Engineering lifelines groups

Engineering lifelines are the essential utility systems that serve communities - water supply, transportation (road, rail, sea and air), electricity and gas supply, communication networks (telephone, television, cable and radio) and sewerage or wastewater.

Lifelines groups are voluntary associations of utility companies that work to reduce the vulnerability of their systems to natural hazards and improve performance during and after a disaster.

Power transforrmers after the 1987 Edgecumbe earthquake (CAE)

Greater Wellington participates in both lifelines groups in the region - the Wellington Lifelines Group (WeLG) and the Wairarapa Engineering Lifelines Association (WELA).