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Speaker 1: Our first guest of the new year is Ashburton District

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Speaker 1: Council's Infrastructure boss Neil McCann.

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Speaker 2: Happy New Year, Happy new to you as well.

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Speaker 1: So new year, same headlines. However, Algie's taken off again

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Speaker 1: in lake Hood. We've got the health warning, but it's

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Speaker 1: not a full closure. What's the situation.

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Speaker 2: No, it's just a health warning as a result of

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Speaker 2: one of the one test taken on the eighth of

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Speaker 2: January which showed the level of sinobacteria just on the

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Speaker 2: threshold of ten cubic millimeters polite biovolume, which is just

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Speaker 2: on the threshold of amber and red. So it just

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Speaker 2: pushes it into the red area where a health warning

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Speaker 2: is issued by TA Fighter or a Health New Zealand.

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Speaker 1: So the boats are okay on the water, but you're

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Speaker 1: asking people to rethink getting in themselves.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. The warning basically says be very aware of water

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Speaker 2: contact and having dogs or people near the water to edge.

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Speaker 2: It's really just about minimizing or reducing contact with the water,

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Speaker 2: is what their health winting is.

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Speaker 1: Is this good news in a way because do I

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Speaker 1: hear that the scientists in the containers in the canal

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Speaker 1: are back from today and we sort of we need

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Speaker 1: the algae in order to test stuff that could work

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Speaker 1: against it.

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Speaker 2: I suppose you could say that. Yes, So today the

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Speaker 2: containers are going to be placed back into the canal

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Speaker 2: to prepare for the scientific study which will take place

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Speaker 2: from February to April. And they were previously in the

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Speaker 2: canal in November, and that was just for a pilot trial,

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Speaker 2: just so that the scientists could get familiar with how

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Speaker 2: it's all going to work. And they'll be all set now.

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Speaker 2: Once they installed, they'll start preparing for the early January

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Speaker 2: start where they'll be more active and test more frequently

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Speaker 2: and do more more involved tests and a full on

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Speaker 2: scientific study.

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Speaker 1: Is there all whey we can stay up to date

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Speaker 1: with the developments both in water quality and what the

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Speaker 1: scientists are up to.

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Speaker 2: Yes, well, we do have a Liquid website where one

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Speaker 2: can check the progress what's happening at Liquid, and we'll

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Speaker 2: regularly update that as we get information, and we'll no

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Speaker 2: doubt be releasing stories on our Facebook page and a

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Speaker 2: newsletter if people want to subscribe to the newsletter that

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Speaker 2: comes out to regarding Liquid.

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Speaker 1: Hey, super quick, Neil on water. I'm back after a

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Speaker 1: few weeks in Victoria and man, we don't even know

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Speaker 1: what dry is when you look at what they're facing.

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Speaker 1: A world of contrast as our return here and it's

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Speaker 1: so green. So we must have had a bit of

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Speaker 1: rain of a new year, in which case, what are

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Speaker 1: we still doing with water restrictions on?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, good question. In the last few weeks we've seen

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Speaker 2: quite a lot of rain, so this morning we'll be

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Speaker 2: reviewing the situation. And it certainly is a hell of

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Speaker 2: a lot better than what it was in December. So

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Speaker 2: the chances are our consumption looking outsumption last week it

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Speaker 2: seems to be dropping. We do look ahead to the

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Speaker 2: weather forecast for over a sort of one to two

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Speaker 2: week window just to see if a spell of five

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Speaker 2: or four or five warm days is coming, but it

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Speaker 2: doesn't look like that it's the case, so in all probability,

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Speaker 2: today we'll review the situation and consider lifting restrictions