Otago Regional Council
What's happening:
Rabbit Control Workshop
Learn about rabbit eradication management plans and methods of control. Monday 8 March 7-10pm at the Golden Gate Lodge, 6 Barry Avenue, Cromwell. For more information contact group manager regional services Jeff Donaldson on 0800 474 082.
Sir Peter Blake Trust Youth Environment Forum
Nominations are now being accepted for the youth environment forum in Wellington from 11 to 15 April. To apply send contact details and 300 word description of your interest in the environment to Council's Dunedin office by Wednesday 3 March 2010.
>> Read the media release
>> Download the forum flyer
ORC tsunami studies
Council in association with NIWA recently produced a major study into the tsunami risk for coastal Otago.
>> Tsunami modelling executive summary
>> ORC report - Tsunami hazard in Otago
The full report can be obtained from the ORC Dunedin office or via email request
Pest Management Strategy for Otago 2009
The Pest Management Strategy for Otago 2009 is now amended.
>> Read about the amended Pest Strategy
Clean Heat Clean Air Warm Home Assistance programme
The ORC Clean Heat Warm Home Assistance programme helps eligible homeowners pay for the cost of purchasing and installing insulation and ORC approved clean heating appliances such as heat pumps, pellet burners, flued gas and woodburners. The programme applies in the Airzone one towns - Alexandra, Clyde, Cromwell and Arrowtown and in Milton which is in Airzone two.
>> Read more on the Clean Heat Clean Air Warm Home Assistance programme
Proposed Plan Change 1B (Minimum Flows)
Plan Change 1B (Minimum Flows) to the Regional Plan: Water for Otago - Approved.
>> Read more about Plan Change 1B
Proposed Plan Change 1 (Harbourside) to the Regional Plan: Coast
Otago Regional Council has adopted, and the Minister of Conservation has approved, Plan Change 1 (Harbourside) to the Regional Plan: Coast for Otago, which is operative on 1 December 2009.
>> Read about the plan change
Proposed Plan Change 1C (Water Allocation and Use)
The Hearing Committee are now deliberating on Proposed Plan Change 1C (Water Allocation and Use).
>> Read more about Proposed Plan Change 1C
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