Council News
Council’s roading contractors are turning their attention to winter jobs, including shingle road maintenance and high-pressure water cutting on some sealed roads around the district.
Council is alerting 202 property owners in the Methven, Mt Somers and Mayfield areas that they might have a leaking water pipe.
Together Everyone Achieves More. If you take the first letters of those four words you get TEAM, and this district has plenty of team players and teams to be proud of right now.
The Council has joined forces with local volunteers to control pests at Awa Awa Rata Reserve and surrounding native forest from this weekend.
The construction contract for the SH1 Tinwald Corridor Improvements project, on the south side of Ashburton, has been awarded to Fulton Hogan with a tender price of close to $5 million.
A light spruce up has commenced at Spaxton Street playground in Methven, with plans to tidy up the Methven Railway Reserve playground afoot.
A few weeks ago I attended the Combined sectors meeting in Wellington. This involved the Metro, regional and rural and provincial councils and was the first time that all three sectors had met like this.
Lawn clippings, prunings and other greenwaste taken to the Ashburton Resource Recovery Park is now being transferred to Timaru to become compost sold in bags or bulk.
Forty-seven people, from 13 different countries, officially became Kiwis recently at a citizenship ceremony at the Ashburton Event Centre.
The new membrane filtration plant that will treat drinking water for users on the Methven and Methven-Springfield community schemes is on track to be fully commissioned by mid-August.