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Thursday, 23 February 2012
Auditors from the Office of the Auditor General gave the Waimakariri District Council’s Draft Ten Year Plan a clean bill of health at Tuesday’s Council meeting with an ‘unqualified opinion’.
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Friday, 17 February 2012
Following further engineering consultation, the Waimakariri District Council will be increasing the drop zone area around the Lambert Building at 174 High Street from 7 am this Saturday 18 February.
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Friday, 17 February 2012
The Waimakariri District Council’s Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) exercise for the Waimakariri Emergency Response Team NZRT12 will run from this evening through to approximately midday on Saturday.
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Wednesday, 15 February 2012
HEB Construction, a Mount Maunganui based construction firm, has been selected through tender by the Waimakariri District Council to complete the replacement of the Waimakariri Gorge Bridge’s decking. The work will involve replacement of the deteriorating deck with a combination of pre-cast concrete deck units and new timber baulk units.
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Friday, 10 February 2012
Key milestones for the Waimakariri District Council’s Earthquake Recovery Programme during 2012 were recently confirmed by the Council’s Earthquake Recovery Committee.
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Friday, 10 February 2012
The Waimakariri District Council will close the Lambert Building at 174 High Street in Rangiora as from 7 am tomorrow.
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Wednesday, 8 February 2012
On Friday 17 and Saturday 18 February, the Waimakariri District Council is holding a civil defence Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) exercise to provide a realistic multi-agency training opportunity for the Waimakariri Emergency Response Team, NZRT12.
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Friday, 3 February 2012
Information contained in the GNS Science presentation delivered to Waimakariri District Council late yesterday by GNS scientist Kelvin Berryman has been made public today by Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Minister Gerry Brownlee.
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Thursday, 2 February 2012
Following engineering inspections funded by the Waimakariri District Council, approximately 30 buildings in the District have been identified as “earthquake-prone” as they are less than 33 percent of the new building standards as required by the Building Code.
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Thursday, 2 February 2012
As part of its Ten Year Plan budget deliberations, the Waimakariri District Council proposes to alleviate the impact on ratepayers of the costs of earthquake recovery in the District by limiting rate rises to an average five per cent, after taking projected growth into account, for the first three years.