Porirua City Council reviewed the Water Supply Bylaw and have made some changes to it.
We held a public consultation of this proposed change, which closed on 8 May, 2019.
What we have changed:
- We have removed a lot of the technical detail in the current bylaw. Much of this is in other laws and regulations like the Building Act and the Wellington Water Regional Standards, and it’s not helpful for it to repeated in our local bylaw.
- We’ve placed a simple but clear boundary around where water is supplied to.
- As our new District Plan and Growth Strategy come into effect we expect that the boundaries between our urban and rural areas will change.
- To allow rural homeowners to get access to clean and safe urban water we have proposed a new supply type called “Restricted Supply”.
- This will let a rural property take water from the urban network for their household use.
- We have simplified the language and definitions in the bylaw to make it easier to read.
You can check out the new Water Supply Bylaw
What about water meters?
We are not proposing any change to any new metered customers.
However we will be checking to make sure that all our industrial and commercial customers who are currently “Extraordinary Supply” customers (these are customers that are already paying for the volume of water they use) are all being correctly metered and read.
