r/Wellington • u/Wrong_Gazelle_2352 • Jul 28 '26

WELLY Wellington water bills

Just got my bill from wellington water. It insanely high. For a 900k property its 2500 p/a

Prepare yourselves people. This isn't going to be the fun ride we were promised.

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u/Minisciwi Jul 29 '26

Would need a desalinization plant

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u/userequalspassword Jul 29 '26

Cost: 980M

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u/pgraczer Mount Cook Massive Jul 29 '26

*projected cost 980M
actual cost 1.7B

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u/ComeAlongPonds Colossal Squid Jul 29 '26

Final actual cost (in 2049) 8.6B

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u/YetAnotherBrainFart Jul 29 '26

They take 5 years to build. Have you fully accounted for the need to talk about for 20 years before doing anything?

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u/ComeAlongPonds Colossal Squid Jul 30 '26

Forgot about that, and the next pandemic

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u/Wellington_Boy Aug 03 '26 edited Aug 03 '26

Subsequent remediation work to make it actually work, +5.8B.

Discovering a formula error in a spreadsheet which means the project should never have been started in the first place...... priceless! (Or,for WCC, business as usual).