| 29 Fulton Hogan - Southland: Stead Street Pump station The existing pump station will remain operational until the new pumps have been fully commissioned. REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT initial build, we had to divert one of the surrounding drainage networks. To do that we also got an ecologist involved; we relocated about 500 native species of fish, which was a bit of a success story, including some breeding stock of whitebait, or inanga.” The existing pump station will remain operational until the new pumps have been fully commissioned. Prior to this upgrade, the earlier stages of the project completed by other contractors included installing a heightened sheet pile floodwall along the estuary’s northern boundary, plus footpaths, kerb and channel and a water main. “This is the last piece of the puzzle to all the flood protection work,” Luke says. Materials in the new pump house includes about 400m3 of concrete and 100 tonnes of steel. The pump station will be run with SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) architecture and has the ability to be fully automated. The project is an important contract for Fulton Hogan Civil, with the projected total construction cost including the design being $11 million, of which $8 million is Fulton Hogan’s portion. Commissioning of the pump station is expected to commence around June this year.
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