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Water worry for Waipā onward to the settlement pond. That’s all been destroyed. We also lost between five and 10 metres of earth, weakening the reservoir bank. About 93 megalitres was held back by less than five metres of dirt.” The decision was made to drain the reservoir to decrease the risk of it bursting. Te Awamutu, Kihikihi and Pirongia uses nine to 15 megalitres of water a day. The Pirongia water supply was strengthened in late February with a new backup connection at the Frontier Rd reservoir, but overall system capacity is reduced and will struggle to meet peak summer demand. “Pirongia didn’t lose water at all during the event. The flow metre went up, the staff knew they had a breakage and isolated the valves. They didn’t lose water pressure and water could continue,” Pavlovich said. “Then they got onto the job of reconfiguring the network, bringing that water out of Frontier Rd into Pirongia. At that point in time, the only water going into Frontier Rd was through the bore. It was a phenomenal job from the staff.” The council is working to understand the extent of insurance coverage and the implications for repair, recovery and reinstatement of the damaged water treatment infrastructure. It is looking at current demand, future growth and risk scenarios, as well as legislative requirements and considering what it could mean for the long-term plan. The issue comes as the council prepares to hand over
“It’s scary how little of our infrastructure we’ve been able to find,” Waipā District Council water services manager Karl Pavlovich said. It is the first time a water treatment plant in the Waipā district has been taken offline due to a weather event. “The weir was a structure in the stream, which the water would back up behind and flow over. We would take water from behind that structure,” Pavlovich said. “The now bent out of shape pipe work would run under the bed and
The now bent, and formerly underground, pipe work at Mangauika Stream that fed from the demolished weir to the settlement pond. Photo: Jesse Wood
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Waipā’s water supply capacity will be an ongoing legacy of February’s storms. The district council faces what could be a three year juggling act in the wake of the loss of a major reservoir and says it’s imperative the community keep an eye on their water usage. The Te Tahi rural water reservoir, which suppled more than half the water to Pirongia, Te Awamutu and Kihikihi, was destroyed in the February storms.
Temporary measures are in place - water for Te Awamutu, Pirongia and Kihikihi is now mainly coming from Parallel Rd via Taylors Hill reservoir. But the amount available doesn’t match the amount used at peak times The Mangauika Stream fed the Te Tahi plant at the base of Mt Pirongia, in the Ōtorohanga district. The February deluge in the stream included debris and boulders – one the size of a small vehicle – which took out a weir, a ford, several bridges and damaged the reservoir banks.
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