Closed for Summer the Papatowai camping ground
The Papatowai camping ground, 24km southwest of Owaka. It has become a victim of its own success with soaring visitor numbers testing its infrastructure with safely dispose of sewage.
Doc is a national government where to send them a proposal to those who develop and manage the camping ground once the lease expires on November 1. Ken Stewart, Otago conservancy acting community relations manager said Doc will ensure that the site development will retained the concept within “a basic Kiwi Camping experience”.
To overhaul the camping ground’s waste systems would be prepare the proposals from the operators and carry out the other development. Then proceed the process for a lease for the camping ground, which is a Doc managed recreation reserve. The Doc acknowledge the facilities which are not designed for the level of use, which is built in the 1980’s. The camp had received at peak periods recently.
The camp will be closed this summer until the new lease is issued. But it depends on an acceptable proposal to reopen the camp, whether the Minister of Conservation or the Department of Conservative agrees to grant a lease on terms acceptable to the successful proposer, and how long it would take the camp’s facilities up to the necessary standards.
The camp site has already a garages and garden, three bedroom house, ablution block, kitchen, power points, tent sites, barbecue and other facilities. The closing of proposals for upgrading and managing the camp is on October 8.
