Selwyn Times: July 26, 2016

SELWYN TIMES Tuesday July 26 2016 9
Your Local Views
Readers respond to last
week’s article on $12
million that has been
put into cleaning up Te
Waihora/Lake Ellesmere.
Phillip Marcs, of Prebbleton –
The money for cleaning the lake
is not nearly enough. I haven’t
lived in Selwyn for very long,
only several years, and I am told
that it was once a beautiful place
that was clean and full of life.
The lake is one of the biggest
in New Zealand, $12 million is
clearly not going to be enough
to get it back to what it once
was. I would love to take my
family there and be able to use
it for recreational use. It needs a
serious look at and for someone
to actually make the health of the
lake a priority.
It’s a real shame to see
something that like this go to
waste. How much beneficial work
can be done over decades? Will
it even be noticeable? It needs a
serious cash injection and proper
work needs to be done quicker
than ‘decades’.
I don’t want to see it deteriorate
further and become worse.
Things need to change.
K Partridge, of Leeston – Yes,
clean up Lake Ellesmere.
This lake can be so beautiful
to look at some days but the fact
it is so unhealthy is common
knowledge.
With a clean-up the lake could
look and be so healthy and a
great place to enjoy. I sometimes
go there, not to get in the water,
but just to enjoy the sight and
scenery and I think it is such a
shame more people don’t use it.
I think $12 million is the right
start but how long will it take to
make it like it was?
They say decades and that’s a
really long time. The place needs
to be fixed now.
Readers respond to last
week’s article on a pig farm
operation that has upset
neighbours
Rose Daniels, of West
Melton – I feel for the people
living near that pig farm. I
certainly wouldn’t want one to
move in near me either.
The smell must be horrible and
I can’t imagine what the dust
must be like. The other people
who were living there first didn’t
buy their land or house expecting
a pig farm to go in near them
with no warning. It’s just rude.
I’m glad the district council
seem to actually be doing
something about this problem
and making them remove the
pigs.
It will be interesting to see if
they listen to them. Good on the
homeowners for speaking up and
not letting it continue.
Isaac Andrews, of Rolleston
– I can’t imagine what living next
to a pig farm must be like.
I understand the need for
them but to set one up without
letting the people near by know
what’s going on is not good
enough.
Setting up an operation like
this leads to a whole load of
problems. The noise, dust and
mainly the smell. I certainly
would complain too if I lived
near it.
How back and forth from the
district council though. They get
complaints from the neighbours
about it make the farm owners
get an abatement notice and
apply for consent then grant
them the consent.
Where is the consistency?
Now they’re telling them they
have to get rid of the pigs. Must
be confusing for all the parties
involved.
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