9 Sep 2024

What lies beneath, explaining how city sewerage works

From Nine To Noon, 11:45 am on 9 September 2024
A manhole cover

Photo: Bill McKay

Urban issues correspondent Bill McKay looks at one of our most vital - but overlooked - pieces of infrastructure: sewerage.

How do they work, where does responsibility for them begin and end and what happens if you're thinking of building on top of them? Could there be a better way to do sewerage?

Bill McKay is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of Auckland.

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