Pipeline work reaches connection stage

The Central Otago District Council has urged residents to mind their surroundings as its infrastructure overhaul begins to flow into urban areas of Alexandra.

Work had moved to Alexandra's town centre this week as a kilometre-long wastewater pipeline along Tarbert St and Rivers St was being built.

The development is part of a pipeline which will take waste from Clyde's new reticulated wastewater system to the Alexandra Wastewater Treatment Plant.

Central Otago District Council capital projects programme manager Patrick Keenan said about 90% of the wastewater pipeline had been installed with only the sections at each end of the pipeline still to be completed. Read more