Permanent Health Warning
Five swimming areas in Waitakere now have ‘permanent health warnings‘.
I think I might take my car into Henderson tomorrow. Then I’ll remove it’s ‘Warrant of Fitness’ and go cruising. If I’m spotted by police I’ll snub my nose at them then wait and see how much the fine is and if they allow me to keep driving. What’s the bet it’ll cost me a bit and/or they’ll take my car off me.
Left: Latest test results.
If anyone suggests another hui, chit-chat, scone or anything other than enforcement action I swear I’ll flour bomb them.
It’s disgusting. It’s shameful. It’s beyond belief that this can go on year after year after decade after decade and now there are permanent health warnings.
Permanent health warning areas:
- Laingholm Beach
- North Piha Lagoon
- Piha Lagoon
- Te Henga (Bethells) Lagoon
- Wood Bay
West Coast Lagoons : Auckland Council is working with the community to improve the water quality at Karekare, Piha, North Piha and Te Henga lagoons.
Is the north piha camp ground connected to the sewage system? How is it that the river continues to fail – when its catchment is bush and council operated sewage treatment provided community facilities
But the question remains – is the north piha campground still discharging into the stream ?
The North Piha campground has never discharged into the stream and also underwent a major upgrade of all it’s sewerage disposal last year which has seen it hooked into the system at the toilet block next to Barnett Hall.
Hi Mark
Yes the North Piha Camp Ground sewage system is connected to the council operated sewage treatment.
Where is North Piha Lagoon? Do they mean the twin streams? There hasn’t been a lagoon there since July?
The Piha R&R recently published “Results show clearly that the recent flushing of the lagoon by nature has resulted in a clean Piha Lagoon with all readings for both Bacteria (Ecoli) and chemicals (Phosphates and Nitrates) being significantly BELOW the safe swimming recommend levels set by Council. This contrast with unsafe levels recorded before the flushing.”
Wrong: the latest result for Piha Lagoon is E-coli (MPN/100mL) 550. That’s a fail !
But where does the Council’s North Piha sewage treatment system discharge go ?