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Water Shutdown - Lawrence Street, Te Kūiti 4.30pm

Sometimes accidents happen... 
The water supply to Lawrence Street will need to be shutdown for a few hours while contractors repair a broken watermain. We apologise for the inconvenience.

Urgent water shutdown for leak detection in Maniaiti/Benneydale
We have discovered that there is a large leak in the water network in Maniaiti/Benneydale that we need to find and fix, as we are losing a lot of water.
Waitomo District Council contractor McIndoe Group will be shutting down the water in Maniaiti/Benneydale today in order to try locate the leak.
Leak detection helps identify where there could be faults in the network and can also help determine where water loss is occurring.
There will only be a temporary interruption to water supply, and it should not overly disrupt or interfere with normal usage.
Work will include turning off a valve at each street for a few minutes to check for changes in water pressure.
A leak detection device will also be used to listen for leaks on the water mains.
If the leak is detected in the Council-owned network, repairs will be undertaken.
If you experience unclean water flow afterwards, please wait 10 minutes and then run an outside tap for at least five minutes or until water runs clear. This is to avoid any unclean water entering your household system.
We also ask that you please conserve water as much as possible.
Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.
Home Our Council News News and Media Releases 2016 May Be part of the great persimmon rescue

Be part of the great persimmon rescue

25 May 2016

Volunteers are being sought to help save more than 20 tonnes of persimmons from rotting on a Matangi farm.

Community Fruit Harvesting – in collaboration with Love Food Hate Waste – is coordinating The Great Persimmon Rescue on Sunday 5 June. The event is supported by Waikato Regional Council and Waipa District Council.

The fruit will be distributed to food banks and other charities, as well as schools in the Waikato. Countdown has also jumped on board and will truck persimmons to Auckland for distribution to people in need.

Volunteers who join The Great Persimmon Rescue won’t walk away empty-handed either – they’ll be able to take home some of the fruit they’ve picked, along with some great recipe ideas.

People interested in helping to pick persimmons are urged to email Community Fruit Harvesting in Hamilton on [email protected] or visit www.facebook.com/PickFruitHamilton.

Already community and church groups from as far away as Tokoroa have put up their hands to help out.

Poor health means the owners of the persimmon farm were this year unable to harvest their fruit crop. The couple didn’t want their fruit to go to waste, so reached out to the community for help and Hamilton’s Community Fruit Harvesting team responded.

Persimmons are an unusual fruit to receive in a food parcel and not everyone knows how to eat or cook with them, so Love Food Hate Waste has produced a recipe card with information on how to make the most of this exotic fruit.

Love Food Hate Waste is a joint collaboration with 59 councils from around New Zealand with the aim of reducing the amount of food households are sending to landfill each year. 

In New Zealand, households throw away 122,547 tonnes of food annually at a cost of $872 million. That is enough food to feed the population of Dunedin for two years. The average Kiwi family wastes more than three shopping trollies of food, which they throw away each year uneaten.