Parents of babies living in the Waitaki district from next month can be more environmentally conscious under a new subsidy scheme for cloth nappies being launched by the Waitaki District Council.
A Wanaka waste troubleshooter called "Dr Compost" is now on call in Queenstown and will travel over the Crown Range to host his first workshop in the Wakatipu next month.
Engineering consultants will review Cardrona Alpine Resort's wastewater operations this summer, in the wake of a recent four-day closure of the skifield.
Accumulated rubbish in the Queenstown CBD and poorly co-ordinated waste collection are two issues the Queenstown Lakes District Council has under consideration as a comprehensive review of the Wakatipu basin's Waste Management Strategy gets under way.
A total of 19 complaints about the smell coming from Wanaka's $21.5 million wastewater treatment facility Project Pure have been lodged with the Otago Regional Council this month.
Wastewater facilities at Lake Hawea are scheduled to be upgraded, and a resource consent application is to be lodged with the Otago Regional Council next month.
Work modifying the Otematata sewage-treatment plant to meet conditions in a new resource consent should start in September, and then be operating after February next year.
Work is scheduled to start this month on a dump station in Oamaru to take effluent and waste water from campervans and caravans.
Kurow's sewage treatment scheme has been issued with a resource consent, despite an Environment Canterbury panel questioning the standard of effluent treatment and disposal.
The Otematata sewage treatment plant will have to be better managed by the Waitaki District Council under a new resource consent issued by Environment Canterbury, after problems with disposing of effluent.
The Queenstown Lakes District Council (QLDC) can begin working on its $42 million wastewater and sewage facility Project Shotover after being given the final go ahead by the Environment Court.
Tarras residents will "fight to the bitter end" a Queenstown-Lakes District Council proposal to store and discharge treated sewage sludge on a farm in the district, one of the neighbouring property owners says.
There is nothing that causes as much of a stink as, um, poo. Shane Gilchrist gets stuck into the issue.
Three submissions - two in support and one neutral - have been received so far on a proposal by the Queenstown Lakes District Council to dump its treated sewage sludge near Tarras.
Central Otago District Council staff will be closely watching the progress of an application to store and discharge treated sewage sludge on a Tarras property, with a view to doing the same thing with Central Otago waste.
A proposal by the Queenstown Lakes District Council to dump its treated sewage sludge near Tarras is upsetting some neighbouring property owners.
Recycling is now so easy to do in Wanaka, you can even do it in the middle of the night.
