Calmer waters at Watercare pipeline public meeting

Watercare’s programme director Rob Burchell addresses the audience. Councillor Greg Sayers, Watercare product manager Michael Zhou, One Mahurangi co-chair David Stott, and McConnell Dowell environmental advisor Celeste Rauner. The recent Watercare meeting at the town hall wasn’t as well attended as the one last year. The last time a public meeting was held at the Warkworth Town Hall to discuss Watercare’s new sewage pipeline it was a fiery affair. Nearly 200 residents and businesspeople packed the room on June 19 and didn’t hold back, expressing their anger and frustration at the proposed rout...