Post by Brent George on Apr 2, 2024 3:04:13 GMT
Bluff drainage dispute taken to Environment Southland
Stuff - Southland: 30-March-2024
A drainage dispute among Bluff neighbours led to a standoff with a 67-year-old woman physically blocking contract workers.
They returned in her absence and Jill Quaid and her husband Richard of 2 Pilcher Ave are now the unhappy recipients of water they insist is being artificially and illegitimately channelled into their property,
However, the Invercargill City Council has emphatically sided with the neighbours in disagreement that is, in part, about whether man-made ditches constitute “natural flows’’.
Stuff - Southland: 30-March-2024
A drainage dispute among Bluff neighbours led to a standoff with a 67-year-old woman physically blocking contract workers.
They returned in her absence and Jill Quaid and her husband Richard of 2 Pilcher Ave are now the unhappy recipients of water they insist is being artificially and illegitimately channelled into their property,
However, the Invercargill City Council has emphatically sided with the neighbours in disagreement that is, in part, about whether man-made ditches constitute “natural flows’’.