Stormwater separation 129 houses from completion

With just handful of properties to be hooked up, a key part of Wanganui's multi-million-dollar wastewater project is nearer to completion.
At the end of October there were only 129 properties still to separate their stormwater from the city's sewerage system.
That means 15,369 properties in the city - or 99.2 per cent - have separate stormwater.
Julian Reweti, the Wanganui District Council's infrastructure manager, said 12,446 properties had been separated since that part of the wastewater scheme started in December 2000.
Mr Reweti said more than 1500 property owners had made use of the council's loans programme to assist with the work, worth a total of $1.991 million.
Those loans averaged $1322 each.
He said almost half the separations still to be finished were above Cobham Bridge.
Aramoho has been completed (2046 separations), while there were four to be done in Wanganui East (2616), 22 in the central city (1652), 20 in St John's Hill (4526), 45 in Gonville (2603) and 38 in Castlecliff (2196).
Mr Reweti said across the city this meant there were very few properties still to separate and he said the value of those loans had shifted only $200 in the last 10 years.