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Business units Environment Canterbury operates four Business Units for service activities within the organisation. These service units, Laboratory, L ..

Canterbury Emergency Management Office The Civil Defence department coordinates the Canterbury Civil Defence Emergency Management Group, which is a partnership of local auth ..

Christchurch Laboratory If you are unsure whether the water is safe to drink, swim in or whether you need to get any other water quality analyses done, you ca ..

Clean Heat The Clean Heat department manages Environment Canterbury's Clean Heat Project. This project provides financial assistance to help home ..

Communications and Marketing The Communications and Marketing section provides communications, marketing and media advice to staff, provides direction and oversigh ..

Community Resilience Unit The Community Resilience Unit is focused on identifying the council’s future role in building community resilience in the event of eme ..

Compliance Enforcement One of the ways Environment Canterbury manages the natural resources of the region is to ensure that policies and plans are being adhe ..

Consents Review The Resource Consents Review department is responsible for reviewing the conditions of resource consents in the Canterbury region to e ..

Consents Processing The Consents Processing section are responsible for processing resource consent applications in adherance with the Resource Management ..

Environmental Monitoring Groundwater Our section is part of the Investigations and Monitoring Group and we deliver services focusing on groundwater quality and quantity (t ..

Environmental Quality and Hazards The Environmental Quality and Hazards Section provides technical information and advice in the areas of air quality, water quality, ha ..

Finance The Finance Section’s responsibilities include managing transaction processing, maintaining records of Environment Canterbury’s resour ..

River Engineering The primary responsibility of the River Engineering section is to minimise and prevent damage within the region by floods and erosion. ..

Pests & biodiversity The Pests and Biodiversity portfolio is focused on protecting significant biodiversity assets and limiting the impact of pests on prod ..

Regional Policy and Effectiveness The Regional Policy and Effectiveness Section is a small section in the Regional Programmes Directorate that provides general policy s ..

Secretariat The Secretariat Section is the officer team that provides democracy services for Environment Canterbury. The Secretariat is responsibl ..

Transport Planning The Transport Planning section is responsible for ensuring that the Council complies with its statutory transport responsibilities, wh ..