Working with landowners in the Bay of Plenty for a better

Good decision making starts with access to good data. By continually investing in a robust environmental monitoring network, we can help you keep an eye on what’s happening above and below. Together, we can help your neighbourhood, community and region to become more resilient.

is information plays a key role in helping them plan and respond to their communities.

We’ll also have our ood monitoring team out in the eld. It’s their job to be the eyes and ears on the ground, checking ood defences (such as such as stopbanks and oodwalls), monitoring river levels, ows and rainfall, and reporting back to the Flood Room. Meanwhile, the operations team will be doing the physical mahi of clearing debris from waterways and pump station inlets, and setting up mobile pumps in badly a ected areas for landowner properties within a river scheme.

analysis and future planning).

One of the main ways Bay of Plenty Regional Council uses this data is through their Flood Room. When there is serious weather, the team in the Flood Room will be monitoring the situation and gathering real-time data, which we then provide to other agencies (such as local councils and Waka Kotahi).

Key data council collects is publicly accessible at any time, as well as detailed data that we’ve collected over the years, in our Environmental Data Portal. You can nd this on our website at boprc.govt.nz/data

If the weather events of the past (even as recent as this year) have taught us anything, it’s that mother nature is unpredictable, but we do everything we can to prepare for what’s to come and support the community to prepare as well.