Greytown waste water system ‘failing to cope’ with bumper Wairarapa olive harvest

Operations manager Bill Hey at the Olive Press in Greytown, which has been hampered this season by waste-water discharge restrictions. PIERS FULLER/FAIRFAX NZ

Wairarapa olive growers are worried waste water restrictions at the region’s largest olive press could nibble into their profits from this year’s bumper harvest. The Olive Press, one of the country’s biggest, moved last year from Masterton to new, purpose-built premises in Greytown, close to south Wairarapa’s increasing numbers of olive growers.