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Keeping Track of Infringements

The NCS Sundry Infringements system records and automates the processing of infringements issued by councils for misdemeanours under the Resource Management Act, Litter Act and various bylaws such as parking and dog registrations.

Lakes Environmental Ltd is owned by, and manages the regulatory enforcement functions of, the Queenstown Lakes District Council. Queenstown has the fast growing set of communities in New Zealand and Lakes Environmental, with a staff of 18, is one of this country’s largest enforcement teams. Six planners are assigned to Resource Management Act monitoring, and every resource consent is checked for compliance, from a residential garage to major commercial buildings.

Lakes Environmental issues up to 1,500 offence notices each month. Fines for infringements range from $12 for a parking fine to $2,000 for breaches of the Building Act.

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Water is Precious

An increasing number of local authorities are installing water meters on domestic connections as water conservation becomes an international issue. Carterton District Council has almost completed the mission of installing around 2,140 meters and bedding in its water billing system.

NCS’s Gordon Hills says electronically loading data from spreadsheets to the billing system was reasonably straightforward, but it is the work required to generate accurate data which needs careful attention.

Carterton – New Zealand’s daffodil capital – started installing the meters about a year ago along with the task of matching each meter serial number to the correct property address and valuation number. The town was divided into eight rounds, with each route mapped out to provide the most efficient system for the meter reader to follow, using a MetersMobile handheld device to record water use in a systematic order.

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