24 Jan 2020

Another expensive bill for another broken pipe in Wellington

From Checkpoint, 5:19 pm on 24 January 2020

Another broken wastewater pipe in Wellington means trucks are hauling a million litres of sludge a day to landfill - a move that could cost ratepayers more than $1 million.

The latest failure, which happened last week, occurred in the Mt Albert sewer tunnel - part of a nine-kilometre pipeline that carries sewage from Moa Point on the city's south coast to the Southern Landfill.

Jonathan Mitchell reports.