The 37-year-old association, which has tackled noise issues from port activities in the past, will hold a meeting at the Careys Bay Hotel tonight to inform residents of Port Otago's plans, including extending the wharf at the Boiler Point reclamation, association secretary-treasurer Joseph Cecchi says.
It would be the "dormant" association's first formal meeting for years but he hoped it would make residents aware of "what is going on" and possibly lead to the association lodging an objection to the company's plans when the resource consent was notified.
The port company had indicated as part of its next generation channel deepening project that it wanted to also build a 135m, $10 million extension of the multipurpose wharf at Boiler Point, and a further 30m fishing platform.
It lodged resource consent applications for the channel deepening project with the Otago Regional Council last month.
Mr Cecchi said there was a feeling among some residents that noise levels were already excessive some nights when shipping containers were moved around at Boiler Point.
"We have noise concerns here.
We are not in the noise zone but we will be if they do an extension to the berth at the wharf."
While the port company held a public meeting in Careys Bay to discuss the next generation plan, they did not act on any of the feedback residents gave it, he said.
Careys Bay resident Kris Nicolau said people were not against the port company but believed it needed to be aware it operated alongside a residential community and as such needed to invest in technology to reduce noise, not only in Port Chalmers, but in Careys Bay as well.
