Stormwater filter for Kohineheke Reserve
Work is underway to install a stormwater filter in Turangi’s Kohineheke Reserve.
The filter will help prevent sediment, oil and debris from entering the wetland ecosystem and is being put underground on the reserve, intersecting a main stormwater pipe that runs from the central business district.
Taupō District Council’s stormwater and solid waste asset manager Brent Aitken said the filter uses centrifugal force and it will be the fourth device of its kind operating in the Taupō District.
“We’ve had great success with our existing devices, with improved quality of discharge to the lake, so we want to expand the project to continue that," he said. “This device will collect contaminants that have flowed all the way from the central business district, which is where a lot of waste that ends up in the stormwater system comes from.”