More info on water at Kiwiburn:
The tanks and main water line are now in place. The distribution system on the Paddock is still to be installed during the event build period over the next couple of weeks.
Water is a precious resource so a filling station for DRINKING WATER ONLY will be situated near Depot and only operating similar hours to fill containers of up to 20 litres per person. We ask that people don’t take water for showers or washing their bits (there is a river after all, though keep away from soap).
Ensure you still bring your personal water bottles and enough water for your trip and the gate queue.
Please treat this precious water with respect and also ensure that grey water wastage on the Paddock is kept to a minimum!
Theme Camps can fill their large tanks via very long hoses during the build period in the few days prior to the Burn. Register to fill your containment at site office when you first arrive on site, we operate a 1st come 1st serve policy. There will be 5 taps operating at 70 liters a minute.
When the last EFP and Facebook article on this subject said: “Please also be assured that none of this water will be taken from the river either” we were totally lying (though not intentionally, we swear. Just an internal misunderstanding how it all works). The inlet to our system is indeed from one of the biggest rural supply schemes in Aotearoa whose consented take is from the Rangitikei River. While we are also keen to collect rain water, this requires separate infrastructure to funnel water, i.e. roofs, which we do not have at present.
It has chlorine added to a non potable standard before it hits our storage tanks from which it runs back down the hill in alkathene pipes and fed through a 20 micron filter, a 5 micron carbon filter and an industrial UV steriliser. SCIENCE!
