Stormwater Strategy 2004 for North Shore City

This strategy, adopted in April 2004, is a working document which provides the direction for stormwater management in North Shore City. It will be reviewed to incorporate your feedback.

Objectives

• Minimise harmful effects of overland flow and flooding.
• Reduce sediment discharges into the environment.
• Protect and enhance stream water quality and amenity.
• Reduce the amount of water-borne contaminants getting into our estuaries and steams, and onto our beaches.
• Ensure appropriate and effective stormwater management as far as practicable, taking into account long-term costs and sustainability.

Approach

• Shift focus from the provision of stormwater pipes to the management of stormwater and its effects.
• Prevent, rather than mitigate. Require stormwater mitigation to be included in new and re-developments rather than trying to solve the problems after the development has taken place.
• Promote an integrated approach to stormwater management, between council and community.
• Promote the use of sustainable solutions to stormwater management.
• Clearly define responsibilities, ie. public or private.
• Develop new policies and methods to assist in stormwater management.

Benefits

• Helps to protect and enhance environment, and reduce nuisance caused by stormwater.
  Implications
• Requires the development of new stormwater policies and methods. (see below).

Stormwater Strategy 2004 for North Shore City PDF (249KB)
Council report: Works and Environment Committee April 6, 2004. PDF (79KB)
Resolution: Works and Environment Committee April 9, 2004. PDF (12KB)