given for a $1.3 million pipeline to discharge treated waste from Belfast meat industries into the Waimakariri River. The Local Authorities Loans Board had granted the Christchurch Drainage Board permission to raise the loan for a 30-year term, finance committee members have been told. The Loans Board has stipulated that an appropriate water right must be granted for effluent discharge. and that the Drainage Board make a legally binding agreement with the Canterbury Frozen Meat Company. Ltd. to ensure that all loan repayments are met by the company. A special order to raise the loan in terms of the Christchurch District Drainage Act. 1951. was the next step, the meeting heard. A decision on company water rfght applications is expected to be made by a special North Canterbury

Catchment Board Tribunal in May. The applications cover a long-term plan to improve waste treatment, and switch its discharge from the southern branch of the river through a Drainage Board pipeline to the main branch. The board's chief engineer. Mr H. P. Hunt, said after the meeting that costs to other users of the pipeline would be covered by subsidary agreements between C.F.M. and those users. The matter was still to be worked out. Loan money Stormwater flooding and drainage problems in the Gayhurst Road-Mcßratneys Road area will be considered further so that loan finance for the project can be sought. Mr Hunt told members that the original plan for a stormwater pipeline did not look promising for a loan application. An alternative solution would be to pump a reduced peak flow through a smaller and shallower pipeline to the

river at Dallington Terrace, excluding pumping east of Gayhurst Road, he said. the committee also recommended that staff continue looking for other suitable projects for loan finance. Riverbank work The board s 1983-84 budget should include $35,000 for riverbank protection work and $30,000 for riverbank improvements along Kerrs Reach, the committee recommended. A cost-sharing agreement had been made with the Christchurch City Council for the protection of riverbanks along the Heathcote River and Avon River. The board had given $15,000 in each of the previous two years. Improvements at Kerrs Reach had also been made on a cost-shared basis. Rockfilled mattresses were being I used for this work, and $30,000 had been given this financial year, Mr Hunt said.