Jellicoe Street recommended to Council committee as pipe route
20 November 2003
Jellicoe Street, which runs from South New Brighton Park to the sea, is
recommended as the route for a new
pipeline to carry the city’s treated
wastewater out to sea, a report to the Christchurch City Council’s
Sustainable Transport and Utilities Committee (STU) meeting on
Tuesday 25 November.
Mike Stockwell, the Council’s City Water
and Waste Manager, says the recommendation of Jellicoe Street follows
extensive consultation with the
South New Brighton community. The committee report compares the
outcome of consultations about Jellicoe and Beatty streets, along
with relevant legal and technical advice. Following the STU committee
meeting on 25 November, the full Council
is expected to make a final decision on the route at its meeting
on 11 December. “This recommendation will obviously not be a popular
one with Jellicoe
Street residents,” Mr Stockwell says. “However, the City Council
has reviewed six possible routes for the pipeline. The recommendation to select
Jellicoe Street has been made after taking into account issues raised during
the extensive consultative process, as well as environmental, social and financial
factors and input by experts on ecology, law, and engineering.”
The report also recommends that if Jellicoe Street is confirmed as the
pipe route, that improvements to the street and the park be done as part
of the pipeline project. It is recommended that the selected street be reconstructed
as a Living Street, including placing power and telephone services underground.
"Once construction is finished, there will be an opportunity to redesign,
replant and generally enhance the park in the vicinity of the pipeline,
in consultation with the community,” says Mr Stockwell. “We’ll
be working closely with the people living in the selected street, to ensure
any issues are addressed as the pipeline project progresses.”
It is likely that portions of the pipeline will be constructed
at sea, he says, which means that whatever street is chosen, the disruption
will be much less than previously thought when prefabrication of the pipe
may have been done within the domain.
“
The disruption will be the same as for any other street in the
city being dug up and having a large sewerage pipe laid along it,” Mr
Stockwell says.
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