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CAPACITY – WELLINGTON WATER MANAGEMENT LTD
Capacity manages water, stormwater and wastewater services on behalf of Wellington City Council and Hutt City Council and has operated as a stand alone business since April 2004. It was established to provide high quality, safe and environmentally sustainable services to shareholding councils and other customers. Capacity does not own the water, stormwater and wastewater assets, set policies or control rates or user charges. These roles remain with the reholding/ customer councils.
David Hill, Chief Executive, Capacity
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THE CANTERBURY REGIONAL LANDFILL - KATE VALLEY
In the 1990’s Canterbury’s councils discovered that the cost of developing new local landfills was too high to go it alone. All Canterbury councils formed a joint committee to work together on managing the region’s waste. The councils chose two private sector waste companies to work with to develop a single landfill for Canterbury. A commercial joint venture partnership known as Transwaste Canterbury Ltd was formed. This public/private partnership is one of the first in New Zealand and involves five councils, Christchurch City, Hurunui, Waimakariri, Selwyn and Ashburton Districts, and two private companies.
Denis O’Rourke, Former Chairman, Transwaste Canterbury Ltd
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NELSON REGIONAL SEWERAGE BUSINESS UNIT
The Nelson Regional Sewerage Scheme is a joint venture between Nelson City Council and the Tasman District Council. The scheme was proposed in the 1970’s to resolve environmental issues arising from a number of point source discharges of partially treated trade waste and effluent into the Waimea Estuary and eventually commissioned in 1983. The success of the business unit can be attributed to a combination of clear guidelines via a memorandum of understanding, good governance and innovative user contracts, specifically developed for the NRSBU and its five customers.
Michael Schruer, General Manager, Nelson Regional Sewerage Business Unit
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COMBINED TENDERING FOR ROADING ONTRACTS - HAURAKI, THAMES COROMANDEL DISTRICT COUNCIL
Hauraki District Council and Thames-Coromandel District Council utilized a co-ordinated procurement procedure for putting in place contracts for Roading Professional Services and Roading Physical Works. This enabled a larger and hence more attractive package of work to be offered to the market and was seen to provide potential for suppliers to offer economies of scale and rationalization of operations. The procedure made provision for each local authority to have its own contract and for the successful tenderers to be different for each contract if this resulted in the most favourable tender outcome for each local authority.
Gene Thomsen, Roading Manager, Hauraki District Council, Steve Bremner, Roading Manager, Thames Coromandel District Council
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