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Michelle Duff in Wellington

‘How are we going to survive this?’ Wellington faces six-month wait to halt sewage spill

A health warning sign on display at Breaker Bay following a discharge of untreated sewage from Moa Point Wastewater Plant in Wellington.
A health warning sign after a discharge of untreated sewage from Moa Point wastewater plant in Wellington. Initial repairs should see the plant running again in November. Photograph: Hagen Hopkins

A fix to stop millions of litres of sewage continuing to pour into the waters off the coast of New Zealand’s capital, Wellington will be in place by November, officials have said, with full repairs at the cost of NZ$53.5m by late next year.

More than 100 days since the catastrophic failure of the city’s wastewater treatment plant on 4 February, a mix of raw and partially screened human effluent is still being flushed directly into the Pacific Ocean.

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