{"id":178337,"date":"2025-12-11T03:29:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T03:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/178337\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T03:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T03:29:08","slug":"central-hawkes-bay-community-kairakau-placed-under-level-4-water-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/178337\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Hawke\u2019s Bay community Kairakau placed under level 4 water restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ZYUOfoYRjneFbDGdUm\" style=\"display:none\">Central Hawke\u2019s Bay District Council chief executive Doug Tate said the decision was not made lightly, but one made in the best interests of the Kairakau community. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ZYUOfoYRjneFbDGdUm\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIt became a necessary move due to the inability to extract enough water from the bore and the spring &#8211; the water sources for Kairakau.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZYUOfoYRjneFbDGdUm\" style=\"display:none\">Currently, due to the lack of water, the bore is only able to draw approximately a tenth of its consented take. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ZYUOfoYRjneFbDGdUm\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cAt that rate, it would take almost three days to refill the reservoir.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"ZYUOfoYRjneFbDGdUm\" style=\"display:none\">Tate said the council was exploring any other underlying causes, with the current dry conditions expected to be the main contributor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZYUOfoYRjneFbDGdUm\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe\u2019re having to use tankers to maintain the supply, until the issue is resolved. That\u2019s why we\u2019re having to take such urgent action and implement Level 4 restrictions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Central Hawke\u2019s Bay District Council chief executive Doug Tate said the decision was not made lightly, but one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1561,7972,1853,1259,5205,7557,73392,1976,296,114015,25449,40839,2686,5971,111,43,139,69,21940,84609,54895,165,8229,114016,8238,376],"class_list":["post-178337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-bay","tag-beach","tag-central","tag-community","tag-council","tag-district","tag-flushing","tag-hawkes","tag-into","tag-kairakau","tag-level","tag-meaning","tag-moving","tag-need","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-placed","tag-restrict","tag-restrictions","tag-their","tag-they","tag-toilets","tag-under","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}