File ref: IRC-4450
08 March 2023
Carl Wiggin
Via FYI website
Kia ora Carl,
Cost of water infrastructure
Thank you for your request made under the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987
(the Act), received on 17 February 2023. You requested the fol owing information:
1. Please provide the total spending on water infrastructure (maintenance and repair and upgrade)
for the last three years. Costs per year if possible.
2. Also can you provide the total number of rate payers? This is to allow a calculation of cost per rate
payer.
Wellington City Council has granted
your request for information. Please see the below response.
Please note that this excludes depreciation and any allocated costs, this is only the costs invoiced by
Wellington Water Ltd for operating, maintaining, renewing, and upgrading the city's three waters network.
Stimulus funding values are government funded and not part of the Long-Term Plan, nor does it have a
relationship with rates.
FY20
FY21
FY22
OPEX (Operating costs, maintenance
and repair)
45,130,228
34,532,832
35,893,310
Stimulus funding
4,729,305
12,839,403
$45,130,228
$39,262,137
$48,732,713
CAPEX (renewing and upgrading the
city's three waters networks)
47,097,006
52,520,891
61,995,288
Stimulus Funding
2,379,511
251,780
$47,097,006
$54,900,402
$62,247,068
We do not hold a record of the number of rate payers, only the number of accounts. The number of rating
assessments is 81,209 however some accounts will have more than one ratepayer. Information around the
profile of Wellington City population is available in our Annual Report:
Wellington City Council Annual Report 2021/2022 - Volume 1
Please note, we may release our response to your request. If you have any questions, please feel free to
contact me.
Kind regards
Claudia Holgate
Senior Advisor, Official Information