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What shall we call it?
Time to name reserves.
Turning muck to money
Palmerston North City Council is looking to the community for ideas and
feedback on names for a number of reserves. These reserves have either never
been officially named or are recent acquisitions.
There are eight of them to be named in all and the council is looking forward to receiving people’s ideas.
Council is offering its suggestions but is open to other ideas. The preliminary Council suggests are:
RESERVE AS IT
IS CURRENTLY
CALLED LOCATION COUNCIL SUGGESTIONS
CAMBRIDGE STREET
RESERVE
FAIRACRES SQUARE
FEATHERSTON
STREET PIT
In Ashhurst between
Cambridge St and
Diamond Court
In Milson off Cong Ave
between Fairs Rd and
the Railway Line.
In Roslyn beside
Skogland Park and
Freyberg High School
off Featherston St
Cambridge Street Reserve – to reflect its current
name and location.
Fairacres Square – The Fair family used to
own the land and have been long standing
community members.
Edwards Quarry Reserve – Robert Edwards
bought the land in 1900 for a brickworks and
built the Hoffman Kiln.
Brick Quarry Reserve – to reflect the history of
the site as a source of clay for bricks.
The Palmerston North City Council
is demonstrating the truth of the
old saying that “where there’s muck
there’s brass” with its new biogas
plant near the city’s wastewater
treatment facility.
The recent commissioning of the plant near
the Awapuni wastewater treatment facility
means that together with the electricity
generated by its landfill gas-fired plant at the
nearby landfill, the city council now meets
three-quarters of its own electricity needs.
The landfill plant has a generating capacity
of one megawatt (MW), while the new biogas
facility is capable of generating 750 kilowatts
(kW) which together amounts to about
$800,000 worth of electricity each year.
Mayor Jono Naylor says the commissioning
of the biogas plant is an important step
towards the council’s goal of Palmerston North
becoming a sustainable city.
“To be 75 percent self-sufficient in electricity,
generated essentially from waste, is a
tremendous achievement and demonstrates the
benefits of the investments the city has made in
this area.”
The new plant consists of two digesters which
produce biogas from wastewater sludge, which
is then fed into a generator where it is converted
into electricity,
Water and Waste Services Manager Chris
Pepper says the city council has recently begun
using waste from other sources to produce
biogas from the digesters, such as material from
grease traps and sludge from a local Fonterra
plant.
“We levy a charge for taking delivery of this
waste material, and earn an income from the
electricity it is used to produce, so the city gets
a financial benefit in two ways from this facility,
quite apart from the huge environmental
benefit we get from not having to dispose of
this material to landfill.”
It is planned to use one digester to handle
wastewater sludge, and the other to process
waste from the outside sources.
The new biogas-fired generating plant has
taken 18 months to build, at a cost of about
$1.6m.
LINKLATER BLOCK,
In Kelvin Grove off
Tremaine Ave/Kelvin
Grove Rd
Linklater Reserve – To acknowledge the
extensive involvement of the Linklater family
in the local and regional communities across
several generations.
Gray Reserve – the Grays originally cleared the
land for farming and have strong family ties to
it.
The newly refurbished Vogel Street housing units
MCGREGOR STREET
RESERVE,
THE WOODPECKER
FOREST/K-LOOP
In Milson on the
intersection of
McGregor St and
Pinedale Parade
In Aokautere at the
end of Kahuterawa
Rd. (bounded by the
Sledge Track and the
Back Track).
Runway Reserve – to reflect the close proximity
of the Airport.
McGregor Reserve – to reflect its location on
McGregor Street (named after Squadron Leader
and Union Airways employee M.C. McGregor.
Kahuterawa Forest Park – to link with the
Kahuterawa Stream, road and current references
to the area as the K-Loop for mountain bikers.
Arapuki Forest Park – meaning “pathway in the
hills” to reflect the many recreational uses of the
area.
SCHNELL WETLAND
RESERVE EXTENSION
In Kelvin Grove –
connecting Schnell
Wetland Reserve (off
Schnell Dr) to James
Line and Galea Grove.
Pupurangi Forest Park – using name for the rare
native snail found in the area.
Schnell Wetland Reserve as it is an extension of
an existing reserve and should have the same
name to avoid confusion
TITOKI RESERVE
EXTENSION
In Aokautere off
Cashmere Dr
connecting to Titoki
Reserve
There will be display and suggestions boxes in
the Central Library in July.
Suggestions can be emailed to
aaron.phillips@pncc.govt.nz
or phoned in to Council on 3568199.
Titoki Reserve as it is an extension of an existing
reserve and should have the same name to
avoid confusion
All Vogel Street
units now upgraded
Tenants in all eight of the Palmerston
North City Council’s housing
units at 175 Vogel Street are now
enjoying much-improved living
standards with the completion of a
major refurbishment project at the
properties.
The units were originally built in the late
1960s, and were somewhat the worse for wear
when work began on the upgrade in September
of last year.
The refurbishment of the first four units was
completed in December 2009, which meant
those tenants could move back home in time for
Christmas.
The remaining four units have just been
completed and were re-occupied during the
first week in May.
The refurbishment includes new kitchens and
bathrooms, new insulation, carpets and drapes.
Senior Property Assets Officer Jocelyn Broderick
says the completed units are fresh, modern,
warm and are a nice place to live.