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Building an Ocean Outfall Around 2007 the Christchurch
City Council is going to build
a pipeline out to sea, called an
Ocean Outfall, to discharge the
city’s treated wastewater. It is Water quality and beach standards The City Council has recently received results from ocean current modelling, which are confirming its expectations of the standard of water that will be reached once the Ocean Outfall is operating. “The public needs to know that taking the city’s treated
wastewater discharge out of the estuary and piping it out to
the ocean will help improve Christchurch beaches,” says City
Council city water and waste manager Mike Stockwell.
“Moving the outfall to sea will make a significant
improvement in the estuary. In addition, all beaches from New At the moment, using the national grading system, all the beaches in the Avon-Heathcote Estuary and those from the estuary mouth to Scarborough are rated “Poor” at best.
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