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Teams working on two of Auckland’s biggest infrastructure projects have had to adapt to major challenges due to the latest alert level 4 lockdown.

Press Release – Watercare Services Aucklanders will soon have the chance to see Hiwa-i-te-Rangi before she disappears completely, digging her way under the city to create Watercares $1.2 billion Central Interceptor wastewater tunnel from Mngere to Grey Lynn.

Watercare/Supplied The $1.2 billion dollar project for New Zealand’s longest underground wastewater tunnel is set to begin construction. Once completed, the Central Interceptor will be the longest bored tunnel in the country, holding up to 226,000 cubic metres of water. It will also act as a buffer for Māngere treatment plant in times of high flow. The excavated earth will be deposited at Puketutu island, where Watercare is carrying out a restoration project to create a park. Watercare traditionally names tunnel boring machines female names and named the machine Hiwa-i-te-Rangi, after t...

Amid Covid-19 recovery measures, ratepayers can expect yearly rates increases for a decade.

Work on the 14.7km long sewer tunnel from Grey Lynn to the Māngere Wastewater Treatment Plant started in 2019 and is expected to be completed in 2025. It is being constructed by Ghella Abergeldie Joint Venture and is expected to reduce sewage overflows into the Waitematā Harbour and help clean up local waterways. He said he was impressed by the professional expertise of the team on site as well as the sheer size and scale of the project. Engineers took Lamonte down a 39 metre shaft to see where work on the first stage of tunnelling from Māngere to Mount Roskill will start in July.