Council News
Over 1000 youngsters headed along to Council facilities over the recent school holidays, to make snow globes, use a laser cutter or take part in a winter challenge.
Parts of Allenton may experience low water pressure over the next three weeks as part of work to upgrade the Argyle Park water treatment plant.
Two hundred and seventy primary school children who travel to school on buses are now wearing bright new hi-vis vests, thanks to a road safety alliance between Council and its roading maintenance contractor HEB.
Candidates for seats on Council are beginning to emerge, with just two weeks until the nomination period closes.
Wastewater has begun to flow in Council’s new 1.45km trunk main that takes Ashburton’s sewerage and dirty household water to the Wilkins Road treatment plant.
A rise in the value and number of building consents issued by Council in the past year has been led by new urban subdivisions and confidence in the local building sector.
The historic footbridge over the railway in Ashburton will be out of action for at least three weeks, with engineers confirming damage to a support pier on the western pedestrian approach after a car crashed into it this week.
Council has begun planning a monitoring programme at Lake Hood to better understand the water temperature and level of dissolved oxygen in two areas of the lake.
The Tinwald viaduct will be closed to vehicles until KiwiRail can repair an overhead beam that was damaged by an excavator being towed on a trailer a week ago.
Council will soon be writing to more than 1000 households in the district, inviting them to apply for a rates rebate.