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Risk over dry stream plan By Gabrielle Stuart and Andrew King A POTENTIAL solution to drying streams in the north-west has been found, but it comes with a risk: The flow-on effects could dry other streams. Both the Waimairi and Wai-iti streams have dried out and, in March, more than 40 residents signed a petition asking the city council to do something about it. Several options for feeding the streams were put forward in a report put to the Fendalton-
Waimairi Community Board yesterday, which included creating a new bore or diverting water from existing ones. The cost of a new bore was estimated a between $250,000 and $350,000, and diverting water from an existing bore in Burnside Park has been estimated to cost $125,000. But the report also warned the potential solution could come at a cost. “Augmentation of one stream may have negative effects on other streams, by diverting shallow groundwater which would
otherwise go to another stream,” the report said. Community board deputy chairman David Cartwright was concerned the board did not have enough information about the potential effects of the bores. “I’m certainly wanting to maintain streams as they are part of Christchurch’s heritage, but not if it is at the detriment of the greater Christchurch ecology or aquifers,” he said. He wanted to see more information about the flow-on effects, how the water levels would be
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monitored and if a new bore could be shut off, before a final decision was made. He was also concerned about the wider problem of dropping aquifer levels, and whether more streams would dry in the future. Money spent on the bores could reduce the budget for other water programmes supporting the greater aquifer system. Climate change, a drier than average winter and more urbanisation preventing water seeping back into the ground are the main reasons there have been
low water levels, according to the report. Fendalton resident Kristina Pickford, who has the Wai-iti Stream running through her property, agreed longer-term solutions to the low aquifer levels needed to be prioritised. •HAVE YOUR SAY: Should the city council spend up to $350,000 diverting water to replenish the north-west streams? Share your views with us. Email andrew.king@ starmedia.kiwi
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