Pump doubles water supply

Watercare says its new booster pump station on East Coast Road can pump an extra 17 million litres of water to the Hibiscus Coast daily, doubling the amount of water pumped into the region to 34 million litres daily.

The $12 million booster pump station has been in operation since last month.

It will continue to transport water to the Maire Road and Scott Road reservoirs, which, in turn, draw water from the Glenvar reservoir.

Watercare project manager Jason Salmon says the new booster pump station will push water from Auckland’s water treatment plants to the Hibiscus Coast faster and allow more water to be available in the community.

“This means we can keep the area’s water storage reservoirs topped up throughout the day more quickly – especially in summer when the water demand is much higher,” Salmon says.

He says the new booster pump station is designed to meet the needs of the Coast’s growing population.

The project team is now turning its attention to dismantling the old pump station roughly 300 metres down the road, Salmon says.

It will take the project team four weeks to safely dismantle and remove the remains of the old pump station. Demolition will begin with removing and decommissioning salvageable items such as pipework, pumps, and equipment.

“Once demolition is complete, the leftover material will be transported off-site, so the land can be in-filled and landscaped to tie into the surroundings to make it look like the old pump station never existed.”