Wellington's Moa Point plant won't be fully fixed until next year, officials say

4 minutes ago

Wellington's Moa Point treatment plant will not be fully fixed until at least a year after it catastrophically failed.

In a timeline released on Wednesday, Wellington Water and Wellington City Council say the wastewater treatment plant is expected to be fully restored by February 2027 - and raw sewage should be able to be treated by November this year.

But the timeline also states "full hydraulic capacity" of the plant's bypass and outfall upgrade won't be complete until late 2027.

The treatment plant on Wellington's South Coast flooded in February - shutting it down, damaging equipment and sending millions of litres of raw sewage into the sea each day through the plant's long outfall pipe, about 1 kilometre offshore.