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• River Engineering
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Our Departments 

Business units Environment Canterbury operates 4 business units for service activities within the organisation. These service units, Laboratory, Lega ..

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 adherence with the Resource Management ..

Customer Services Details of our Customer Services department can be found in the Services section of the website. ..

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, land and coastal ..

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

Natural Resources Policy The Natural Resources Policy Section comprises five senior planners (Cathie Brumley, Raymond Ford, Malcolm Miller, Anna Veltman, Natas ..

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 ..

Resource Care The Resource Care team at Environment Canterbury works with landowner and community groups to improve the health of Canterbury’s envir ..

Timaru Office The Timaru office contains staff from most sections of Environment Canterbury. ..

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