How’s the Taranaki St Rising Main project going? Here’s an update from the engineering company doing the work
1 February 2024 - An update from David Philipson, General Manager | GP Friel Ltd.
Kia Ora,
Happy new year. I hope you all had a great break and are as excited about 2024 as I am. While I had a bit of extra time on leave the teams on Taranaki St have been pushing on with the project and I’m stoked about the progress that they have made while I was away. This is a quick update about what we have achieved so far this year and a heads up about how the project will look over the next couple of months.
The Taranaki St Rising Main is a new major wastewater pipe along Taranaki St from Market Lane to Wigan St. This project will deliver a more resilient network for our wastewater and will cater for growth in our city. We are pleased to be delivering this fantastic project for Wellington Water alongside GHD and on behalf of Wellington City Council.
Our team in Wakefield St has been working outside the BP Service Station to connect up to the existing rising main heading towards Oriental Bay. This was a tricky piece of work where they had to overcome a high water table and congested services. The pipes are now installed and ready for testing over the next couple of weeks.
Later in February this team will start work in Market Lane to bring the new connection from the pump station outside Mojo to the pipes they have completed in Taranaki St. When we work in Market Lane we will close access from Taranaki St and open the access on Cable St to be two way. We will be in touch again before we do that to keep you informed.
Complex pipework in the Taranaki/Wakefield Intersection
Our team in Taranaki St has now installed the new pipe between Wakefield St and Courtenay Place.
They have completed work in the vicinity of Te Aro Pa (the original settlement in Wellington). While progress was a bit slower through this section due to working in the archaeology, we are really pleased to have been able to help preserve some of the history of the City.
The Project Archaeologist made some interesting finds from Te Aro Pa and the development that followed and we are looking forward to seeing the final report. Over the next few weeks we will be reinstating the road surface through this area so that we can move on to other parts of the project.
The remains of a slipway on the old shoreline
At the southern end of Taranaki St - between Ghuznee St and Wigan St - we have some new traffic management sites and we will be installing pipes through this location over the next couple of months.
As this activity progresses we will move along Taranaki St to join up to the sections we have already installed to the north of Courtenay Place.
We will share updates about progress as we move to new areas.
Preparing to install pipes under Vivian St - 1
Preparing to install pipes under Vivian St - 2
What next
You will also see our crews start work in Inglewood Place in a few months as our colleagues at Brian Perry complete their work on the Pump Station and we start to complete the connections for this important addition to the pump station network in the CBD.
As ever, please take extra time for your journeys around the traffic management avoid the area if you can and follow the instructions of our onsite traffic management team.
Our project is planned to be complete in mid-2025 so we are going to be in the area for a while. We will be putting out regular updates to this mailing list to keep you informed of changes to the site and the progress we are making. Let me know if you would like to be removed from the distribution.
Feel free to also send this update to other businesses and residents in the area and encourage them to email us their details to be added to our list for updates.
Please reach out if you have any questions about the work.
Nga Mihi
David Philipson
General Manager | GP Friel Ltd.
