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Wednesday 21 June 2017
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No dam “dire” for district
Urban water will be critical for new subdivisions like this one at Hart Rise on Paton Rd. Photo: Steve Page.
Simon Bloomberg Reporter
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Richmond, Brightwater, Redwood Valley and Mapua will be “pushed into Third World conditions” and many of the region’s businesses will be forced to shutdown during dry summers if the wheelchairs mobility scooters walkers/canes electric bed/hoists lift assist chairs bathroom solutions incontinence products daily living aids/products
proposed Waimea Community Dam doesn’t go ahead. The Tasman District Council supplies up to 17,500 cubic metres of water a day to urban users around the Waimea Plains but under new rules that will be cut by up to 80 percent if the dam project doesn’t proceed. And council’s engineering manager Richard Kirby says
that will have “dire consequences” for urban users with step five rationing limiting households to just 80 litres of water per person a day. “That basically means enough water for sanitation, drinking and food preparation and one or two showers and toilet flushes a day – that’s it. Houses will be pushed
into Third World conditions. “A toilet flush is around nine litres. Nine or 10 flushes and all the water is gone. “There’s also good chance that we’d have to shut off supply to Nelson Pine Industries and Alliance Freezing Works and any businesses that are big water users. Even at step three rationing,
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you won’t be able to wash cars, water gardens or even do laundry more than once a week.” Council activity planning manager Dwayne Fletcher says flow records for the Waimea River suggest that step three rationing, with a 25 percent cut in water
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