Community and Self-Managed Water Supply
Many of the smaller communities and individual residences in our district have their own private self-managed water systems, collection tanks or stream water supplies.
During significant weather events these systems/supplies can be comprised by flooding and/or slit. This can be due to changes in the water supply, contamination of stored water, damage to pipes, tanks, pumps, or through loss of power supply.
Taumata Arowai has released several Information Pamphlets that these communities and residents may find useful as they detail what actions they could take following a weather event. These can be found in the links below.
Our Council is not responsible for the operation, control or management of these private water systems.
Community drinking water supplies assessment
Our Council has completed an assessment of the community drinking water service as per Section 125 of the Local Government Act 2002. Key points are:
- Councils must meet the Local Government Act 2002 (LGA 2002). This Act places a requirement on local authorities to give effect to the purpose of the LGA 2002 stated under Section 10. This purpose being “(a) to enable democratic local decision-making and action by, and on behalf of, communities; and (b) to promote the social, economic, environmental, and cultural well-being of communities in the present and for the future”.
- To fulfil this purpose of “social, economic, environmental, and cultural well-being of communities” the Local Government Act 2002 imposes a number of requirements on local authorities. One such requirement is stated under Section 125 – Requirement to assess drinking water services. This section requires the “territorial authority to inform itself about the access that each community in its district has to drinking water services in accordance with Section 125”.
- The report below details the findings of this LGA Section 125 assessment and addresses how the information was acquired, the limitations of the assessment and the overall results and findings.
Under Section 126 on completion of an assessment of a community drinking water service, a territorial authority must make the assessment available to the public on an Internet site maintained by or on behalf of the territorial authority.