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Roger Harris Pump Station - TileFunded: $1,204,444 by MBIE (climate resilience)

Total project cost: $2.1m

Project duration: 20 months

Jobs expected over project life: 7

 

This project sees the structural upgrade of the Roger Harris pump station which is critical in the protection of the Paeroa community. The pump station allows for primary use of land, which is lower than the mean high tide level, and removes rain and flood waters to an agreed height. The work includes upgrading inlet bays, screens, handrails and platform access. The upgrade also includes electrical installations to enhance our regional resilience and environmental monitoring ability. 

Benefits

  • Increased resilience of the Paeroa community.
  • Increased productivity and resilience from the land.
  • Increased food production and employment.
  • Enable personnel who operate these sites to do so with increased safety.
  • Provide enhanced remote monitoring.
  • Create jobs.

Key activities:

  • Electrical upgrade.
  • Installation of coffer dam to hold back water during construction.
  • Construction, including a new foundation (timber piles and concrete pad), inlet bay, screens, handrails and platform access.
  • Commissioning of upgraded pump station.
Coffer dam construction.
Installing inlet bay culverts