Kapiti Council turning taps on for river water again

By Alan Tristram

Bore water turned off

Thanks to recent rain, the water supply for Raumati, Paraparaumu and Waikanae is now back to 100% river water.

But the Kapiti Coast District Council says it may take 24 to 48 hours for the 100% river water to get through to customers.

With the river now running at 1774 litres per second, there are no water restrictions in place.

In future,Once the river recharge scheme is operating, bore water will be added to Waikanae River below the treatment plant when river levels are low, so more water can be taken from the river.

Because the bore water will be added below the plant, it won’t enter water supply.

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100 Years Ago — and the Maori Long March begins

Māori politics was dominated by the influential MPs (and sometime Cabinet ministers) Māui Pōmare ( Waitara statue photo above) and Apirana Ngata.

The 1920's also saw the rise of Tahupōtiki Wiremu Rātana’s religious movement, and the emergence of Te Puea Hērangi in Waikato.

Ngata worked hard to foster Māori scholarship and education and preserve traditional arts and culture.

He convinced the government to establish a Board of Maori Ethnological Research (1923), a Maori Purposes Fund Control Board (1924) and a School of Maori Arts and Crafts in Rotorua (1927).

The Reform government also took the first, tentative steps towards settling longstanding Māori grievances.

Agreements with Te Arawa in 1922 and Ngāti Tūwharetoa in 1926 recognised their respective rights over the Rotorua lakes and Lake Taupō, and led to the establishment of trust boards with some government funding.

Commissions of inquiry which examined Ngāi Tahu grievances (1920–21) and the Waikato and Taranaki confiscations (1926–27) recommended that modest compensation be paid.

Kāpiti and Coast Independent

Bore Water Off

Kapiti Council turning taps on for river water again

Bore water turned off