{"id":469009,"date":"2026-05-31T10:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T10:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/469009\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T10:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T10:26:09","slug":"risk-sewage-could-leak-from-moa-point-wastewater-plant-during-heav-rain-spell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/469009\/","title":{"rendered":"Risk sewage could leak from Moa Point wastewater plant during heav rain spell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/4JTQ53B_Image_1_jpg.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" alt=\"Untreated water is leaking onto the capital's south coast beaches due to the Moa Point Treatment Plant flooding and being turned off from early this morning.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nMoa Point wastewater plant.<br \/>\nPhoto: RNZ \/ Samuel Rillstone\n<\/p>\n<p>Wellington Water is warning locals there is a risk of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/regional\/595753\/wellington-s-moa-point-plant-won-t-be-fully-fixed-until-next-year-officials-say\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sewage leaking from its Moa Point wastewater plant<\/a> during heavy rain next week.<\/p>\n<p>The water agency said untreated wastewater could be discharged through the short outfall pipe into Tarakena Bay without warning during the heavy rain expected on Monday and Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Moa Point wastewater treatment Plant flooded in February, limiting how much its long outfall pipe can pump.<\/p>\n<p>Wellington Water advised people not to swim in the rain or for a couple of days afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>It reminded locals that Tarakena Bay remains a no-go zone regardless of rain because of its proximity to the short outfall pipe.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Moa Point wastewater plant. Photo: RNZ \/ Samuel Rillstone Wellington Water is warning locals there is a risk&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[964,904,242,85,46,43,965,963,961,962,141],"class_list":["post-469009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-environment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}