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This is a website that was created by a person from my home town of Hake's Bay. The purpose of this website is to update those in the region about local news and current events.

Here is a link to the website - Bay Buzz

This is a very interactive site there is one person who posts blogs daily and created the sight. This person contacts others in the community and asks them to contribute to the site. Some people write articles directly onto the site. In other circumstances the creator of site writes articles from information gathered by interviewing people in the community, watching the news and reading the newspaper about current events.

People choose to join this website to read about local current events. People in the community can also contribute by adding comments or writing on the site themselves after making contact with the creator of the site. In the past a student from a local high school posted an article about his trip to the climate change meeting in Copenhagen. There also been articles and support groups set up to protect possible environmental changes such as a American purchasing land on a public beach and planning to build many private sections preventing public from accessing the area, building a tunnel through the rock at a tourist attraction named Cape Kidnappers and the building of a pest proof fence at the stunning Cape Kidnappers golf course.

Here is a copy of an article about the pollution of the Tuki Tuki river in the Tuki Tuki valley.

Tuki Tuki relief progresses

May 27, 2010

Regional Council CEO Andrew Newman reports that the consenting process is progressing that would shift Central Hawke’s Bay’s (CHB) wastewater discharge onto land and out of the river.

The scheme would see CHB’s treated wastewater pumped onto Regional Council-owned land outside Waipawa. HBRC has acquired land on which it expects to plant trees this winter, starting next month, in anticipation that the consenting process will be uneventful. As the trees grow, the absorption capacity of the scheme will increase over the years.

According to HBRC, sufficient land is included in the scheme to accommodate both wastewater and stormwater discharges. Because stormwater infiltrates the CHB wastewater system, there have been past problems with sewage overflows into the river from settlement ponds. CHB has a separate multi-year workplan to deal with the infiltration issue.

HBRC program staff had a substantial hand with CHB officials in developing the proposal for on-land disposal of the wastewater. Now the Regional Council’s regulatory staff must independently review the final resource consent application, which is expected to be tabled by the CHB District Council next week.

Finally, the application will be heard by an independent commissioner, given that HBRC has been a party to developing the scheme.

Progress. But it ain’t over till the fat lady sings!

Tom Belford

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One Response to “Tukituki relief progresses”

Ethical issues that may arise on websites suh as this is people posting information without the writers permission or consent. Information that is put on this website by others within the community is only read and monitored by one person before comments or new on curerrent events is posted on line for everyone to see.

As this is a online community it can be accesed by anyone anywhere in the world. As a student living in I acess this website daily to read about what happening with my home reigion, make contact with family and freinds sho also comment on this website and read about current events.

This community does not provide any face to face contact with the website designer and any other contributors. Infromation presented on the website is directed towards adult users and can sometiems be very complex to read and understand. There are few opportunites to use tools that allow users to chat to other contributors about activities that are not related to new or current events. For example a chat network, blog, face type section on the website for younger people who also live within Hawke's Bay.