Media Release: Waikato District Council, 13 September 2013
Waikato District Council is reassuring Raglan residents that its wastewater treatment plant is more than capable of handling current, and future, wastewater activity.
At September’s Raglan Community Board meeting, committee members raised a concern of an increasing community perception regarding the plant’s ability to cope with increased activity particularly from development in the area and Whaanga Coast joining the network.
Waikato District Council General Manager Service Delivery, Tim Harty says Council appreciates and understands the concerns expressed by the community however the overflow was not a capacity issue.
“The Raglan wastewater treatment plant is more than capable of handling an increase in wastewater and currently daily flows through the treatment plant are around half of the maximum capacity allowed.”
“The plant is designed to cope with busy periods and future growth in the community while maintaining compliance with the conditions of the consent.”
An independent review released earlier this month into the June overflow showed a number of factors contributed to the overflow including the failure of the discharge pumps to start operating and a lack of alarms in the event of a pump failure.