{"id":12932,"date":"2025-03-05T08:04:20","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T19:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=12932"},"modified":"2025-03-05T08:04:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T19:04:20","slug":"wellington-water-investigations-cost-330000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=12932","title":{"rendered":"Wellington Water investigations cost $330,000"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wellington Water has revealed the price tag for two damning reports into the company was more than $300,000.<\/p>\n

On Monday the summaries of two investigations by consultancy firms AECOM and Deloitte were made public.<\/p>\n

They found the capital’s ratepayers were paying nearly three times more for unplanned water repairs than in other parts of the country.<\/p>\n

The investigations also identified<\/a>\u00a0structual issues with oversight of its accounts, and an incident of alleged fraud which related to a worker who was no longer at the company.<\/p>\n

Police confirmed to RNZ they received a report which related to alleged fraud matters late last year, which would be assessed.<\/p>\n

RNZ can reveal Wellington Water paid $332,000 for the AECOM and Deloitte reports.<\/p>\n

Wellington Water chief executive Pat Dougherty said the investigations and review process spanned months and included interviews with 38 staff members.<\/p>\n

“This investment has already paid dividends.<\/p>\n

“It’s identified a lack of oversight, assurance, and weak financial processes and controls around how we manage our consultants and contractors, which opens us up to risks around fraud.”<\/p>\n

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Wellington Water has revealed the price tag for two damning reports into the company was more than $300,000. On Monday the summaries of two investigations by consultancy firms AECOM and Deloitte were made public. They found the capital’s ratepayers were paying nearly three times more for unplanned water repairs than in other parts of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":12933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12934,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12932\/revisions\/12934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}