Regional Council is required to implement plans that set out how it is going to ensure flood defences are managed well, now and into the future. We do this through the Rivers and Drainage Asset Management Plan (AMP).
The AMP outlines the 50-year ‘lifecycle’ of a specific Regional Council activity. In most cases, this is a mix of capital (building new assets or enhancing existing assets) and operations and maintenance (operating and maintaining the assets through their lifespan), and how this is collectively managed to meet legislative requirements and agreed levels of service to a community.
AMPs inform Regional Council’s Long Term Plan (LTP), a 10-year plan that is reviewed every three years with the community and updated annually. The annual budget expression of the LTP, or Annual Plan, outlines what activities will be delivered over the period 1 July - 30 June and how they will be funded, for example through rates or borrowings.
The LTP and the Rivers and Drainage AMP was updated in 2024. You can read the executive summary document and the full AMP here.