Central
Otago District Mayor Tim Cadogan will not take any crap for his latest
attention-grabbing antics.
The
Mayor donned a Super Turd costume this week for a CODC video to celebrate the
go live of Stage 1 of the Clyde Wastewater reticulation project.
“If
you can’t have a bit of fun during the silly season, when can you,” Mayor
Cadogan said.
In
the video, viewable on Council’s YouTube channel, website (
see below) and Facebook page,
Mayor Tim (aka Flush Gordon) shoots out of the Clyde Primary School tunnel
slide, like a poop down a pipe to proclaim that the project is “flush with
success”.
“It
was all in the name of grabbing a bit of attention for what has been a project
a long while in the pipeline, excuse the pun.”
The Clyde Wastewater project dates back to the business case and subsequent
Long-term Plan public engagement of 2018. The project’s objective was to
build a new reticulated wastewater system to replace Clyde's existing system
that relies on septic tanks and disposal fields. The upgraded system will meet
environmental and resource consent requirements, and significantly improve the
quality of Clyde's urban wastewater discharges. Most importantly, it will
provide the Clyde community with an environmentally safe wastewater system that
will bring significant environmental, health and well-being benefits for
decades to come. It will also allow for future growth in a managed and
sustainable manner.
The
project is being completed in three stages. The first stage was the
installation of the new reticulated system in the central Clyde area in
2020-22. The nearly 200 properties in the Stage 1 area have now been connected.
Two further stages, which cover the remainder of the town, are scheduled for
2028-33 and 2038-43.
Stage
1 of the project involved Council’s contractors: laying a 10.5km pipeline to
Alexandra, laying 4,870m of main pipe through Clyde and 5,843m of pipe work to
connect stage 1 properties; constructing 80 maintenance chambers; and building
and commissioning three pump stations to transport the wastewater to Alexandra
for treatment.
Mayor
Tim issued shout outs to Council’s major projects team and contractors who
worked on the project, and also to the community for its support and patience
throughout Stage 1, and added that the team would be back in the new year to
wrap things up and complete some final remediation on the roads.
