Mangawhai wastewater scheme expanded

The Mangawhai Wastewater Scheme is rapidly approaching its 3000-connection capacity. Kaipara District Council has agreed to kickstart a multi-year project to increase the capacity of the long-troubled Mangawhai Wastewater Scheme (MWWS), with the future aim of pumping effluent to the nearby golf course rather than the current destination, a farm 13 kilometres away. Costing up to $1.705 million, the two stages of what council calls its “revised master plan strategy” will provide for 550 additional connections to the Mangawhai wastewater treatment plant, which otherwise would reach its 3000-conne...