Gisborne District Council Operation Maintenance of Services for Water, Wastewater and Stormwater Services

Keeping GDC’s water safe

PROJECT: Gisborne District Council Operation & Maintenance of Services for Water, Wastewater and Stormwater Services CONTRACTOR: Fulton Hogan CLIENT: Gisborne District Council VALUE: $4.3m

Gisborne District Council’s Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, and Land, Rivers and Coastal systems network services 35,000 water users in Gisborne and has two water treatment plants and one wastewater treatment plant; 1680kms of pipe network; 50 pump stations; 42,229 service connections; 1531 hydrants; 2948 manholes; 300km open drains/streams/creeks; and 54 in-drain structures.

Fulton Hogan has held the Operation and Maintenance of Services contract for this network since 1998, with a seven-year extension until October 2026, awarded in recognition of excellent performance. If ever a contract disproved the saying ‘familiarity breeds contempt’ it is this.

Over the years the relationship has got ever closer and inter-operable, evidenced, in part, by Fulton Hogan assuming the DCC’s Land, Rivers and Coast team into its team and sourcing wastewater treatment plant operators for the GDC – and in various technological and service initiatives.

Fulton Hogan operates and maintains the reticulation system, renewals and

Fulton Hogan team winning at CCNZ Hawkes Bay East Coast Awards, November 2021. Left to right: Hayden Houthuijzen, Alan Ledger, Adrian van Zyl, Tane Tamanui

6103CONSTRUCTION EXCELLENCE AWARDS 2022 CCNZ / HIREPOOL capital projects; ensuring compliance with resource consents and with the NZDWS. General services include: responding to callouts, customer service requests and SCADA alarms; asset and network performance monitoring; asset condition reporting; taking and reporting water meter readings; and backflow preventer testing with an approved IQP. Subcontractors provide specialist services such as electrical, SCADA, pest control and odour cartridge supply and recycling.