Napier outfall repair complete - replacement challenges loom
4 Feb, 2021 11:03 PM
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A boat works on the Napier city wastewater outfall off the Awatoto coast. Photo / Paul Taylor
A boat works on the Napier city wastewater outfall off the Awatoto coast. Photo / Paul Taylor
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Contractors employed by the Napier City Council have completed repairs to the leaking underwater Awatoto wastewater outfall pipe in a four-month project which originally was planned for just one month.
The weather-dependant project, for which the council set a budget of $500,000, began in September, with hopes it would be complete by the end of October.
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Researchers at UPMC Hillman Cancer Center and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) demonstrate that changing the gut microbiome can transform patients with advanced melanoma who never responded to immunotherapy-;which has a failure rate of 40% for this type of cancer-;into patients who do.
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Brazos Valley school districts not immune to hiring struggle felt across the state
and last updated 2021-02-04 23:40:18-05
BRAZOS COUNTY, TX â School districts across Texas have seen various demands in faculty, forcing departments to adapt to the lack of employees.
Caldwell ISD has experienced this firsthand.
âWeâre having them slowly start to leave said Brady Beavers, Head of Transportation for Caldwell ISD. We re struggling to keep people here. Itâs a bad environment when you have 60 plus kids on a bus,â
Beavers has found himself driving routes on days they re short of drivers. He acknowledges his employees are putting themselves at risk even though they love their job.