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Speaker 1: Neil McGann is the infrastructure Bars and Ashputin District Council. Morning.

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Speaker 2: Wait, Luke, how are you?

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Speaker 1: You're good? And maybe an early Christmas present of sorts

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Speaker 1: for our friends at lake Hoods. Those containers in the

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Speaker 1: canal as you're driving in on the right there, they're

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Speaker 1: coming out today.

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Speaker 2: That's correct, Yes, they The pre trial exercise we are

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Speaker 2: undertaking is now done, so we will remove the containers

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Speaker 2: today and be ready to come back on the nineteenth

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Speaker 2: of January when we prepare for the full scientific trial.

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Speaker 1: What can you tell us at this stage we had

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Speaker 1: in the early wins, No, I think it's more.

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Speaker 2: About how the professor and the university students are going

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Speaker 2: to set up the trial. That just learned a lot

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Speaker 2: about how to take the sampling, were to sample it,

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Speaker 2: just understand the environment, and we do have a control

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Speaker 2: container with no product added to it, and we use

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Speaker 2: that as a reference for the other five which we'll

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Speaker 2: have products. And it was just a matter of just

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Speaker 2: getting to understand how they're going to use it and

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Speaker 2: how they test, and particularly the starting point that they

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Speaker 2: all started the same conditions with temperature and and all

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Speaker 2: the other conditions. So it's really scientific topic work to

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Speaker 2: make sure that each particular container is very similar to

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Speaker 2: the other one we come around to doing the scientific trial.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot of interest in this to fill in

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Speaker 1: the blanks for any listeners that might be thinking, what So,

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Speaker 1: there's about six containers that have had the top and

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Speaker 1: the bottom cut off and they've been put in one

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Speaker 1: of the canals of the lake. And the products that

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Speaker 1: you mentioned is stuff that we're trialing to get on

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Speaker 1: top of the algae.

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Speaker 2: That's right. So we've got five different products that have

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Speaker 2: been offered by companies to test out their effectiveness in

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Speaker 2: mitigating the growth of sinobacteria blue. So by putting these

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Speaker 2: containers in there we had it basically gave us an

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Speaker 2: opportunity to have a controlled environment. Because the sediment is

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Speaker 2: really important. It's not a matter of just pumping water

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Speaker 2: out and testing it in a pond. You want to

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Speaker 2: test it in the environment where there is signo bacteria

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Speaker 2: in the sediment. And so it's a perfect condition conditions

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Speaker 2: for the trial. Temperatures is a bit warmer in the containers,

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Speaker 2: which is even better for for siginobacteria bloom. So it's

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Speaker 2: actually worked really well. And Professor as he would is

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Speaker 2: particularly excited with the way it's worked, and it's looking

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Speaker 2: good for the more detailed trial.

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Speaker 1: Am I correct to Neil and saying that we're getting

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Speaker 1: funding for this?

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Speaker 2: That's correct. Yes, all the time being spent by the

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Speaker 2: university and the students is all covered by a government grant.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's very good.

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Speaker 2: So we as council provide the containers and just a

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Speaker 2: bit of assistance with some of the operational issues of

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Speaker 2: the trial.

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Speaker 1: Great hey, Keeping with water super quake, I also spot

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Speaker 1: that the water treatment plant and the ash person domain

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Speaker 1: is back online this week. It's one of four that

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Speaker 1: supplied town although fun thanks. This one supplies over half

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Speaker 1: of all the drinking water that comes out of our taps,

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Speaker 1: so it'd be great to have it back up and running.

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Speaker 1: Will that see an end to water restrictions and time

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Speaker 1: for Christmas?

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Speaker 2: No? Well, depending on the weather. If the weather continues

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Speaker 2: like us, we should we should be okay and we

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Speaker 2: shouldn't have to lift the water restrictions to the next level.

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Speaker 2: But I think for the time being we'll just monitor

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Speaker 2: the float. Will it will provide more pressure in the

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Speaker 2: system for the people in town have noticed a drop

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Speaker 2: and pressure while plants being offline, so it will come online.

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Speaker 2: We'll get the pressure back up and running. But the

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Speaker 2: total consumption, although it has dropped slightly since we did

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Speaker 2: implement the conservation risk years, that's good. So it's looking

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Speaker 2: looking promising and if the weather continue, if we get

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Speaker 2: a few days like this going forward, we should be

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Speaker 2: good for Christmas New Year.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, be apprecive for washing those Christmas spuds and also

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Speaker 1: just to read public service messas, don't panic if we

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Speaker 1: see a bunch of water running along the gutter down

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Speaker 1: Walnut Air this week. It's all hard the process.

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Speaker 2: Yes, that's right. So we've got to get a good

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Speaker 2: flush through the new equipment network take placed. I think

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Speaker 2: it's today and tomorrow we hope to be done. And yeah,

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Speaker 2: there will be some water that will run into the

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Speaker 2: gutter and into the drains just while we do these tests,

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Speaker 2: and it's necessary to just give the equipment a good flush.

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Speaker 1: Nice Merry Christmas to yourself, Neil. We can enjoy a

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Speaker 1: well earned break