News and Events
News
AGM
Tuesday 27 June 2022
7. 30 pm
Whitford Community Hall
Whitford.
Members and interested friends welcome
Events
UPDATE - June 2022
Auckland Council's Healthy Waters have been convening meetings with all the Whitford Residents groups and Iwi to find a permanent solution to the pollution of the Turanga Awa(river). They have been looking at possible expansion out to 35 years. They have engaged the company Stantec who have narrowed down the options down to 4. They are also looking at the water supply into the village. The final option has to be made before Christmas to get the funding into the next years budget and the intention is to be completed by 2024. Whitford Manor have also been included in the discussion group. Whitford Manor are currently trucking out their wastewater.
Thank you to good work from our our treasurer Glenn Foster - Whitford Estuaries Conservation Society is now a registered Charity organization.
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Charity registration number CC58649
The trailer sailor yacht that was sunk in the river has now been refloated and taken away before Christmas 2019
The challenge was settled out of court in late 2020.
The result was that Le Coz would apply for a new consent to discharge its wastewater.
All wastewater from the subdivision is to be trucked away until the new consent is approved.
As at May 2021 WECS, Whitford Ratepayers Association and Council are still waiting for this to happen.
What form this will take, everyone is unsure.
July 2020 - The challenge is now in the High Court.
WECS have partnered with Ngai Tai ki Tamaki to jointly present the challenge against Auckland Council over the approving of the Variation for Whitford Manor. The key issue is the discharge of treated wastewater directly into the Turanga River.
WEC's and Ngai Tai ki Tamaki's challenge against Auckland Council was lodged in the High Court electronically on Wednesday night 1st July. The hard copies were presented at the Courthouse on Friday 3rd July.
The documentation was very extensive with 4 affidavits, but focus's on the legal aspects of the variation.
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Independent testing done on the water quality by a party outside of WECS has been done and proven to be unacceptable and environmentally bad for the river.