{"id":238148,"date":"2026-01-17T14:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T14:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/238148\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T14:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T14:02:08","slug":"warning-after-sewage-leak-into-wellington-harbour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/238148\/","title":{"rendered":"Warning after sewage leak into Wellington harbour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4KFNBSW_20241205_140152_jpg.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"787\" alt=\"Those living near the Seaview wastewater treatment plant have been plagued by stench for months.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nSeaview treatment plant.<br \/>\nPhoto: RNZ \/ Krystal Gibbens\n<\/p>\n<p>A warning has been issued after a sewage leak in Wellington.<\/p>\n<p>Wellington Water said partially treated wastewater was released into the ocean after a mechanical failure at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/583452\/seaview-wastewater-treatment-plant-stench-likely-to-return-this-weekend\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seaview treatment plant<\/a> around 6pm on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>It said the water near the leak may look cloudy and could smell.<\/p>\n<p>People are advised to avoid the water near Pencarrow.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation is underway into what went wrong.<\/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":"Seaview treatment plant. Photo: RNZ \/ Krystal Gibbens A warning has been issued after a sewage leak in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-238148","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-podcasts","15":"tag-public-radio","16":"tag-radio-new-zealand","17":"tag-rnz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238148","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=238148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}