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NAPIER 27 May 2020
The proposed new bore site in Meeanee.
Word from our Mayor Kirsten Wise Kia ora koutou. Water is essential for life, and in Napier the state of our drinking water has presented challenges for us as a Council, and for many of you. We made the commitment to focus on water as our top priority, and it is pleasing to see work begin on one of the major projects to fix this issue. Dirty water issues have been linked to water with higher manganese levels, and the site of a new water bore project in Meeanee is showing promise as a new low manganese level water source. You can read more about this project in this edition. It is a part of the Water Supply Master Plan, which sets the strategy for the city’s drinking water network for the next 30 years. The Chlorine-Free Drinking Water Review is also about to get underway. The consultants contracted to Council to carry out this review will investigate the options to go chlorine free in the future, and will present these to Council before moving ahead with a detailed investigation of our preferred option. We should know more in just a few months. Happening alongside this work is development of the draft Annual Plan
for 2020/21. Usually we would be well into this process, but it has had to be completely reviewed and assessed against the impact of COVID-19. We now have a confirmed launch date for consultation – 18 June – and I look forward to sharing more with you about it at that time. One positive to come out of our local pandemic response is We Are Team Napier. We have shown as a nation how we can work together and support each other through a crisis, and this is our homegrown – locally grown if you like – response to recognise, communicate, share, celebrate and support each other as a community. We Are Team Napier belongs to all of us, and I encourage you, if you haven’t yet done so, to seek out more information about it and use it as you see fit to celebrate and support the best of what Napier has to offer.