NZ Transport Agency Bay of Plenty Office

26 September 2012

NZTA awards Maranui Storm Water support project for TEL

The NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) last week awarded the $1 million contract to enlarge the Maranui storm water treatment pond to HEB Construction Limited.

This project is to increase the size of the Maranui storm water treatment pond, which will allow for additional runoff generated from the Papamoa catchment and the Tauranga Eastern Link project.

Brett Gliddon, NZTA’s Bay of Plenty State Highways Manager, says this work will get underway this month and is expected to be completed by May 2013.

The Maranui storm water treatment pond enlargement is one of seven TEL enabling works projects. Five of the enabling works have already been completed and the last of the seven is currently out to tender. The completed projects include:

· building the Kaituna Road extension

· extending Truman Lane

· relocating a bulk watermain

· storm water upgrades around Mangatawa, and

· expanding an existing pump station.

Construction progress on the Bay of Plenty’s largest state highway project is well underway and soon the Tauranga Eastern Link will be celebrating a special milestone in November, recognising the project’s two-year anniversary since the contract was awarded to build the $455 million Tauranga Eastern Link.

The road is expected to open in 2016, the four-lane Tauranga Eastern Link will run from Te Maunga (near Baypark Stadium) in Tauranga to the existing junction of State Highways 2 and 33 (the Rotorua and Whakatane highways) near Paengaroa. It will be made up of 17km of new road and an upgrade of six kilometres of existing highway.

Keep up-to-date with developments at www.nzta.govt.nz/tel

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