Rangataua water and sewerage report

Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 3, Issue 19, 1 October 1985, Page 6

Rangataua water and sewerage report

After meeting with the residents of Rangataua recently, Councillor John Martin and the Rangataua Committee prepared a report which urged the Waimarino County to prepare a water and sewerage scheme immediately for the Rangataua village. At the Rangataua meeting, the majority of residents and ratepayers of Rangataua decided they would rather remain as they were, without a sewerage and water supply system. However, Cr Martin told the Waimarino County meeting on 19 September that if there was no change, the Health Department might close the houses of some residents due to the health hazard, and the whole of Rangataua might even be closed during winter due to the impossibility of

the present water and sewerage systems coping with the increase in demand. "The health inspector's report shows that most septic tanks are becoming little more than holding tanks in winter months and must eventually pose a health problem," says the committee report. It is believed that there is a 40 percent government subsidy but as this expires in March next year, time is short. It was suggested a poll be taken of all the residents and ratepayers of Rangataua after they had been presented with all the information about the scheme. The council needs only 1 5 percent acceptance from the people of Rangataua to raise a loan, but Cr Jones said he would much rather have the titleholders going along with the scheme, than the council bulldozing them into it.