An independent review of the Central Hawke's Bay wastewater systems is underway the CHB District Council was told yesterday while discussing a special agenda item on the charges laid by the Hawke's Bay Regional Council the day before.
The CHB council is facing three charges laid by the regional council in relation to discharges of contaminants from its Waipukurau and Waipawa wastewater treatment plants.
Chief executive John Freeman told councillors that it was expected that the plants would go over the annual allowable five exceedances, which he believed happened during downpours in September this year.
"We expected this in the next rain event and pre-empted it by approving building a water balancing pond at Waipukurau," he said.
"We have been working with the Hawke's Bay Regional Council on trying to solve stormwater inundation problems."