Wellington residents are calling on council authorities to bring in trucks to remove the spoils of a major reservoir project.
Rolleston Street residents in Mt Cook have signed a petition asking Wellington Water to truck away the debris from the proposed Omāroro/Prince of Wales Park Reservoir project so as to not permanently raise their sports field.
They are asking for any spoils to be trucked away over a period of four months with heavy vehicle movements from 9am to 6pm five days a week.
Permanently raising the Upper Prince of Wales Park sports field is opposed by residents in 60 out of 91 addresses in the street.
“Residents feel raising the fields could be structurally unsound, will impact their privacy and safety, and would leave a field too small for proper use”, resident spokesperson Peter Cooke says.
The proposed reservoir is to be 35 megalitres, the largest in Wellington, and sited on the hill just above the sports field.
The residents have been in discussion with Wellington Water and do not oppose the reservoir itself, which is being built for greater water-supply resilience.
The petition will be presented to Wellington Water’s senior leadership team on Wednesday January 31.
