Bay Harbour: June 14, 2017

Wednesday June 14 2017
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Akaroa clock to tick again
• By Caitlin Miles
THE ICONIC Akaroa Service
Centre clock will stay in storage
until the centre repairs are
completed next year.
Akaroa residents have been
wondering what happened to
the clock, which
prompted the
Banks Peninsula
Community
Board to ask
city council staff
where it was.
Andrew
Rutledge
Community
board
chairwoman
Christine Wilson said it was a
matter of “curiosity” that lead
them to ask the question.
City council head of parks
Andrew Rutledge said the clock
is in storage with a horologist – a
person who works on clocks.
That is where the clock will
stay until the city council
completes repairs on the service
centre – which is expected to be
finished in February next year.
The service centre was
damaged in the February
22, 2011, earthquake. The
clock was removed from the
centre following the quake for
conservation work and to check
all the internal mechanisms and
paint the exterior.
Community board member
Janis Haley said the clock has
been a part of the service centre
since she was a child.
“It is very iconic for the area,
ever since I was a kid it has been
there,” Ms Haley said.
It cost $8047 to carry out the
conservation work on the clock.
Repair work on the service
centre began in April last year
and was expected to be finished
by the start of this year, but has
been delayed
The building is now at 100
per cent of the new building
standard but remains closed
while internal fit outs and plans
are done.
Mr Rutledge said the interior
scope of the works had changed
and the city council needed to
consider all of the users and
stakeholders.
He said the process required
considerable consultation then a
REPAIRED:
The Akaroa
Service
Centre clock
has been
repaired
and is being
stored until
the centre
repairs
have been
completed.
redesign.
As a result, the completion
date was pushed out ​until next
year.
The first stage of the project
involved scaffolding the building
and making it weather tight,
then contractors began the
external repairs to the roof and
external painting..
The city council budgeted
$965,000 for the project. Mr
Rutledge said $907,000 has been
spent on the repairs so far.
Lyttelton sewer
project starts
next month
• By Caitlin Miles
WORK ON the $52.3 million
Lyttelton wastewater project will
begin next month.
The first phase of the city council
project will involve the installation
of the sewer pipe through
the Lyttelton Tunnel.
New Zealand Transport Agency,
which manages the tunnel, has
engaged McConnell Dowel to do
the work.
It will be carried out because
the resource consent that currently
allows for wastewater to be
discharged into Lyttelton Harbour
is going to expire, along with
the Governors Bay and Diamond
Harbour wastewater treatment
plants.
An Environment Court
decision meant the city council
needed to find a new way to treat
the wastewater.
The new plan involves buried
submarine pipelines from the
Governors Bay and Diamond
Harbour’s wastewater treatment
plants to a new pump station on
Simeon Quay by the Lyttelton
road tunnel portal and through to
Ferrymead and on to the Bromley
treatment plant.
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