Comments on: Hastings sewage fiasco – plant shut down

By: Luka

Luka — Mon, 24 May 2010 22:23:11 +0000

I live in clive and i bike past these tanks evry day. When i recieved a letter from the Hasings Distict councl for my concent on the plant it read “no smell” and also “surounded in native life” well i said yes that sounds fine and what i got was a smelly plant with little weeds growing around it those plants are going to take ages to grow. i am now do ing reserch on this and i would like som answeres thanks.

yours faithfully
Luka Mayo

By: Mike Clark

Mike Clark — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 07:29:52 +0000

Oh Dear!!
The Bio Treatment Plant at Clive is not operating to Expectation.
Challenge!!.
Bio Treatment such as used here is not new , I have seen Articles thirty Years ago from Denmark whee it was used in Fish Farms
A case of Hawkes Bay Gold Medal Red Wine( Of My Choice!!} to the person who Proves me wrong.
My Take , is the Plant is Too small to Handle the Volume of Effluent it is Expected to turn into nice wee Biological Inert Bacteria that are then Pumped out to Sea.
And the Eight Fans that the Council is installing?, Great !! if you have a Westerly Wind.
I have seen the Prototype Operating and it occured to me at the time,that the flow produced , while looking Sexy ,would Require a Huge Facility to Handle the Waste it was expected to.
Imagine one One Huge Pump at full Capacity let alone Two!!.
I do hope that the problem can be sorted out.
But, given the above , the good Residents of East Clive will have to put up with this problem for some time.
Its only your Rates money!!
Regards
Mike

By: Mike Clark

Mike Clark — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 09:29:05 +0000

Hi Everyone.
Until now, having been a keen Bay Buzz Reader every Morning I have suppressed the desire to comment on the subjects that interest me.
However, there is a limit to my tollerance of Idiocy and blatent waste of the Ratepayers money.
My History.
Let me firstly state , I am not a “Greenie”by Nature , or, do I buy into the Global Warming Debate on either side of the Argument.
I grew up on the Southern oustskirts of Hastings alongside the Irongate Stream , the son of a Dairy Farmer , as most in our Area were. at the time.
Orcharding was expanding and Horticulture was the other main use of the surrounding land.
I witnessed the establishment of Flaxmere and the Repositioning of the Southland Drain to take the West side Hastings Storm Water under our Property from the Corner of York and Maraekakaho Roads to the Irongate in the Mid 1960s.
Flaxmere Storm Water was also directed into the Irongate Stream.
Prior to this Generations, of Locals , both from town and Country , swam , Fished and enjoyed the Irongate.
Not so now, the Filth that arrives down the Pipe from the Southland Drain has on many occasions Killed all the Eels and Fish in the Irongate.
My Great , Great Grandfather was one of the First Well Sinkers in this area and I , to my Knowledge are the only holder of a Water Bottling Resorce Consent within the Heretunga Plains Aquifer.
Dont worry, most people use more Water in their Domestic day to , day use than we Bottle.
Because of the above i have a very Keen interest in the Continuing Quality of the Water and have a comprehensive Testing Proceedures that would alert me to any abnormalities in the Mineral composition Ect.
This information I have passed to the Regional Concil for their Analysis and records.
Please Excuse my ramblings.
Having now established myself and and Family as Generational long suffering Ratepayers, that do care about the Community and Enviroment , i will now fire the first Salvo of Many across the Bow of the Good Ship HDC.
Just a quick one to enable me to get my Eye in.
I see that it has been suggested we play Classical music over loud Speakers in the Hasting CBD at night to deter the Moron Brigade form Graffiti Ect .
The proposer for the Project is long time HDC Employee Colin Hosford.
For those who are suffering a Memory lapse, the last time Colin got hold of the HDC Cheque Book he Organised at great Expense the PODS in Havelock north.
I know colin, and he is a very nice Fellow, but Lord, give me Strength!!.
Whats next? Rap Music to Facilitate and Encoroge patronage of the Retail outlets in the mornings?
Does this mean I am restricterd to the hours of 3 to 5 PM when Country and Western is played??
I think I will enjoy commenting, as being one who has taken notice of the changes in the Enviroment over the years know only too well where the “Hot” Spots are .
Regards
Mike

By: Dave Head

Dave Head — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 22:59:50 +0000

This is hardly surprising news -well at least not if you have ever talked to David Renuof or have researched other cities treatment systems. One wonders what sort of back flips are about to be performed over this one. Hopefuly the Napier councillors take notice and don’t repeat the ‘unfortunate experiment’ over here.
Is it my imagination or are ‘we’ stumbling from one disaster to another around here?