The Southland District Council hopes a community working group will be enough to appease those opposing the Te Anau Wastewater Scheme.
The project, which has just received consent from Environment Southland, will see treated waste water sprayed onto farm land near the airport, an idea that hasn't proved popular with locals.
CEO Steve Ruru says the consent came on the condition the council creates a community liaison group to get feedback about the project's performance.
"I think it would be well received by them, because that community dialogue is fundamentally important in the way we do our business."
Ruru says the new scheme is much better than the alternative, where the discharge consent had run out.
"Lake Te Anau is in the middle of the Fiordland National Park, an incredibly environmentally important waterway and we really did need to find an appropriate disposal option."
Fiordland Sewage Options, a 700-member group opposing the scheme, is already vowing to appeal the discharge permits.
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