A significant step in the multi-million dollar wastewater pipeline project will take place today when the 700 metre length of pipe is floated across the Tauranga Harbour.

Downer workers are this morning preparing the final length of pipeline next to State Highway 29 at Matapihi Peninsula ready to be floated at high tide.

The length of pipeline has been welded together ready for floating. Photo: File.

The pipeline will then be launched into the harbour and floated across to Memorial Park where it will be pulled up between Humpty Dumpty and the playground.

It will then be pulled through the tunnel that has been drilled between Memorial Park and Graham Park.

The pipe is part of the Judea Link project that will connect the wastewater system between Judea and Memorial Park.

The Southern Pipeline is a sewage project that will transfer wastewater from Tauriko through to the Te Maunga Wastewater Treatment Plant in Mount Maunganui. It is required to relieve pressure on the current wastewater system, especially the existing Judea to Chapel Street trunk main.