Environmental Quality and Hazards
The Environmental Quality and Hazards Section provides technical information and advice in the areas of air quality, land and coastal resources, hazardous wastes, contaminated sites, and natural hazards. Staff are involved in monitoring Canterbury’s environment in these areas and in making that information available in a way that can contribute to the maintenance and enhancement of environmental quality.
The section carries out both long-term monitoring programmes, designed for such things as identifying the current state of the environment and any trends that may be occurring, and shorter-term investigations relating to specific environmental quality issues.
Staff work closely with other parts of the organisation, providing technical advice on resource management issues and resource consent applications, and helping to evaluate the effectiveness of policy options.