'Significant' impacts if Watercare can't access Herne Bay park

'Significant' impacts if Watercare can't access Herne Bay park
Watercare is working in parks across Auckland for the central interceptor project, including Western Springs, as pictured here. (Image: Watercare)
Oliver Lewis
Not having access to a park in the wealthy suburb of Herne Bay would add significant time and cost to a drainage project necessary to improve water quality in Auckland.That’s the view of Shayne Cunis, the executive programme director for the central interceptor, a giant wastewater tunnel under the isthmus meant to reduce overflows which, even after relatively minor rainfall, result in beaches throughout the city being "black flagged", or unsafe to swim.“We’re all tired of shit on the beaches,” Cunis said, parap...

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