Robyn WellsThe completion date for the North Otago Irrigation Company's (NOIC) $57million expansion have again been revised. ``We have confidence in the team that they have - they have a new project manager - and we are confident that they are approaching the remedial work well,'' Mrs Wells said. The expansion project, which began in the spring of last year, was initially expected to deliver water to farms by September 1 last year, yet by May, farmers heard of a Christmas 2016 delivery date. Farmers at the end of the line - at Herbert, Maheno and All Day Bay - were not to expect water before March 27, and that date was now expected to be April 10, Mrs Wells said yesterday. In December, she warned shareholders not to rely on McConnell Dowell's updated works programme for a completion date for the project and said yesterday now that crews had begun the work, NOIC had more confidence in the scheduled completion date.

Source: Otago Daily Times March 06, 2017 17:05 UTC