News and articles realted to the reticualtion of Wainui Beach for water and sewage

News archives relating to the Wainui Community from the Gisborne Herald and other sources:
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No quick fix for Wainui's erosion
Gisborne Herald, Monday, 21 July 2008 By Christine McCafferty

A review of the Wainui Beach Management Strategy is on the cards, amid growing concerns from council staff and beachfront residents that there is no quick fix to foreshore erosion. Earlier this year, high sea swells lashed Wainui Beach and caused significant eroding to several properties along Wairere Road. At one stage more than one metre of sand disappeared, exposing old gabion baskets, and a log and rail wall. >> MORE

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Wainui dune work earns another look
Saturday, 12 April 2008 By Marianne Gillingham

Wainui residents may yet be successful in obtaining some high-tech beachfront erosion protection work, but they will be on their own with the costs. Councillors at a meeting of the operations committee this week had mixed feelings over the effort, with a report clearly spelling out that people living within the coastal hazard zone did so at their own risk. >> MORE

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Controversial Wainui scheme is tossed out

Gisborne Herald, June 10, 2008
By Marianne Gillingham

The controversial Wainui, Okitu, Sponge Bay reticulation proposal was tossed out yesterday, in the face of the most cohesive protest action yet against Gisborne District Council. But while they will not be reticulated, Wainui and Okitu residents' septic tanks will be closely monitored to ensure they comply with environmental health standards. Where this leaves the new Sponge Bay subdivision has yet to be ascertained, with sections there believed to be below the size required for adequate septic tank drainage. >> MORE

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Wainui's reaction to Mayor's comments Wednesday, 7 May, 2008 By Marianne Gillingham

Wainui residents fear comments made by Mayor Meng Foon at a community consultation meeting in the city show the council has a pre-determined view on the Wainui reticulation project and that its consultation process is meaningless. >> MORE

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Wainui 'own worst enemy' in the reticulation debate
Tuesday, 6 May, 2008
By Marianne Gillingham

There was little sympathy shown for Wainui ratepayers at a community consultation meeting in the city last night. The general feeling seemed to be that the main water/sewerage scheme issue was cost, which Wainui residents had brought largely on to themselves by "dithering". >> MORE

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Increases becoming alarming Letter to the Editor: Wednesday, 7 May, 2008 By David Andrew

It is with some degree of concern, that I have followed recent items in the paper regarding the city sewage and wastewater proposals, and after talking with friends who attended the recent meeting in the Wainui School hall held with council regarding reticulation of their community, that concern has turned to alarm. Most Wainui residents are not rolling in money that enables them to pay out approximately $31,000 plus ongoing significant costs for maintenance on a system that most do not want. >> MORE

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More time to consult follows cost blowout
Gisborne Herald, Friday, 2 May, 2008
By Marianne Gillingham

GisborneDistrict Council has been forced to post urgent public notices about the effects its multimillion-dollar budget blowout has had on the annual plan consultation process. The consultation period has been extended by a week to take into account the new information and figures that have come out of technical investigations and pre-design work over the past few months. The consultation period will now extend until Friday, May 16. >> MORE

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Council faces barrage over soaring price
Tuesday, 29 April, 2008
By John Jones

Ratepayers will revolt if the District Council goes ahead with the wastewater upgrade at the present cost, the council was warned yesterday. The competence of the council's engineering staff was questioned at the first annual plan public consultation meeting since the true costs of the scheme were revealed last week. >> MORE

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Urgent workshop for worried councillors
Tuesday, 29 April, 2008
By Marianne Gillingham

Gisborne District councillors are having an urgent workshop this week in the wake of the $95 million bombshell dropped on them last Thursday for the cost of cleaning up the city's sewage discharge. Mayor Meng Foon said staff had gone back to the drawing board to look at funding options. >> MORE

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Council revisits Wainui scheme after backlash
Saturday, 26 April, 2008
By Marianne Gillingham

The public outcry over Wainui-Okitu reticulation plans has prompted Gisborne District Council to take another look at the options. Alan Davidson told a meeting of the council on Thursday the project should be abandoned altogether while the council concentrated on the other major project before it. >> MORE

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Wainui pensioners fear they will forced out
Thursday, 24 April, 2008

Wainui Beach pensioners say they will be forced out of their homes if the proposed plan for reticulation goes ahead. One superannuitant who has lived on the beachfront in Murphy Road since long before Wainui beachfront homes became fashionable, says he is faced with costs far in excess of anything so far quoted in relation to the council's proposal to reticulate the coastal community. >> MORE

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Opposition increasing at Wainui
Tuesday, 22 April, 2008
By Marianne Gillingham

Wainui residents have organised a campaign calling for mass opposition to the council's plans to reticulate their community. A group representing 336 residents who recently signed a community letter challenging the reticulation proposal, have set up a website, newsletter and help-desk to overcome what they see as minimalist efforts towards consultation. >> MORE

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Wainui/Okitu residents fire up over reticulation debate
Wednesday, 16 April 2008
By Marianne Gillingham

A vociferous turnout of irate Wainui ratepayers last night rejected about a third of the council’s $68 million annual plan, challenging the need to reticulate their community and the council’s right to impose a 289 percent rate hike on them. >> MORE

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Wainui's residents question the cost
Friday, 4 April 2008 By Sophie Rishworth

The majority of Wainui residents who gathered at an information evening at Wainui School last night seemed resigned to the fact that reticulation had to happen - but were worried about spiralling costs. >> MORE

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Wainui angry over the cost of reticulation
Friday, 28 March 2008 By Marianne Gillingham

Anxious Wainui ratepayers yesterday confronted the council over being foisted with a reticulation system that is expected to cost at them least $26,000 each. About 20 representatives attended the council's public forum. >> MORE

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Public debt level needs to be raised
Saturday, 1 March 2008 By Marianne Gillingham

The District Council has adopted a finance committee recommendation to raise the district's public debt level to 95 percent of income. This would take the public debt from $1000 to $1700 for every man, woman and child in the Gisborne rating district. >> MORE

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Wainui's view changing on reticulation project
Friday, 29 Feb 2008 By John Jones

Public opinion at Wainui has now swung against reticulating the area, councillor Andy Cranston told Gisborne District Council yesterday. The comments from Mr Cranston, a council member who lives at Wainui, came after the council debated strongly whether the rest of the district should contribute to the cost of having water and sewer services at Sponge Bay, Okitu and Wainui. >> MORE

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Ratepayers asked to help pay Wainui's set-up costs
Friday, 18 Feb 2008 By Wynsley Wriggley

Council's financial and monitoring committee has decided to include the proposed "public good"-inspired annual charge in the community plan for public consultation. The 10 percent charge -- to be paid in annual instalments at an estimated level of $75 -- relates to the capital cost of wastewater reticulation only. No public good funding is proposed for water reticulation. >> MORE

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Anger, horror over costs of water, sewerage plan
Friday, 17 December 2007 By Jessica Wauchop

Sponge Bay, Wainui, Okitu and Makorori residents are outraged at what they feel is "lip service" by Gisborne District Council over plans for reticulation of the area. Residents expressed their anger at an open day on Saturday at the council's decision to opt for full wastewater and water reticulation for Sponge Bay, Wainui and Okitu, and wastewater reticulation at Makorori. >> MORE

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Moves to retain character
Friday, 14 March 2007 By John Jones

Section sizes at Wainui-Okitu could fall to 800 square metres if reticulation goes ahead - and there would be a height restriction of nine metres. These are the two main recommendations of a proposed plan change that won the approval of the planning and environment committee yesterday and will now go to the full council. >> MORE

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