Service Reviews | Environmental

Increasing frequency/severity of extreme weather events, carbon emission reduction, declining landfill capacity, resource recovery and reuse, energy conservation, landcare, waterways management, groundwater salinity, conservation, hazardous waste treatment/management, water consumption/conservation.

FACTOR	POTENTIAL IMPACT ON SERVICE DELIVERY
Adverse weather conditions	Increase flood/drought events, disrupting planned work
Increasing emergency response	Priority events
Requirement to improve assets to increase resilience	Driving an increase in asset replacement and updates
Expectation of recycling	New services such as kerbside FOGO collections, e-waste processing, resource recovery
Reducing access to landfill sites	Pressure to divert solid waste from landfill
Coastal erosion	Expanding demand for sand replenishment, storm walls and environmental interventions
Rise in storm surge event frequency/severity	Funding and managing storm water, flood management, flood water pumping stations