The Star: August 23, 2018

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Opinion
•If you want to ask Ms Dalziel a
question, email mayor@ccc.govt.nz. Put
Reader’s Question in the subject line
I WAS walking through town
the other day and a couple of
workmen saw me approaching.
“Here comes the mayor,” one
said. “You’d better be working
hard,” I replied with a smile.
“We’re helping fix your city,”
they said, so I stopped and
thanked them.
“So what are you doing about
the chlorine in our water then,”
was their question. I explained
we would have been ordered
to chlorinate the water if we
hadn’t agreed to do so, and
at that point, we would have
lost control of all the decisionmaking
from then on. But
what are we doing and what
about the water bottling plant
at Belfast – what does that have
to do with it?
It’s interesting how little
fact filters through social
media channels these days. I
explained that the city council
Mayor
Lianne Dalziel
The straight shooters
is putting chlorine in at the
pump stations, so for the
pumps where all the well-heads
are above ground, or able to be
isolated, no chlorine is going
into the water supply at all. We
are also planning to put UV
treatment into the mix which
will help.
We then talked about the
water bottling plant at Belfast.
I explained it is Environment
Canterbury that controls resource
consents for water take,
and in this particular case, an
existing resource consent had
been included when the property
was bought.
It was great to get direct feedback
and to bust some myths
at the same time. I thanked
them for stopping me. You
don’t often get to explain what’s
really going on when the news
media only allow for a 10sec
sound-bite.
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