REMEMBER WHAT WE WANTED, CHRISTCHURCH?

In the aftermath of the Canterbury earthquakes, those involved in developing the Central City Rebuild Plan sought the public’s feedback and views on what they wanted for the Central City. These ideas were gathered through the Share an Idea campaign. By the end of the analysis process in 2011, 105,991 ideas had been coded.

This is what we wanted regarding water use in the city. What happened?

Water

Grey water and stormwater collection systems and re-use should be incorporated into new building design. 

• Make use of grey water.
• “Grey-water functions as compulsory for all new high-density buildings in the CBD.”
• “Think more than Central City. All new houses should have solar water heating; & rainwater and/or greywater tanks for toilet and garden use.”
• “Grey-water can be used and black water further broken down.”
• “Spacious with balcony and roof garden everywhere using recycle waste water.”
• “I want each house to have a minimum of a 1000-litre drinking water tank, a 30,000-litre tank for garden use, shared between 2 or 3 houses.”
  
  
• Make use of stormwater and rainwater.
• “Small rain-gardens behind the kerb to capture some stormwater and provide ‘green pockets’.”
• “Should also contain gardens of some sort so that when it rains then excess water would drain through the garden and can be stored to irrigate those gardens when needed, but to also be used to fill toilets cisterns, etc…”
• “Allow people to store rainwater – this will reduce the peaks of flooding and droughts.”
• “Water collected from roofs for garden watering and green lawns.”

SOURCE: http://www.ccc.govt.nz/assets/Documents/The-Council/Plans-Strategies-Policies-Bylaws/Plans/central-city/CentralCityPlanTechnicalAppendicesA-D.pdf#page=3