A planned court appearance next week regarding the Hawke's Bay Regional Council's prosecution of the CHB District Council over wastewater exceedances has been adjourned until March.
CHB District Council chief executive John Freeman said the two councils agreed that the Monday, February 13 fixture at the Waipukurau District Court was too soon to start proceedings, and more time was needed for information gathering.
"We are still looking at all the information and the lawyers are working together," he said.
Last November the regional council laid three charges against the CHB District Council for breaching its resource consent conditions at the wastewater treatment plants in Waipukurau and Waipawa.
Those resource consents allow for a certain number of exceedances of contaminant discharges during a 12-month period.