{"id":673396,"date":"2026-07-04T12:36:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T12:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/673396\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T12:36:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T12:36:15","slug":"another-sewage-discharge-on-wellingtons-south-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/673396\/","title":{"rendered":"Another sewage discharge on Wellington&#8217;s south coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">The capital&#8217;s water entity is investigating after raw sewage was pumped out close to the southern Wellington shoreline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">Tiaki Wai said the short outfall pipe discharged untreated wastewater into Tarakena Bay between 10.30 and 11 on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">The cause of the discharge is unknown but investigations are underway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">Tiaki Wai said contaminated water was likely to be travelling around the coastline. It advised people to stay out of the water between \u014cwhiro Bay and Breaker Bay until Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">The Moa Point Wastewater Treatment Plant has been pumping untreated but screened waste about one kilometre into Cook Strait since its catastrophic failure in February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The capital&#8217;s water entity is investigating after raw sewage was pumped out close to the southern Wellington shoreline.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-673396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}