Composting plant

Wednesday’s The Press front page headline states that the CCC is going to spend $52 million on piping wastewater from Diamond Harbour and Governors Bay to Lyttelton and then through the Lyttelton road tunnel to connect with the waste water plant at Bromley.

Could someone please explain how the CCC can find $52m dollars for this project when no money can be found for the covering of the windrows at the Metro Place composting plant.

This Lyttelton Harbour project does not affect human life, lifestyles and health issues like the offensive odours, bio aerosols, pathogens, and dust does from the CCC-owned, Living Earth-operated composting plant at Metro Place. It is a living hell for those living in the wind shadow of this operation. The composting plant was foisted upon residents back in 2009. The wastewater has been flowing into the Lyttelton harbour since the first four ships arrived with no adverse affects on human life, lifestyles and health.

Is it possible that the CCC can get their priorities right for a change and put people and their living environment first and foremost, especially after the CCC gaffed in placing the unfinished, out-of-date plant within the city boundaries next to residential zones? No other country in this world that I know of has an open air composting plant (uncovered) in the middle of a city.

GEOFFREY KING

Bromley