Environmental Water Quality

Hutt City Council provides a recreational beach water quality monitoring and pollution incident response service to help in safeguard the health of the community and protect the environment.

Beach water quality is tested at popular harbour swimming beaches within the City. A response service, in conjunction with the Wellington Regional Council, is provided for pollution incidents.

Hutt City works to proactively prevent pollution through education and advice to industry and the community.

 

Environmental Water Quality Service Standards

We aim to achieve the following standards in the provision of environmental water quality services:

Environmental

• A 24 hour pollution response service
  
• Beach water quality testing undertaken weekly at popular harbour swimming beaches within the City during the summer months (December - February)

Courtesy

• Appropriate warning signage will be posted at any beach or waterway site where pollution poses a health, safety and/or environment risk
  
• In the event of a major risk posed by pollution, information for the public will be provided through the media in conjunction with the posting of appropriate warning signage at the affected beach or waterway.

Target Response Time

• Pollution incidents involving serious health/safety and/or environmental risk will be responded to within one hour.

 

You can help protect our environment by doing the following:

• Ensuring that you Reduce, Reuse and Recycle products/materials
  
• Purchasing environmentally friendly products
• Disposing of any waste in an environmentally friendly manner
• Not disposing of liquid waste into the stormwater drainage system. Any waste in the stormwater system will eventually end up in our streams, rivers or the sea, (stormwater pipes are connected the waterways).
• Contacting us if you are unsure as to the best way to dispose of wastes

By taking these precautions you can help to minimise future costs to ratepayers.