13 Sep 2019

Sewage pipes flunk risk assessment

From Morning Report, 8:45 am on 13 September 2019

More than a third of the exposed sewerage pipes criss-crossing New Plymouth streams and rivers have flunked a risk assessment and pose a threat of discharging raw sewage into the waterways, killing aquatic life and posing a risk to human health. Four of the exposed pipes -- busy shifting their share of up to 800 litres per second of raw sewage -- have a risk assessment scores of little more than 30 out of a 100. Our Taranaki Whanganui reporter Robin Martin has more