Council News
Council is keeping a close eye on water in the canals at Lake Hood, as warm weather increases concerns about an algal bloom.
Feedback is now open on the draft Methven Community Strategic Plan and residents are being asked if they support the document’s proposed vision for Methven’s future.
Council has commissioned a water balance report for the Washpen/Mt Harding Creek system, as part of its work on the future of the Pudding Hill stockwater intake.
Council will install a new watermain alongside State Highway 1, in the block in front of Mitre 10, before a major asphalting project on the highway gets under way at the end of March.
Council has taken another step in the Local Water Done Well reform and focused its water services delivery options from three to two.
I’m encouraging everyone who has an opinion on the State Highway 1 speed limits north of Rakaia township to share their thoughts with NZ Transport Agency.
Hamish Riach has been reappointed as the Chief Executive of the Ashburton District Council for the next five years.
Five weeks of night work to resurface a section of SH1 in Ashburton is due to start from Sunday 30 March through to around 9 May.
People who normally drive south of Ashburton in the evening or early hours of the morning need to plan around some night-time bridge closures, says NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi (NZTA).
On 4 September 1939, the newspaper headlines declared: “THE EMPIRE AT WAR”. This was the beginning of the Second World War for the people of Ashburton.