Morrinsville
stormwater upgrade
What has increased
More frequent and severe weather events are impacting our communities and underlining the importance and urgency of acting now.
Severe weather events in recent years have resulted in flooding in Morrinsville – particularly in the CBD. This has a significant impact on our business community, as well as locals going about their day-to-day lives.
Why are we proposing to increase funding?
The increase in flooding events and likelihood of future ones means we can’t afford to continue to defer stormwater upgrades in Morrinsville. We’re proposing to do $1.5 million worth of improvements in the Morrinsville CBD in year one. We’re also planning to improve our planning and modelling of stormwater in Matamata and Te Aroha to inform future works. We’re not seeking feedback on this as we believe it is work we MUST do for the safety of people and property – it’s in this document for transparency because we think it’s important that people understand the key projects that are driving up our costs.
We’re proposing to do $1.5 million worth of improvements in the Morrinsville CBD in year one. We’re also planning to improve our planning and modelling of stormwater in Matamata and Te Aroha to inform future works.
Standard of service this would provide:
Accelerating improvements to work towards achieving the standard we agreed with the community.
Impact on debt:
$1.9m following completion in 2025/26.
Average additional cost per year:
$161,000 following completion in 2025/26.
Average additional cost per property connected to stormwater per year:
$19.46 more per year.
We had previously budgeted $100,000 per year for minor stormwater upgrades across the district.
Standard of service this would provide:
Improvements towards achieving the standard we agreed with the community.
Impact on debt:
$1.1m after 10 years.
Average additional operating costs:
$26,000 over 10 years.
Average additional operating costs per property per year:
$1.06 over 10 years.
Other projects that have increased
Resource recovery centres
Separating our waste streams (e.g. e-waste, batteries, green waste, food waste, hazardous goods) – keeping these things out of landfill, is good for our environment and for our climate.
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Waste water treatment plant upgrades
We own and operate five wastewater treatment plants that take sewage and wastewater from your home and clean/treat it before putting it back in the environment.
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Matamata Stadium
We made a commitment in 2018 to Matamata Futures Trust to provide $2 million towards a new indoor stadium for the community, located at Matamata College.
