Source: Radio New Zealand
Breaches of odour consents at Wellington Water’s Seaview wastewater treatment plant have upset locals for years. RNZ / Krystal Gibbens
The Hutt Valley’s wastewater treatment plant is upgrading blowers and pipes at risk of failing because they are old or too small.
Wellington Water is upgrading the smell-prone Seaview plant at the same time as it deals with the Moa Point plant crisis.
A tender due on Friday aimed to install new blowers and diffusers for the aeration system.
It said this was all part of upgrades to improve compliance and meet community expectations.
Breaches of odour consents have upset locals for years.
The tender said the equipment was “currently at risk of failure due to its age and insufficient capacity for future peak process load”.
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