🫨 🚰 INFRASTRUCTURE MADNESS: Mums & Dads Expected to Coordinate $1.5 M Transmission sized Pipeline

This post is to show the ridiculousness of this situation in Papakura.

I joined a meeting on Thursday: Small home developers in Papakura (‘Mums & Dads’ level) are being told to self-organise a major wastewater upgrade through Woolworths carpark (the SUBWAY UPGRADE).

One group has already funded the $40,000 EPA, now they need to spend $40,000 for Council to ‘check’ things out, then they should be able to do the upgrade.

My eyes popped!

$10 M in council growth revenue sitting there waiting (IGCs and DCs)

💰 $64,500 per house in growth contributions ready to flow

But families must coordinate transmission-level infrastructure themselves?

❌ Become drainage engineers overnight
❌ Arrange $1.5M in funding mechanisms
❌ Navigate complex infrastructure contracts
❌ Coordinate with many other small developers many of whom don’t want to give money into a black hole and be a first mover
❌ Continue to fund holding costs that are crippling some
❌ And future joiners get it for free?

Surely there is a better way, a way that is actually there, they JUST NEED HELP and SUPPORT.

Meanwhile: InfrastructureNZ knocked them back (needs $40M minimum), they need second mortgages – over the mum and dad homes???

Veolia staff send emails telling others to do the infrastructure work. No one steps up to coordinate.

This isn’t Fletchers or Simplicity – these are small developers and families who need EXPERT LEADERSHIP, not a DIY approach to transmission pipelines.

🎯 Where are the infrastructure professionals? Or is everyone happy to sit back and let others drive it, those who DON’T GET PAID??

Surely Auckland Council, Watercare or Veolia has someone qualified to coordinate this? You’re the experts – why are you making amateurs handle transmission-sized infrastructure pipes?

The $10M revenue awaits.