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Work is underway on a $5 million project to resurface and reconstruct parts of Bealey Avenue and Montreal Street.

The staged process will see contractors, Fulton Hogan, working day and night shifts with construction scheduled for completion by the end of June.

Bealey Avenue work is being undertaken on the northern side from the intersection with Papanui Road through to the intersection with Barbadoes Street.

Montreal Street works start shortly and will run from the intersection of Cambridge Terrace through to the intersection of Armagh Street.

Two lanes of traffic will be maintained during the day on both Bealey Avenue and Montreal Street to minimise disruption to motorists and property owners. This will be reduced to one lane on both streets during night works.

The project is part of our ongoing programme to continue improving the city’s roads. Read more about the work at NEWSLINE

If you live or travel around South East Halswell you may have noticed the work underway on our $8 million wastewater scheme which will service more than 5000 new houses.

We’re constructing more than 8km of wastewater pipe, installing a new pump station on Sparks Road and upgrading existing pump stations.

Construction of the pressure sewer pipe will finish in July while work on the pump stations will continue until December.

The pipe will have the capacity to carry over 3 million litres of wastewater per day – this is roughly enough to flood AMI stadium knee deep twice over.

Read more about this project at NEWSLINE

During April we asked for community feedback on how to best dispose of Akaroa’s treated wastewater. This is an important project for Akaroa and ties in with some of other wastewater work we currently have underway.

We’ve spent $250,000 replacing wastewater pipes from Rue Benoit through to Penlington Place along with some wastewater manholes in Settlers Hill.

In Pigeon Bay we’ve installed a new water pipe from the campground through to the yacht club.