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Assessment Shows Little Gravel Build Up In Clutha River
Wednesday, 9 July 2025, 9:42 am | Otago Regional Council
Otago Regional Council commissioned NIWA (now Earth Sciences New Zealand) to undertake an assessment of the river morphology – the shape of the river channel and how it has changed through time. More >>
New Form Sends Your Pest Sightings Direct To ORC’s Biosecurity Team
Tuesday, 8 July 2025, 9:34 am | Otago Regional Council
Priority pests are a significant environmental concern that have either not yet established, or not widely established and have the potential to cause substantial harm, such as Moth plant or the Freshwater Gold Clam. More >>
Coastal Survey Of Molyneux Bay Starts Shortly – ORC
Monday, 30 June 2025, 9:35 am | Otago Regional Council
ORC’s Natural Hazards Analyst, Julion [JULION] Wright, says the survey is to determine the current dimensions of the coastal Clutha “sand wedge” deposit, which ultimately spills river sediment into the Southern Ocean. More >>
ORC Monitoring Closely As Heavy Rain Hits Eastern Otago With Snow Inland
Saturday, 28 June 2025, 2:06 pm | Otago Regional Council
Coastal Dunedin bore the brunt of rainfall overnight – approximately 25-50mm, with other parts of Otago getting 20-50mm. Rainfall has eased in North Otago but Dunedin could see a further 20-30mm and 30-40mm for Clutha. More >>
Caution Over Worsening Weather Conditions – ORC
Friday, 27 June 2025, 6:00 pm | Otago Regional Council
Metservice upgrade Otago snow/rain warnings More >>
Free Buses For Rugby Test Match – ORC
Friday, 27 June 2025, 4:10 pm | Otago Regional Council
Fans travelling to the game on any of ORC’s Orbus bus services must show their match tickets to the driver to get free travel – which is valid for two hours before and about one hour after the match. More >>
New $2m Large-Scale Environmental Fund Endorsed By ORC
Thursday, 26 June 2025, 10:46 am | Otago Regional Council
The $2 million per-year fund will initially be funded from Council reserves and comes into effect from 1 July 2025. The new fund is separate from the ORC’s annual ECO Fund. More >>
Children’s Bus Fares Being Re-Introduced
Wednesday, 25 June 2025, 9:29 pm | Otago Regional Council
Councillors agreed to write to the Minister of Transport, Minister of Education and Associate Minister of Education to express concern about the unintended consequences of raising child fares to meet private share which could potentially affect school ... More >>
Otago Regional Council Adopts Annual Plan – 5.5% Rates Increase
Wednesday, 25 June 2025, 2:46 pm | Otago Regional Council
ORC Chairperson Gretchen Robertson says contributing to the less than forecast rates increase were cuts to some planned public transport upgrades, reprioritisation of environmental implementation funding, reduced inflation costs and work to gain efficiencies. More >>
ORC To Consider Public Transport Changes
Monday, 23 June 2025, 11:02 am | Otago Regional Council
The decisions are a result of ORC’s review of the Otago Regional Public Transport Plan (RPTP). The RPTP attracted 549 public submissions, with hearings held in May this year. More >>
Majority Of 53 Climate Change Actions ‘On Track’ – ORC
Monday, 23 June 2025, 9:09 am | Otago Regional Council
The report summarises the progress of actions of the ORC’s Climate Strategy and its effectiveness in coordinating and highlighting the climate-related work across ORC – covering the six months since it was adopted by ORC, in December 2024. More >>
Orbus On Demand: A New Electric Rideshare Service Debuting In Mosgiel
Wednesday, 11 June 2025, 7:41 pm | Otago Regional Council
The service is replacing the Mosgiel loop service (Routes 80 and 81), which ends at 6pm on Friday, 27 June. The new on demand bus service will run weekdays from 8am to 6pm. More >>
Environment Court Decision Following ORC Application For Enforcement Order
Tuesday, 10 June 2025, 10:02 am | Otago Regional Council
ORC’s Chief Executive Richard Saunders welcomed delivery of the decision and Enforcement Orders, ultimately to “avoid, remedy and/or mitigate adverse environmental effects” caused by operation of the QLDC-owned Shotover Wastewater Treatment Plant. More >>
Bus Route And Timetable Changes In Queenstown
Monday, 9 June 2025, 2:05 pm | Otago Regional Council
Cr Forbes says the updated routes fulfil some long-standing requests and will increase capacity where it’s needed while providing better journeys for passengers on these routes. More >>
New Report Maps Otago’s Exposure To Natural Hazards
Friday, 30 May 2025, 1:10 pm | Otago Regional Council
The Otago Region Natural Hazards Exposure Analysis is the region’s first comprehensive assessment of where people, buildings, and critical facilities may be situated in areas potentially affected by one or more natural hazard types. More >>
Air Quality Monitoring Expands As Seasonal Challenges Continue
Friday, 30 May 2025, 1:02 pm | Otago Regional Council
The annual report shows that while some areas still face winter air quality exceedances —particularly Alexandra, Arrowtown and Mosgiel — over 70% of days across monitored sites were classified as “Good” under the Ministry for the Environment’s Environmental ... More >>
Passenger Numbers Up, Revenue Down For ORC’s Public Transport
Friday, 30 May 2025, 12:49 pm | Otago Regional Council
Fare revenue in Dunedin for the three quarters was down 8% to $3.11 million while in Queenstown revenue for the same period declined 6% to $2.42 million. The Public Transport patronage and revenue data is being presented to ORC’s Public and Active More >>
Annual Moving Day Reminder For Southern Dairy Farmers
Thursday, 29 May 2025, 8:37 am | Otago Regional Council
Otago Regional Council’s Manager Environmental Implementation Libby Caldwell says effluent from stock trucks can put road users and adjacent waterways at risk. More >>
Middlemarch Engagement To Discuss Results Of Flood Hazard Assessment
Monday, 26 May 2025, 9:07 am | Otago Regional Council
ORC have undertaken analysis of the flood hazard in the Middlemarch area, which is being done in phases. Phase 1 was a study of the conveyance of March Creek through Middlemarch with a particular focus on the Taieri Gorge Railway culvert. This work ... More >>
Annual Winter Farm Flyovers Begin Shortly
Friday, 23 May 2025, 9:44 am | Otago Regional Council
Otago Regional Council’s annual winter farm flyovers are set to begin within the next three weeks, with a focus on land disturbance activities. As with previous years, the flyovers will be looking at forestry and any machinery working in or around streams, ... More >>
