{"id":606407,"date":"2026-09-20T17:32:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T17:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/606407\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T17:32:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T17:32:18","slug":"tiaki-wai-warning-wastewater-discharged-in-lower-hutt-stream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/606407\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiaki Wai warning wastewater discharged in Lower Hutt stream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RNZ<\/p>\n<p>20 Sep, 2026 12:29 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Waiwhetu Stream. Photo \/ RNZ, Samuel Rillstone<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Tiaki Wai is warning that wastewater is being discharged into Lower Hutt\u2019s Waiwhet\u016b Stream.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The organisation, which replaced Wellington Water in July, said high rainfall caused the plant in the suburb of Seaview to overflow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         It said the wastewater has been fully treated, but may cause the water<br \/>\n         to appear cloudy or murky, and have some odour.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"vhKyQPSbfZ\" style=\"display:none\">It also recommends all recreational water users follow the advice of Land, Air, Water Aotearoa (Lawa).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RNZ 20 Sep, 2026 12:29 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[15969,49947,78,2513,111,43,139,69,31788,184310,184311,1455,78597],"class_list":["post-606407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-discharged","tag-hutt","tag-in","tag-lower","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-stream","tag-tiaki","tag-wai","tag-warning","tag-wastewater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606407","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=606407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}