Pegasus Post: December 26, 2017

COMMUNITY NEWS Tuesday December 26 2017 5
Trust ‘couldn’t believe’ Christmas generosity
FESTIVE: June Wilson (left), trust co-ordinator Betty Chapman
and trust patron Margaret Austin enjoying the Christmas party.
• By Emily O’Connell
CHICKEN, HAM, eggs, salad,
crackers and make-up samples
were among the items donated
to a community trust’s annual
Christmas party on Wednesday.
Wainoni Avonside Community
Services Trust co-ordinator Betty
Chapman said she “couldn’t believe
how generous people were.”
The party was attended by 70
people from 12 different groups
run by the trust throughout the
year.
Mrs Chapman said she has
never received so much support.
“People have come out of the
woodwork, and you should see
this bench – it’s full of food,” she
said.
Mrs Chapman said the party,
which took two weeks to plan,
was about spreading joy.
“Companionship and being
happy . . . it sounds simple but it’s
true, that’s what’s important.”
Mrs Chapman said the trust
was able to use some of the left
CELEBRATION: The Wainoni Avonside Community Services
Trust was overwhelmed with the support it received for its
Christmas party last week.
PHOTOS: LEE HAWKEY
over food for the volunteers’
Christmas party the following
day.
She some of the volunteers are
in their 80s and still help out
every day.
“One lady here now, she’s been
with me for 16 years. She remembers
how people have their cups
of tea . . . that’s so important for
elderly,” Mrs Chapman said.
She thanked Bush Road and
Peter Timbs Meats for their generous
food donations.
Secrecy over skate park sites
Tim Lindley
•From page 1
The need for a skate facility in
the Sumner/Redcliffs area was
first recognised by the city council
as far back as 2000.
In November 2009, a concept
plan for a bike and skate
area in Barnett Park,
Redcliffs met with strong
opposition from some of
the community.
The Hagley-Ferrymead
Community Board
visited 15 potential sites
within the park, before
asking for further community
consultation on the plan.
The September 2010 and February
2011 earthquakes halted the
project due to no further funding
being available.
In October, 2014, clothing
giant Levi’s approached the city
council, offering to put $180,000
towards constructing a skate park
in Christchurch.
Sumner was confirmed as a
good place, but 10 months later,
the company had retracted its offer,
saying it was taking too long
to gain resource consent.
In February this year a temporary
skate ramp at 36 Wakefield
Ave was shut down when it failed
to comply with the city plan’s
noise standards.
But last week resource
consent was granted for
the ramp to be installed at
26 Nayland St.
Sumner Skate and Green
spokeswoman Kimberley
Mossman said a group of
volunteers would get it up
and running by February.
As a condition of the consent, it
must be locked outside the hours
of 7am to 9pm.
Consultation on the shortlist of
sites for a permanent skate park
will be from January 29 to February
26.
A Community workshop is
planned for February 12.
The Linwood-Central-Heathcote
Community Board will
make a decision on a permanent
skate park site in April/May.
Pipeline construction to begin soon
CONSTRUCTION OF two
submarine pipelines to carry
wastewater from Governors
Bay and Diamond Harbour to
Lyttelton will begin in February.
The 5km and 1.8km pipelines
are part of a $53 million scheme
that will end the discharge of
treated wastewater into Lyttelton
Harbour by 2021.
Currently, wastewater from
Lyttelton, Governors Bay and
Diamond Harbour is treated
before being discharged through
outfall pipelines into the harbour.
Under the new scheme
untreated wastewater from
Governors Bay and Diamond
Harbour will be carried through
the submarine pipelines to a new
pump station on Simeon Quay
in Lyttelton.
It will then be piped through
the Lyttelton Tunnel to the
Ferrymead pump station and
onto the Bromley wastewater
treatment plant, where it will
be treated. From there it will be
discharged out to sea through
the Christchurch Ocean Outfall.
City council service general
manager David Adamson said
the pipelines will be buried
about 1m deep into the seabed,
which is sufficiently deep to
prevent anchors catching or the
pipes being damaged in storms,
tsunamis or earthquakes.
“Construction of the marine
pipelines will involve pre-fabrication
of pipe strings onshore
before they are joined together
and bottom-pulled out to the
required location. A backhoe
dredger will then be employed
MOVING ON:
Wastewater
discharges
into Lyttelton
Harbour will
be a thing of
the past by
2021.
to excavate the trench, lower
the pipeline and backfill it,’’ Mr
Adamson said.
Contractors McConnell
Dowell have built several marine
outfall pipes, including the
Christchurch Ocean Outfall
eight years ago.
On-site work being done by
NZTA installing the wastewater
line through the Lyttelton Tunnel
was recently delayed with
problems manufacturing the
overseas-made pipe.
But this will not affect the
construction of the harbour
pipelines, which are expected to
be completed by early 2019.
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