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When Council will NOT take action

Council Officers have the discretion to take no action or are unable to take action in the following circumstances where:

  • the surface water is natural run‐off from the property or properties above due to the topography and is not redirected in any manner.
  • in some instances where surface water is flowing down or across existing hard surface areas such as driveways, tennis courts, concrete slabs, or paved areas.
  • the location of a dwelling or outbuilding impacts on surface run‐off.
  • surface water run‐off occurs only in periods of exceptionally heavy rain.
  • surface water is a result of overflows from stormwater absorption pits where contours of land and lack of access prevent direct connection of a building’s roof water to the council’s stormwater drainage system.
  • the run‐off from new development work that is the subject of a development consent or complying development and has been constructed in accordance with that consent.
  • the drainage problem involves discharges from defective or blocked private inter‐allotment drainage easement infrastructure e.g., pipes and drainage pits.