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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 2017 April Waikato councils back medical school proposal

Waikato councils back medical school proposal

11 Apr 2017, 11:21 AM

Waikato Mayoral Forum

Media Release

Waikato councils have publicly backed a proposal for a third New Zealand medical school.

The joint proposal from the University of Waikato and the Waikato District Health Board to establish a medical school in the region, was discussed at a meeting of the Mayoral Forum in Hamilton yesterday (Monday 10 April).

The forum – which includes the region’s mayors and regional council chair – resolved to unanimously support the proposal and called on the Government to approve the Waikato Medical School with urgency.

Waikato regional councillor and forum chair, Alan Livingston, said: “As mayors of the Waikato region, one of the most rural regions in the country, we are more aware than most of the significant adverse effects the health workforce shortages in provincial and rural areas are having on our communities.

“The proposed medical school will put the right doctors in the right communities, with doctors having an affinity with regional New Zealand and a real desire to provide health care to them.”

The community-engaged, graduate entry medical school has been proposed to address the region’s health workforce shortages and community health needs by producing doctors who are more representative of the communities they serve and will focus on the healthcare of high needs populations.

A post graduate entry school, it will allow more people to train as doctors and stop the over-reliance on overseas trained clinicians. It will also focus on selecting students who are committed to meeting the health care needs of people living outside the main centres.

Students will undertake a higher proportion of clinical placements in community settings, helping them get a real understanding of the community and a desire to work there.

Mr Livingston said: “We know that many of the people in our communities have difficulty accessing healthcare and end up with delayed treatment and poor health. Lots of our rural GPs are retiring and there’s no one to replace them – we need a new type of doctor who wants to do this type of work.

“This sort of approach has worked overseas and it will work here. We have a healthcare crisis in our communities and we need to start addressing it now.”

The medical school proposal is being considered by the Government.