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Podcast: The Front Page
Episode: âFlush and forgetâ: Is Moa Point a warning for other wastewater plants?
Description: Wellingtonâs Moa Point wastewater plant has flooded and shut down, dumping raw sewage into the south coast â this untreated discharge is set to continue for weeks.  Heavy rain overwhelmed the facility, built in the 90s, triggering beach rÄhuis, health warnings, and exposing how climate-driven storms are already stressing coastal infrastructure. Billions of dollars is likely required to get our wastewater infrastructure up to scratch nationwide... but after a long history of underfunding, are we too late? Today on The Front Page, University of Canterbury associate professor Ricardo Bello Mendoza is with us to unpack the engin...