Watercare plugs weather overflow payments

From left, Watercare chief operations officer Mark Bourne with project managers Casper Kruger and Dirk du Plessis at the Lucy Moore Memorial Park pump station. Oyster farmers have been told that there will be no further compensation payouts, despite sewage overflows into the Mahurangi River continuing after heavy rain. Watercare said last month that compensation wasn’t being paid as it was complying with its discharge consent. In the last two financial years, there were 23 overflows at the Elizabeth Street engineered overflow point (EOP) in Warkworth. While Watercare’s Network Discharge Consen...