A new stormwater bylaw for Dunedin is on the cards after city councillors gave staff the go-ahead to start drafting one.
Acting water and waste services manager Laura McElhone told councillors at the infrastructure services committee meeting this week work on the council's integrated catchment management plans had revealed the council's provisions around controlling what went into stormwater were spread over several documents, making it difficult for residents to find.
Developing a new bylaw was a way of grouping in one place information about what people could let go into stormwater drains.
It would also emphasise the need to control contaminants at their source.
It would be some time before the bylaw was ready for public consultation, she said.
