the surfees are arguing about what the brown sludge they are swimming in is ....

As Spike Milligan once put it, are they actually swimming in the sea or just going through the motions?

so don't forget public meeting against the stadium in the town hall tonight (Sun)…

which makes the supposed need to pollute the Avon & Heathcote all the weirder

Joe, I think they're talking about peak overflows when mixed stormwater and sewage systems get hit by big rainfalls. Big pipe only works for the rest of the time.

Same as Auckland region, though at least we…

. . . we've 'solved' the problem, at great cost, by basically building a longer pipe.

Which is exactly what Chch has recently done, which makes the supposed need to pollute the Avon & Heathcote all the weirder.

Meanwhile, despite the longer pipe, the surfees are arguing about what the brown…

This month they're actually going to start to 'treat' the sewage by dumping some…

I haven't lived in NZ for over 5 years, so I am not that up to speed, but when I left all councils…

I see that the government couldn't stomach improving the drinking water standards (due to costs involved for rural communities). The same applies for the cost of improving wastewater.

Water and waste bills separate…

Did we suddenly time-warp to 1980?

Even further. I recall being in Chch in 1976, back when the garbage sacks were a weird sky blue. A worthy organisation, the name of which I haven't retained, was running newspaper ads opposing discharges into the municipal rivers with the great slogan"Our Grandfathers…

What kind of people are we (well not us ) that we allow things like this to happen? Did we suddenly time-warp to 1980?

Thanks David, for helping us oppose this.

did your Uncle wear?? them again?

I was also concerned to note that false teeth might be released into the river — which, in my opinion, is even more terrifying than ordinary sewage.

that reminds me of one of my pop's funny-but-true-as stories.

When he was abut 75ish he got on the home-brews with some mates…

I was also concerned to note that false teeth might be released into the river — which, in my opinion, is even more terrifying than ordinary sewage.

True story: my uncle once lost his false teeth while swimming at Takapuna beach. (He was drunk at the time.) Two wacky things…

Very true, perhaps suggest an amended consent that is tied directly to the budgeted completion date of the Major Sewer Upgrade in order to continue the incentive on completing such an important piece of work etc etc...
Having read this page I'd actually get them to only…

It did take me a while to articulate a response, given my original reaction was vowel-less.

Much like my response to the Auckland "supercity" report.

If passed, the bill will reduce your abililty to make submissions against projects you oppose, and make…

Thanks for drawing attention to the situation David.

Indeed. It did take me a while to articulate a response, given my original reaction was vowel-less.

It seems to me that a quarter-century time limit is liable to de-incentivize them from making haste on their fifteen-year plan.

Very true, perhaps suggest an amended consent that is tied directly to the budgeted completion date of the Major Sewer Upgrade in order to continue the incentive on completing…

I'll emend my objection to focus on the time…

If you want to use a time-constrained consent to force them to a completion date then I'd agree with…

I'd focus on that, rather than the 25year consent – they're just trying to get that as a technical buffer to let them do the work above I imagine. What you want to be encouraging is the speedy completion of…

They got biffed, hopefully you will also be successful.

And, welcome back David.

How particularly medieval of the Christchurch City Council.