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News: tagged with "environmental health"

• Protect our waterways by becoming a stormwater superhero

  Posted: Wednesday, June 29, 2022 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: water, environmental health
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 29th June 2022 You are all probably familiar with the stormwater grates on the side of the road but how many of you stop to think about where the stormwater drains actually lead? Many people assume that whatever travels

• Lake Pegasus trial begins

  Posted: Thursday, June 16, 2022 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: water, environmental health, safety
  The Waimakariri District Council have been working closely with the developers of Pegasus to explore options to help manage seasonal algal bloom in the lake

• Every Wetland Counts: Sign the petition

  Posted: Wednesday, May 25, 2022 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: campaign, environment, environmental health, biodiversity
  Wetlands are climate heroes. They can store large amounts of carbon and help keep us safe from floods and storm surges

• Alternate sites for organics processing plant need more investigation

  Posted: Thursday, April 28, 2022 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: environmental health, waste, management
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 28th April 2022 Christchurch City Council has agreed in principle that it will relocate the organics processing plant in Bromley to an alternative location

• Aeration components arriving at Christchurch Wastewater Treatment Plant

  Posted: Wednesday, February 16, 2022 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: recovery, waste, services, environmental health
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 15th February 2022 Aeration components from around the world are arriving at the Christchurch Wastewater Treatment Plant, as the Christchurch City Council starts implementing its medium-term plan to minimise odours from

• Council working to reduce smell from fire-damaged plant

  Posted: Thursday, November 4, 2021 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: waste, services, environmental health
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 4th November 2021 Christchurch City Council is working to install a sprinkler system over the smouldering trickling filters at the fire-damaged wastewater treatment plant to help extinguish hot spots and reduce the smel

• Work on disused landfills underway

  Posted: Tuesday, September 14, 2021 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: recovery, waste, environmental health
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 14th September 2021 Remediation of a former landfill site in Bexley is underway and plans to remediate another four at Le Bons Bay, Onuku, Barrys Bay and the Burwood Resource Recovery Park are being developed

• Cobble clusters create new hideaways for native fish

  Posted: Wednesday, May 19, 2021 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: biodiversity, environmental health, environment, water
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 18th May 2021 ‘Cobble clusters’ added to the Ōpāwaho Heathcote River are breathing life into the river by creating new habitats for native fish

• Call for young people to care for Christchurch rivers

  Posted: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 in: Resources and Information With tags: environmental health, conservation, water, young people, leadership
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 23rd September 2019 Young people from local schools and early learning centres are being called on to take action to create a healthy Ōpāwaho/Heathcote River

• Brilliant new enviro-tech camp initiative for kids

  Posted: Wednesday, June 19, 2019 in: Resources and Information With tags: environmental health, technology, children, young people
  A prominent Kiwi businessman has set up New Zealand’s first ever enviro-tech camp at Raglan - south of Auckland. Vaughan Fergusson is the founder of New Zealand’s high-growth tech success story Vend and founder of OMGTech!

• Annual groundwater quality survey shows little change

  Posted: Wednesday, May 15, 2019 in: Resources and Information With tags: water, environmental health, survey, Report
  Environment Canterbury media release: 14th May 2019 Environment Canterbury released its annual groundwater quality survey for 2018

• Release of Environment Aotearoa 2019

  Posted: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 in: Resources and Information With tags: Report, environment, environmental health
  The Ministry fo the Environment has released a report which provides an overview of the state of our environment, using five broad themes and presenting nine priority environmental issues

• Sea level rise report strengthens resolve

  Posted: Thursday, January 31, 2019 in: Resources and Information With tags: Climate Change, Report, environmental health
  Beehive media release: 31st January 2019 The Minister for Climate Change says Government recognises the challenges facing many on the frontline of coastal impacts from sea level rise

• Department of Conservation launches an app

  Posted: Thursday, May 1, 2014 in: Earthquake With tags: earthquake recovery, environment, environmental health, technology
  The ‘Imagine’ app is an initiative from the Department of Conservation in response to the Christchurch city earthquake rebuild