Tauranga City Council is calling for residents to conserve water over the next few days as its water treatment plants come under pressure from storm sediment.
Council's water services manager Peter Bahrs says bad weather from Cyclone Gabrielle could seriously affect the city's water treatment plants.
'It's highly likely the rain the city experiences over the next few days will stir up sediment in local streams. This extra sediment makes treating the water a lot harder, and it's probable we'll need to shut down our treatment plants for a time,” he says
In the event of a shutdown Tauranga reservoirs hold enough drinkable water to last 24-48 hours.
'We appreciate your ongoing support in conserving water while we weather this storm together,” says Peter.
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3 comments
Yep
Posted on 13-02-2023 18:45 | By Andrew64
Let’s conserve water when we are inundated with record amounts of rain. Brain surgeons
Fair enough but
Posted on 14-02-2023 13:03 | By Kancho
No infrastructure could cope with this event so disruption expected and accepted. However it still beggars the point that we don't have enough water storage and water restrictions are constant and especially bad in normal summers. Meanwhile nice to have projects and commissioners whims get funding while essentials don't.
In an emergency
Posted on 19-02-2023 14:20 | By Kancho
We have they quote two days water supply so conserve water. Most summers we are in serious position yet we actually have plenty of water falling just not stored . So why isn't much more storage happening while they talk of huge expenditure on city precinct, museum , stadium all jammed into a small finger of land jutting out into the sea with restricted access? Seems essentials are not important to council
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