Though it is known as a modellers' pond, the pond serves an infrastructure purpose as a stormwater detention site. The trial to clean-up the Modeller's Pond may end up costing less than expected. READ MORE:* Council approves five more months of modellers pond clean-up trial* Modellers' Pond clean-up trial looking positive* A model community: the people behind the PondCommittee chair Stuart Walker said that the Modellers Pond working group was "comfortable" with where the trial was currently. Matt Lawrey Algal mats floating on top of the pond part-way through the clean-up trial, in December last year. He also said it was unfortunate that the pond was known as the Modellers Pond, as that downplayed the actual infrastructural use of the pond.

Source: Stuff May 24, 2019 16:52 UTC