{"id":202458,"date":"2025-12-26T08:23:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T08:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/202458\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T08:23:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T08:23:06","slug":"water-pollution-warnings-for-wellington-lower-hutt-after-wastewater-discharges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/202458\/","title":{"rendered":"Water pollution warnings for Wellington, Lower Hutt after wastewater discharges"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWhen it\u2019s raining, wastewater volumes are higher than usual, and some wastewater may bypass the full treatment, resulting in a discharge of partially treated wastewater via the long outfall pipe, 1.8km offshore. Any discharges in this location will be heavily diluted because of significant tidal flows,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n

People should stay out of the water on Wellington\u2019s south coast for at least 48 hours after rainfall. And Land Air and Water Aotearoa urged ongoing caution in the area – \u201cbecause of potential discharges of partially treated wastewater on rainy days, we advise people take extra care if recreating [swimming] in this area after rainfall\u201d.<\/p>\n

It would continue to monitor the water quality in the area after rainfall and water discharges.<\/p>\n

Wastewater had also been discharged into Wellington Harbour from the Waiwhet\u016b Stream in Lower Hutt after heavy rain, Wellington Water said. It was fully treated but could be smelly.<\/p>\n

Boxing Day Enterococci bacteria results for all Lower Hutt swimming spots, including popular spots Petone and Eastbourne, showed the area was unsuitable for swimming, Land Air and Water said.<\/p>\n

For Wellington\u2019s south coast and the Lower Hutt beaches, the waste could create cloudy or murky water, it said.<\/p>\n

\u2013 RNZ<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWhen it\u2019s raining, wastewater volumes are higher than usual, and some wastewater may bypass the full treatment, resulting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1443,74,1558,124081,2082,71,305,49947,18087,6922,2513,22643,111,43,139,69,4987,10041,17933,37077,33210,78597,376,52,102],"class_list":["post-202458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-about","tag-after","tag-been","tag-discharges","tag-for","tag-from","tag-have","tag-hutt","tag-issued","tag-labels","tag-lower","tag-marked","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-pollution","tag-spots","tag-swimming","tag-unsuitable","tag-warnings","tag-wastewater","tag-water","tag-wellington","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202458","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=202458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}