Safety and flood protection
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Quality lifestyle
- Plan to reduce the impacts of floods.
- Build and maintain agreed flood protection works, eg, stopbanks.
- Provide a consultancy service for land drainage schemes.
Prepared community
- Plan for emergency events.
- Inform people of the risks they face and how these can be managed.
- Operate the Wellington Civil Defence Emergency Management Group Emergency Operations Centre.
- Operate a flood warning system.
Healthy community
- Provide navigation aids in our harbours and a communications service for Wellington Harbour.
- Educate people about water safety and enforce maritime safety rules.
Healthy environment
Sense of place
- Enhance the environment along flood corridors.
- Clean-up oil spills in our harbours and coastal waters.
Key projects for 2008/09
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Activity: Flood protection
- Commence the Waiwhetu improvements programme
- Complete the Waingawa River scheme review
- Carry out $6.6 million of capital river works across the region, including commencing the Strand Park stopbank upgrade (Lower Hutt) and Waiohine River stopbank design (Wairarapa), and continue the Lower Wairarapa Valley Development Scheme stopbank improvement works
- Complete $4.0 million of river maintenance work on river schemes in the region, including the Hutt, Otaki, Waikanae and Ruamahanga rivers
- Collect survey data for flood hazard assessments in the Greytown and Masterton areas
Activity: Emergency management
- Review Inter-Agency Planning Committee arrangements
- Develop community psychology support arrangements for the recovery phase of an event
- Develop a “spontaneous” volunteer management system
- Plan and deliver Exercise Phoenix VI
- Review the Wellington Region Civil Defence Emergency Management Group Plan
Activity: Harbours management
- Provide navigation aids in our harbours and a communications service for Wellington Harbour
- Educate people about water safety and enforce maritime safety rules
- Clean-up oil spills in our harbours and coastal waters
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Download the Safety and flood protection (PDF, 224KB)section of the Annual Plan, which includes key projects, key changes, short-term goals and the funding breakdown.