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One Mahurangi co-chair Dave Stott is concerned about recent drilling in Elizabeth Street and what it might mean for Warkworth’s central business district.
A Watercare spokesperson says planning partners are undertaking topographic survey work and geotechnical borehole sampling on Elizabeth Street, as part of the feasibility phase for the Warkworth Interim Network Upgrade project.
The “interim upgrade” will address the immediate network capacity constraints, frequency of overflows, and the partial passage of initial flows from proposed and pending development to the north and west of Warkworth.
The Warkworth South branch (again from Hill Street to the pump stations in Lucy Moore Park, but via a different route) is still under investigation and Watercare expects to have an update by the middle of the year.
Stott says Watercare keeps saying it is still reviewing route options for the south branch, “but it’s starting to look very much like they are proposing to go through Elizabeth Street and not around the town as we’d hoped”.
