Whangarei District Council has effectively been given until early February to adopt a comprehensive upgrade programme for its Whangarei Wastewater Treatment Plant - or risk the rejection of a crucial consent change it wants.
A study into how well an urban carpark ‘rain garden’ cleans stormwater has earned a Whangarei student a $1000 Northland Regional Council award at the Central Northland Science and Technology Fair.
Twenty-five people are to contest eight seats on the Northland Regional Council at this year’s Saturday, 09 October local authority elections.
Would-be Northland Regional Council members have until noon on Friday 20 August to get their nominations in if they wish to stand as a candidate in the 09 October local authority elections.
Officials are hoping up to 90 Northland contractors and consultants will attend one of a series of seminars designed to better protect the region’s waterways from harmful sediment runoff.
The ratepayer-funded Northland Events Centre in Whangarei has been shortlisted in the 2010 World Architecture Festival Awards.
Independent Commissioners have recommended the Conservation Minister grant the Whangarei District Council permission for emergency sewage discharges from its Okara Park Pump Station to the Hatea River.