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Wellington water woes becoming daily disasters, council under pressure Eva Corlett © RNZ / Dom Thomas Burst pipes, a sinkhole, a water geyser in a suburban street - Wellington's water woes are fast becoming daily disasters. © RNZ / Emma Hatton Pressure is mounting on the Wellington City Council and Wellington Water to urgently fix the city's beleaguered water network. A burst water main in Karori today is just the latest in a raft of failures within the capital's water system. Overnight crews worked to fix a sinkhole that opened up in the CBD yesterday. Just days before th...

Wellington Airport (file image). Photo: 123RF While international air travel might have ground to a halt, Wellington Airport's $1 billion expansion plans are getting ready for takeoff. The airport is currently consulting with the public on some of the early development, which will see the airport grow out into the neighbouring suburbs. Public feedback is currently being sought on some of the early development. But Eleanor West, a Wellington-based volunteer for environmental group Generation Zero, said the plans did not make sense. "Our main opposition to the airport expanding is that that's ...

The spill was caused by cracks in a pre-World War I pipe which was originally laid in 1910 and had been scheduled for renewal in three years’ time. While crews rushed to repair the pipe, sewage was diverted to an emergency storage site underneath the Michael Fowler Centre. That storage site soon came under pressure after repairs on Monday evening were delayed due to gas mains and telecommunications wires in the ground. Sucker trucks were in operation overnight to reduce the pressure on the storage space. Crews had to cut the pipe at a section further down the line and put a cap on the...

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