{"id":291730,"date":"2026-02-19T13:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T13:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/291730\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T13:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T13:28:08","slug":"sinkhole-forms-near-wastewater-plant-in-coromandel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/291730\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinkhole forms near wastewater plant in Coromandel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">Residents of a beachside village on the Coromandel Peninsula have been warned a sinkhole has formed near a wastewater treatment plant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The sinkhole formed near the Onemana Wastewater Treatment Plant in Onemana, the Thames-Coromandel District Council said today. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;We suspect treated wastewater may have entered a local wetland, potentially entering a stream that flows to the beach area.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">A spokesperson for the council said as a &#8220;proactive step&#8221;, signage would be erected by the Onemana Dr car park advising people not to swim, fish or collect shellfish in the area around where the stream discharges &#8220;until further notice&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The irrigation disposal closest to the sinkhole was also turned off, the council said, and sampling would be carried out at, and around, the sinkhole site and stream discharge area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Regular monitoring of the site would also be carried out to &#8220;ensure no further deterioration or land movement&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">In addition, the wastewater ponds would be dosed to deal with a recent algae bloom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The council asked people to &#8220;please adhere to these restrictions&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Residents of a beachside village on the Coromandel Peninsula have been warned a sinkhole has formed near a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,1756,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-291730","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-tauranga-bay-of-plenty","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291730","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=291730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}