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Lake Mahinerangi is an artificial lake, or reservoir inland from the coast of Otago. A dam was built in 1926 creating the lake. Since that period until 1998, the hydro scheme was owned by the Dunedin City Corporation. Now it is owned by Trustpower, an overseas owned generating and retail electricity company. In 2001, the resourse consents (water rights) come up for renewal, so that they conform to the 1991 Resource Management Act. The Save Mahinerangi Society was formed to prepare for the hearings for this resource consent. A background paper has been prepared which outlines the situation leading into the 2001 hearings. A response has been received to this article, from Gavin Kemble, Environmental Manager, Trustpower Limited.
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WAIPORI CEMETERY
One of the bigger concerns around the lake has been the more or less unrestricted building of cribs on lake margin land owned by the Dunedin City Council and leased by the crib owners. These cribs are apparently not rateable, therefore any services the owners receive from the Clutha District Council do not have their contribution towards these services by way of rates.
Some of these cribs have septic tanks, some do not. There is, and has been problems of run-off of sewerage from these settlements.
The Waipori cemetery was established in about 1861, when the town of Waipori was established to service the gold mining areas around the Mahinerangi area. There are about 220 people buried in the cemetery, which is above the existing town which was inundated with water when the Waipori Dam was built mid last century. The town at its height contained about 4,000 people. There are only 64 people accounted for in marked graves in the main part of the cemetery reserve, and many had been destroyed or ploughed over in subsequent years, just outside the main area.
The existing road reserve and common ground at the northern end of the cemetery were incorporated into the cemetery reserve in 1986. Racemens huts, which were moved on to this area in the 1950's burned down in January 2000, and mysteriously, a two-storied house appeared, complete with verandah and carport. If one were visiting the cemetery one would have to ease past this place to get into the cemetery proper. You would have the feeling that you were encroaching on someone's property....
But it is all "legal" apparently, so the Clutha District Council claims, with a building permit issued and all the i's dotted and t's crossed. But does the owner have tenure of the land (no!) and is it there to stay? Watch this space! See the updates above.John Sinclair comments on it all, and the Otago Daily Times reports on the result. Then there is the letter from Murray Burns of the CDC! and for the latest: Council Desecrates Cemetery Open letter to the CEO, Clutha District Council and their reply (precis) and our comments, plus further action by the Ombudsman on the matter
27.10.00 Latest on the Cemetery |
Clutha District Council plans to dig for BODIES!
G.J.H. Cotton: Questions over the Waipori Cemetery
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27th October 2000 - Latest on the Cemetery
Mr Kelvin Read's friends get cross!
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