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St Marys Bay and Masefield Beach Improvement Project – Overview
Auckland Council Healthy Waters team, in conjunction with Watercare and Panuku propose to undertake a major infrastructure project to reconfigure the existing
combined sewer and stormwater network at St Marys Bay and Masefield Beach as the first step in a programme to improve water quality and remove combined
sewer overflows from Auckland’s Beaches. We plan to lodge for Resource Consents this year and start building next year – making tangible improvement by 2021.
A. Why are we doing it?
The historic combined stormwater and wastewater network utilised in St Marys Bay and Herne Bay catchments is designed to over flow from time to time but today
existing outfalls discharge frequently to local beaches St Marys Bay and Masefield Beach. The outfall at St Marys Bay discharges at the shoreline and one outfall at
Masefield Beach is broken and needs replacing. We are undertaking this project in order to make tangible progress in improving water quality for these local
environments, to make an overall reduction in combined sewer overflows to the Harbour and to pave the way for future improvements that will further improve water
quality. This project came out of the programme of work that was undertaken last year between Healthy Waters, Watercare, Panuku, Auckland Transport and
members of the Panuku Mana Whenua forums.
B. How will it work?
The project works by collecting flows from London Street and Hackett Street
near St Marys Bay and Sarsfield Street near Masefield Beach in new pipelines
which terminate in a common collection point near Pt Erin. The pipeline from
St Marys Bay is big enough that it can store flows so that these can be
returned to the main sewer when it has capacity. A new outfall will be
constructed from the common collection point so that flows can be safely
discharged to the harbour when there is no spare sewer capacity. The project
is being designed so that it will integrate into long-term network improvement
plans being developed by Watercare and Healthy Waters, which will further
reduce combined sewer overflows and improve water quality .
The next page shows more detail of how the project will work when it is built.
St Marys Bay and Masefield Beach Improvement Project – Overview
How does it work?
1. A new collector system takes
overflows from the existing
Hackett, London and New Street
overflows and conveys them to a
new connection near Pt Erin Park
(black and yellow).
2 New collector pipes take the
existing Sarsfield Street overflows
to the same point (pink)
3 A new pump station at this point
returns low flows back to the main
branch 5 sewer (blue)
4 A new marine outfall (to replace
the existing outfall) is used to
discharge high, dilute flows to the
receiving environment (light blue).
What are the benefits?
The number of overflows at St
Marys Bay is reduced from around
70 per year to around 2 – 4 per
year
The number of overflows at
Masefield Beach is reduced from
around 70 per year to zero.
The new outfall will discharge in
high rainfall events around 30
times per year.St Marys Bay and Masefield Beach Improvement Project – Overview
C. What will it achieve?
The project will work in two ways. Firstly, it will resolve the issues of overflows to both of these local beaches by replacing the existing old outfalls with a single new
outfall that will discharge much further out in the harbour, away from the beaches. Secondly, the project will also significantly reduce the total number of overflows to
the harbour by returning low flows to the main sewer when spare capacity (or ‘room’) is available to take extra flow.
• It will reduce combined sewer overflows to St Marys Bay from over 70 per year to around 2 – 4 per year
• It will reduce combined sewer overflows to Masefield beach from over 70 to zero per year
• It will replace the existing old outfalls at Masefield Beach with a single new outfall
• This new outfall will discharge away from all beaches out into the Harbour. This new outfall will discharge around 30 times per year
• The project will be a first step towards overall improvement of the combined sewer network (which will reduce overflows from other locations ) and it can
work with any future solution that is proposed for the wider network.
How will overflows be reduced?
• The overflows can be reduced because there is a large storage volume in the tunnel between St Marys Bay and Pt Erin. This means that the overflows can be
stored in the tunnel until there is enough spare capacity in the main sewer to return the flows there, where they can be taken to Mangere Wastewater
Treatment Plant to be treated.
• When there are very high rainfall events (such as those Auckland experienced during March) then the outfall will discharge out into the harbour. There will
still be a small amount of wastewater in this discharge.
How will the remaining overflows change?
• There will be fewer overflows – so stormwater and wastewater will enter the harbour much less often than it does now
• The overflows will be screened – so they will have some degree of treatment before discharging
• Because of the storage and return component, the total annual load of wastewater to the receiving environment will be reduced
o It is very difficult to accurately quantify the different amounts of wastewater and stormwater in any one overflow because this depends on so many
different variables – how much rain there is, how full the sewer was at the time, if there are any blockages, if there are other flows in the network
causing problems etc. It is more useful to think in overall terms that the total load will be reduced.
What will happen in the long-term?
• We are replacing infrastructure that is up to 100 years old. The infrastructure built as part of this project will be part of Auckland’s water infrastructure for the
long-term, either as part of an improved combined network or as stormwater-only infrastructure. As additional projects are undertaken to improve the
situation, this project will become part of the wider solution.D. Where exactly will it be built?
The Healthy Waters team has spent some time looking at where it could be possible to build all this new infrastructure. In particular, we have been looking at how we
could construct the various parts of the project safely, minimising impacts on the community and the environment. We have also needed to consider the safety of our
operations team and ongoing impacts on the community and environment once the infrastructure is commissioned.
We now believe that we have enough meaningful information to seek feedback from the community. Part of this is looking at the location of the main pump station
near Pt Erin and where the new outfall could go. The next pages show the options we are considering.
• The first sketch shows one overall alignment from London St through to Pt Erin. There are not many options for the pipe between London St and St Marys
Reserve due to the lack of space.
• The next sketch shows potential options for the final pump station and collection shaft. The route of the pipeline between St Marys Reserve and Pt Erin is
determined by this pump station location. The Healthy Waters team prefers the northernmost location as it is the safest from a construction and operations
perspective and has the least impact on neighbouring communities.
• The final sketch shows options for the new marine outfall. The Healthy Waters team prefers the ‘blue’ option that discharges out by the Harbour Bridge. This
is because there is the least amount of construction in the marine environment, this option avoids existing mussel beds and at this stage it looks the easiest
and safest to construct.
No final decisions have been made and feedback is sought at this stage.Sketch 1 – Overview of the pipelines
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