Published as Issue No. 81<\/p>\n\n\n\n
September 25, 2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Action Plan:<\/strong> Ten local people met on Sunday to consider how to work together, and with the City Council and its water, stormwater, and wastewater services subsidiary Capacity<\/em> [Now Wellington Water] to eliminate pollution in Houghton Bay. The pollution is caused by leachate from the former Houghton Valley tip, especially when it rains. Among the options under consideration are capturing water from several natural springs on the western side of the valley, to avoid overloading the stormwater system which then flows into the Bay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is linked to the idea of \u2018Lifting the Creek\u2019, piped for decades under the tip. There was agreement the solutions are likely to be complex and the problem will not be solved overnight. For further information go to our website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Website: <\/strong>Over the last two weeks a number of people have used the just-launched website in a number of ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n School Fair:<\/strong> Clipped from the school newsletter. \u201cThe time for the school fair is rapidly approaching \u2013 please donate any spare, outgrown, unloved clean clothes that are in good repair to the cause.\u201d<\/em> If you are new to the area and don\u2019t have children at the school, this is a community event where many locals get involved, or at least roll up to support, eat, drink, buy. Saturday October 19, 10 am \u2013 2 pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Grant and Norman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Published as Issue No. 81 September 25, 2013 Action Plan: Ten local people met on Sunday to consider how to work together, and with the City Council and its water, stormwater, and wastewater services subsidiary Capacity [Now Wellington Water] to eliminate pollution in Houghton Bay. The pollution is caused by leachate from the former Houghton Valley tip, especially when … Continue reading Newsletter No. 96<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279,"href":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions\/279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}