Pegasus Post: January 22, 2019

More documents

Recommendations

Info

6 Tuesday January 22 2019 Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi PEGASUS POST Your Local Views Facebook a tool for police Gary Knight responds to an article on speeding in New Brighton. GIVEN THE volume of speeding tickets issued in and around the eastern suburbs in the pre-Christmas period, the instigation of checkpoints was a pro-active step. Their continuation to help combat such offences as driving while using a cell phone, not wearing a seat belt and drink driving is commendable. However, additional factors just as detrimental to road safety include driving while applying cosmetics, lighting and extinguishing cigarettes, selecting music, unfoiling takeaway foods, paperwork entries and child chastisement. Within this context, these instances when encountered should attract similar instant fines and demerit points to create an overall balance in the interests of road safety awareness. New Brighton Bin Inn owner Nikki Griffin says the community can become better connected with the police through social media IF YOU look at posts on community Facebook pages over the holiday season, you see post after post about break-ins, vandalism, thefts, burglaries, video footage of late night wanders and cars being stolen. These posts are normally backed by photos, asking for the names of the offenders. It would seem that Facebook pages have become the new police. We are now more aware of crimes due to these posts and they are not just limited to communities on the city’s east side. This is happening all over the city. Often these posts start out with negative comments that are turned into an active discussion, with some good outcomes for our community in terms of wanting to work together and with the police to lower crime. Over the Christmas period, I have noticed more police walking the beat and being met with a positive response by people in the New Brighton business area. It is great to see people stopping to have a chat with the police. There seems to be a lot of frustration around the opening hours of the local station for many in the community. I believe a few simple things could create a better connection between the public and police, including updates on staff changes through our own local police Facebook page. The page could also be used to inform locals about the areas with an increase in petty crime and what people need to do to keep themselves safe. COMMUNICATE: Nikki Griffin say the New Brighton police could use a local Facebook page to let the community know what’s going on in the area. With so many people now using social media as their main form of getting information, is this an opportunity for police and communities to become better connected and work together for the benefit of all? •HAVE YOUR SAY: Do you think New Brighton could benefit from a local police Facebook page? Email your views to matt.slaughter@ starmedia.kiwi JOIN US NOW! See website for details LAZEEZA JEWELLERS Selected Sterling Silver Studs & Toe Rings $7.50 (while stocks last). BENDON OUTLET Amazing $15 Bra Sale (selected styles, terms & conditions apply). STYLES MAY DIFFER TO IMAGE SHOWN ASICS BACK TO SCHOOL DEALS All Kids Clothing 50% Off RRP. Free Shoe Bag When You Spend $80 on Kids’ Product. TIMBERLAND Buy 1 Get 10% Off, Buy 2 Get 20% Off, Buy 3 Get 30% Off, Storewide (excludes socks & shoe care). TAROCASH Selected Shirts $19.99 Each or 2 for $35, Selected Polo’s $19.99 Each or 3 for $50. Sign up to Smart Deals & be in the monthly draw for a $100 Dress-Smart gift card! Be one of the first to hear about the latest deals, sent straight to your inbox each week! CHRISTCHURCH 409 Main South Road, Hornby www.dress-smart.co.nz Open 10am-5pm, 7 Days 03 349 5750
PEGASUS POST Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi Tuesday January 22 2019 7 News Local News Now What it takes to remove the chlorine Fire rages, homes at risk With the clock ticking on the city council’s self-imposed deadline to end temporary chlorination of the water supply within 12 months, water supply improvement programme manager Helen Beaumont gives an update on how the work is tracking IT HAS been a year since the city council voted to temporarily add chlorine to the drinking water supply in response to advice from the Canterbury Medical Officer of Health. Over the past few months we have made significant progress on upgrading the wells that supply our water so that we can get back to having an unchlorinated water supply. To date we have upgraded 25 per cent of our wells – by volume of water produced – to bring them up to a standard that exceeds the present requirements. We’ve set the bar higher than required because we anticipate that more stringent standards will be introduced by the Government shortly. Upgrading each well takes between two and six weeks and we can only work on a limited number of wells at any one time because we still to need supply water to homes and businesses. We have been running a water conservation campaign asking people to use less water so we can continue work on the wells and we really appreciate the efforts people have been making. Our data shows average water use to date is well below the summer averages for the past two years. If that keeps up we should be able to continue with the well remediation work as planned. By May we expect to have completed interim upgrades on 19 below-ground wells and raised another 41 wells above ground, bringing the total number of secure wells to 98. Those wells collectively provide more than 60 per cent of the city’s water supply. If we upgrade those wells as planned, we should have a sufficient volume of unchlorinated water to supply the city over the winter months when we use about 50 per cent less water than we do in the summer. However, even after doing this work, providing chlorine-free water to everyone in every part of the city remains a challenge. The water supply is delivered through nine discrete zones. The central zone is our biggest water zone and supplies water to 42 per cent of the population. It is the oldest part of the city and where we have the most wells that need to be raised above ground. There is high demand for water relative to the available capacity in this zone and, therefore, very little excess capacity. This makes it difficult to do the necessary upgrades. To address the challenge in the central zone, in addition to the interim upgrades on below-ground wells, we are also working to install ultra violet treatment at the main pump station. The main pump station is the biggest supplier of water to the central zone, and we are working with the contractor on ways that the installation can be sped up so water can be treated with UV instead of chlorine at this site. We are also looking at whether we can transfer water across zone boundaries. There are technical challenges because of the different pressure levels in some of the zones. However, it may be possible for us to use some of the pump stations on the boundaries of the central zone to push untreated water into that area. In addition, we are investigating whether we can make use of two private wells on the Metro Sports Facility site. They tap into deep aquifers and were originally drilled for a ground-source heat pump that is no longer required. They may be suitable to supply potable water to homes and businesses in the central zone. We are confident that seven of the nine city supply zones will be chlorine free by May this year. It is likely that we will have sufficient water from secure wells in the Ferrymead zone, and we are doing further modelling of water supply options and looking at opportunities to fast track works in the central zone. In the meantime, we are also looking at how we can reduce the amount of chlorine in the water. At the pump stations where the chlorine has two minutes to react with the water and disinfect it before it reaches the first consumer we have been able to halve the dose of chlorine. We are now looking at whether we can re-route the water at some of the other pump stations so we can give the chlorine a longer time to do its job before it reaches the first consumer. For example, if we can send the water around the block before it reaches people’s homes, there may be other pump stations where we can also reduce the dose. Each pump station has between one and six wells supplying it. Where some wells are remediated and some are not, we have to chlorinate all of the water unless we can isolate the wells that haven’t been remediated. We can only do that when the demand for water is low. When there are periods of low demand we aim to only use pump stations without chlorine. It is only when absolutely necessary, as water demand rises, that we bring the chlorinated pump stations into service. We all want the chlorine out of our water and we are working hard to ensure we can have an unchlorinated water supply as soon as possible. PRECIOUS: Limit the time you operate your garden hose. Read more about Lucy’s story at www.hagley.school.nz Learn YOUR way at Hagley in Yr 12 & 13 Take the next step with one of Hagley’s tertiary pathway programmes or specialist courses. From Sports and Recreation to Cuisine, Fashion, Pre-Health and Animation, Hagley has a range of courses designed to pathway you to tertiary study or help you gain real skills for work. Visit our website today for more information on your study options for 2019! Senior College Enrolment Day Jan 29, 9.30-2.30pm & 5pm-6.30pm (03) 379 3090 www.hagley.school.nz
Page 1 and 2: TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 2019 Connectin
Page 3 and 4: PEGASUS POST Latest Christchurch ne
Page 5: PEGASUS POST Latest Christchurch ne
Page 21 and 22: PEGASUS 2 [Edition POST datE] Lates

Pegasus Post: January 22, 2019

Create successful ePaper yourself

Delete template?

Save as template?