A section of Wānaka-Luggate Highway (SH84) will be closed to traffic overnight next week while crews lay a pipe across the main road.

The new water pipeline is part of a $6.4M water upgrade project by Queenstown Lakes District Council (QLDC) to improve the drinking water supply and infrastructure in western Wānaka.

The pipe, which has already been installed along Golf Course Road and Macpherson Street, will be laid across the State Highway before it continues up Anderson Road.

Contractors will be working overnight to complete this work from 8pm – 6am, Monday September 5 through to the morning of Friday September 9.

During this time the Wānaka-Luggate Highway will be closed from the Anderson Road roundabout through to Sir Tim Wallis Drive. A detour will be sign-posted via Sir Tim Wallis Drive and Ballantyne Road.

The highway will be open during the daytime with traffic management in place.

Progress with the project has resulted in pipe laying completed along Golf Course Road, Ballantyne Road and Macpherson Street, with minor works still required to connect the pipe, and road reinstatement still to be done on Macpherson Street.

The water upgrade includes a new pump station on Wānaka-Mount Aspiring Road at the corner of Bills Way. The walls and roof slab of the pump station have been constructed and crews are currently working to install the internal pipework.

The pipeline is expected to be complete by November and the pump station by Christmas this year.

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