Rural water users challenge Kaikōura council plans to treat their water
Water supply users say the Kaikōura District Council should have talked to them before coming up with expensive plans to treat their bore water.
Like councils around the country, the council is upgrading water supplies to meet the New Zealand Drinking Water Standards before the government's new water regulator Taumata Arowai takes over next year.
Council operations manager Dave Clibbery has recommended splitting the East Coast scheme in two, building a $100,000 treatment plant for Clarence and having farms switch to rainwater for domestic use, at their own expense.
The East Coast scheme supplies 21 rural properties and 13 households in Clarence village, with the bulk of the water used for stock.
The bore supply has never been known to cause illness in its 44-year history.
But the Ministry of Health considers no bores safe after the 2016 Havelock North contamination episode in which 5000 people became ill and four died, and the area is on a boil water notice.
A spokesman for the East Coast water users, Bob Todhunter, said members of the scheme had not been consulted on their views.
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