Western News: February 19, 2019

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Tuesday February 19 2019
News
Dangerous intersection
to get upgrade
Helen
Broughton
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Ilam and Upper Riccarton
Residents’ Association Sue
Chamberlain said it is “crazy”
vehicles will not be able to travel
from Middleton Rd to Ilam Rd or
turn right.
She said there should be
green arrows for vehicles
looking to turn right onto
Riccarton Rd.
“They should have a
green arrow on those
corners which will fix the
problem just nicely without
having to do anything
else”.
But Elite Physiotherapy,
which is located near
the intersection, owner
Michelle North said it is an “extremely
dangerous” intersection
and while the changes will be
inconvenient for the business, it
will be better in the end.
Receptionist Rita Noetzel said
she will “cross her fingers” when
she turns right from Ilam Rd onto
Riccarton Rd.
“At first I thought: ‘Oh my gosh
am I doing something illegal but
it is a right turn lane . . .’ it is just a
really tricky one because there is
no kind of turning lane,” she said.
Her views were backed by
Central Riccarton Residents’ Association
chairwoman Joscelyne
Silcock, who said she dreads driving
out of Middleton Rd to turn
right onto Riccarton Rd.
But Halswell-Hornby-Riccarton
Community Board deputy
chairwoman Helen Broughton
said she was concerned
there might be an
“overload” of projects on
Riccarton Rd.
She said there is an
argument the project
would need to be done
in conjunction with the
NorWest Arc Major
Cycle Route.
The major Riccarton
Rd roadworks are due
to begin this month
and the city council is currently
out for public consultation on
the South Express Major Cycle
Route – which will run through
Riccarton.
The intersection upgrades will
enable it to have facilities for
the cycleway including crossing
signals.
•Public consultation will
run until March 11. For more
information on the changes
and to make a submission go
to www.ccc.govt.nz and click
on the have your say page.
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Help rid our water of chlorine
CONSERVE: The city council is asking people to only water
their gardens on alternate days between 9pm and 7am, when
it’s cooler.
WITH FEBRUARY traditionally
the hottest month of the year,
the city council is reminding
residents to keep doing their bit
to save water so it can work to
remove chlorine from the city’s
water supply as soon as possible.
The council is aiming for
the city’s drinking water to be
un-chlorinated by May, which
will mark 12 months since it
rolled out chlorine treatment
in response to advice from the
Canterbury medical officer of
health.
City council water supply
improvement programme
manager Helen Beaumont said
achieving the target depends
partly on people continuing to
use less water so wells can be
taken offline and upgraded as
needed.
“We’re definitely not out of the
woods yet, and we really need
people to keep watching their
water use so we can upgrade our
wells and continue to cut back
the chlorine across the city,” Ms
Beaumont said.
“We’re experiencing much
hotter days now, with less rain
in between, so the temptation
is to leave the garden sprinklers
on for longer or to turn them on
more often.
“We have no issue with people
watering their lawns or gardens,
but we do ask they use a handheld
hose or watering can, which
avoids any waste, and only water
on alternate days between 9pm
and 7am, when it’s cooler.”
Sprinklers and garden
irrigators are the biggest users of
household water, but there are
plenty of other ways people can
help save, said Ms Beaumont.
“Taking shorter showers,
doing one less laundry load
a week, and sweeping your
driveway instead of hosing it
are all ways people can help
save water. It may not seem like
much, but a lot of people doing a
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little really adds up.”
By May the city council
expects to have completed
temporary upgrades on 19
below-ground wells and to
have raised another 41 above
ground, bringing the total
number of secure wells to 98 out
of 140.
“If we can upgrade those wells
as planned, we should have
enough un-chlorinated water to
supply the city over the winter
months, when we use about 50
per cent less water than we do
over summer.”
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