Adaptive Risk Management

Strategies for Contaminated Land

James Corbett, Team Leader

Contaminated Land & Closed Landfills

A Century of Contamination!

Auckland Gas Company 1865 Nelson & Wyndham Streets.

1884 Freemans Bay 15,000m3 & 3,000m3 ‘gasometer’.

1902 Beaumont Street 5.2ha complex

1970’s Demolition

Harbour Bridge Construction 1959

Auckland Harbour 2004

Local Government

Legacy Auckland Regional Govt.

• 1 regional and 7 territorial councils

Auckland Council in transition

• 1 Unitary Council

Auckland Council of the future

• 1 Regional Plan

• 7 Territorial/City Plans

UNITARY PLAN

NES

Auckland Plan+30 yrs

Collaboration : Contaminated

Land Management

Land Management Operations

Land Contamination Specialists

Specification: Policies, Plans

Delivery: Enforcement, Services

Executive + Political

Auckland Council

Service Delivery

Operations (LCR) Regulatory (Regional Territorial)

Service Specification

Policy

(Spatial &

Unitary Plans)

Parks, Stormwater, Property, others

CCOs e.g. ACPL, WDA, AT

Challenge:World’sMost Liveable City

Meola Reef, Auckland Central

A Green Auckland !

•LCR Strategic Plans •Closed Landfills AMP

Mandate:manage risks~Council land

Mangere Railway

Workshops 1928-1992

Western side Wagon Shops,

Machine Shop, Blacksmiths

Shop, Reclaim, Powerhouse

and Stores.

Eastern side Structural

Shop, Trimming Shop,

Electroplating Shop and

Battery Shop, Car Shops No.

1 and 2, and the Woodmill.

ISSUES • Legacy of historic contamination (170 yrs)

• Widespread use of contaminated fill

• Limited pro-active investigation

• No region-wide programme to manage

• 10,000 sites

• Where to start?

Adaption via 3 Year Strategy

• Support vision

• Region-wide

consistency

• Centre of

Excellence

• K.I.S.S.

Risk Identification:

XRF Heavy Metal Scan

• historic homestead

•community activities

• lead & arsenic soil

contamination

Pilot region-wide programme

Best-practice standards

Managing risk:

• Enabling development

• Implement best-practice

standards Council-wide

• Input: policies & processes

• CSRF role / programme

• Information management

• Liaison with key stakeholders

• Promoting best-practice standards

• Providing access to Information

• Engaging decision-making processes

• Supporting good risk-based decisions

Communicating risk:

Radonich Park

• produce growing, childcare centres,

playing fields, RC car club

•industrial contamination/ ACM

• risk assessment on harvest

• coordinating with Parks regarding

future use and development

• Operational

• Key

stakeholder

relationships

• Information

management

Improvements and Efficiencies

Transformed living spaces...

That will be greener…

The Team

Marcus Herrmann

James Corbett Level 9

BJ Bauzon 8 Hereford St

Mark Crooks Freeman’s Bay

Jeff Davenport Auckland Central