Types of Incident

Of the 956 incidents reported to the Council in 2008-09, the most common type of incident related to burning or smoke nuisance - 228 incidents in total. Other frequently recorded incidents included odour nuisance (56 incidents), sewage in inland waters (51 events) and earthworks and vegetation clearance (41 events).

Photo: Incidents are not always man-made – ‘scum' on the water in the Bay of Islands was found to be a natural product of mangrove swamp carried by the outgoing tide