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- Christchurch City Council Newsline: 17th May 2022
Christchurch City Council is responding to calls from residents living close to the fire-damaged wastewater treatment plant for help to deal with the impacts of the stench
- Canterbury farmers and growers are being urged to make use of a subsidised programme to return their unwanted or expired agrichemicals.
Agrecovery will be running several chemical recovery events in the Canterbury region throughout June 2022
- Christchurch City Council Newsline: 11th May 2022
Southern Demolition and Salvage Ltd will begin the task tomorrow of removing the rotting material from the fire-damaged trickling filters at the Christchurch Wastewater Treatment Plant
- Christchurch City Council Newsline: 9th May 2022
Improvements are in the pipeline for the way treated wastewater is managed at the Banks Peninsula settlement of Duvauchelle.
The treated wastewater is currently discharged to Akaroa Harbour
- Christchurch City Council Newsline: 4th May 2022
Christchurch residents can help clean up the city’s waterways on Saturday simply by picking up five pieces of rubbish while doing their usual weekend activities
- Christchurch City Council Newsline: 3rd May 2022
Independent testing to better understand the odours from around the fire-damaged Christchurch Wastewater Treatment Plant shows the stench is largely due to sulphurous gases
- Christchurch City Council Newsline: 28th April 2022
Christchurch City Council has agreed in principle that it will relocate the organics processing plant in Bromley to an alternative location
- Christchurch City Council Newsline: 6th April 2022
Eight new aerators have been turned on at the fire-damaged Christchurch Wastewater Treatment Plant as the Council’s mid-term recovery plan to address one of the two sources of unpleasant odours reaches it
- Christchurch City Council Newsline: 31st March 2022
A multi-million dollar upgrade of the plant where recyclable items collected through Christchurch’s kerbside collection are sorted and readied for sale is about to get under way
- Waimakariri District Council media release: 30th March 2022
Community spread of COVID-19 means short-notice changes to Transfer Stations should be expected in the next week or two
Solid Waste Asset Manager Kitty Waghorn says “Today we have enough staff to
- Christchurch City Council Newsline: 15th February 2022
Aeration components from around the world are arriving at the Christchurch Wastewater Treatment Plant, as the Christchurch City Council starts implementing its medium-term plan to minimise odours from
- Christchurch City Council Newsline: 8th February 2022
Christchurch residents can help stop single-use face masks from becoming a litter problem by taking used masks home with them and putting them in the red wheelie bin
- Batteries cannot be placed into any of your kerbside or wheelie bins. They can cause bin and truck fires. Truck fires result in the whole load being sent to landfill - rather than getting recycled
- Ministry for the Environment media release: 2nd February 2022
New Zealand has joined other countries in stating support for coordinated global action to combat marine plastic pollution through a new global agreement
- Christchurch City Council Newsline: 15th December 2021
If the very thought of the post-Christmas clean-up has you breaking out in a sweat, we’ve got some handy tips to help make the job easier
- Christchurch City Council Newsline: 4th November 2021
Christchurch City Council is working to install a sprinkler system over the smouldering trickling filters at the fire-damaged wastewater treatment plant to help extinguish hot spots and reduce the smel
- Christchurch City Council Newsline: 18th October 2021
Christchurch City Council Resource Recovery Manager Ross Trotter lifts the lid on what happens with the stuff that you put in your red, green and yellow wheelie bins
- Christchurch City Council Newsline: 14th September 2021
Remediation of a former landfill site in Bexley is underway and plans to remediate another four at Le Bons Bay, Onuku, Barrys Bay and the Burwood Resource Recovery Park are being developed
- Selwyn District Council media release: 10th August 2021
Construction has begun on a new wastewater pipeline connecting Darfield and Kirwee to the Pines Wastewater Treatment Plant
- Christchurch City Council Newsline: 26th July 2021
The paddocks between Cuthberts Road and the oxidation ponds in Bromley are gradually being transformed by the addition of thousands of native trees and plants
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