Dunedin city councillors will meet within the next month to discuss three options for Dunedin's planned $67 million secondary treatment sewage plant, with the preferred option expected to be named by July.
Councillors were given a progress report on the project in a public-excluded section of the Dunedin City Council's infrastructure services committee meeting on Monday.
Committee chairman Cr Andrew Noone said yesterday members of a working party briefed councillors on three options for the city's planned secondary treatment plant, including details of capital and operating costs and each option's environmental footprint.
Following a workshop to discuss the options, due to be held in the next month, councillors would select a preferred option - expected by July 1 - before expressions of interest were called for, Cr Noone said.
Monday's meeting was held in private because of the commercial sensitivity of the information being discussed, but afterwards Cr Noone said the cost was expected to remain within the "ball park" of the project's $67 million budget, regardless of the option selected.
The secondary treatment plant remained on schedule for construction to be completed by September 2011 - when the council's resource consent for the project had to be acted upon - and Cr Noone said there was "certainly not" any discussion at Monday's meeting about delaying stage two.
"We are really just getting to the stage of clarifying an option, and that is well down the track," he said.
