Bay Harbour: December 02, 2020

Wednesday December 2 2020
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BAY HARBOUR
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Water safety plan called a milestone
THE CITY council’s Akaroa
and Takamatua Water Safety
Plan has been approved by the
drinking water assessor on
behalf of the Ministry of Health.
The plan is one of seven the
council is responsible for, under
the Health Act, that need to be
updated and submitted to the
drinking water assessor every
five years.
To date,
only the city
council and
Hurunui District
Council
have had water
safety plans
approved
Pauline
Cotter
under the
Government’s
Drinking
Water Safety Plan Framework,
which was introduced in 2018
following the Havelock North
Drinking Water Inquiry.
Chairwoman of the council’s
three waters, infrastructure and
environment committee Pauline
Cotter said it represents a huge
milestone.
“This is Christchurch City
Council’s first water safety plan
approved under the Government’s
new risk assessment
criteria,” she said.
“Staff should be congratulated
on a major achievement for
the Akaroa and Takamatua
water supply, and the residents
of those towns can be extra
confident their drinking-water
supply network is safe and
secure.”
The Akaroa and Takamatua
shared water supply network
draws its drinking water
from four streams and two
wells before being filtered and
chlorinated at a local treatment
plant which was constructed in
2015.
The city council is currently
working to resubmit its
Christchurch and Lyttelton
Water Safety Plan before the
end of this year to demonstrate
it is supplying safe and secure
drinking water for residents.
General manager city services
David Adamson said having the
first water safety plan across the
line will benefit the process for
the others.
“Having the approval of
the drinking water assessor
means we’re now in a better
position to fully understand the
expectations and to apply what
we’ve learned to our other water
SUPPLY:
The Akaroa
and
Takamatua
shared
water supply
network
draws its
drinking
water from
four streams
and two
wells before
being
filtered and
chlorinated
at a local
treatment
plant.
safety plans,” he said.
“We have confirmation that
the way we assess and manage
public health risks to our water
supply networks, under the new
framework, is robust and valid.
We can now take this model and
apply it to our other water safety
plans, which will benefit the
approval process as we need to
resubmit those plans.”
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