Wanted: A shed. Big enough for boats, vessel quarantine facilities, oil spill equipment, bikes, trailers, kayaks, monitoring buoys, furniture, traps, poisons, events equipment, civil defence emergency gear, hydrology, air quality and farm dairy effluent equipment and various tools.
Northland Regional Council's field work, and associated equipment, has increased substantially in recent years and outgrown a sub-leased facility on Robert St.
Tenders are to be called for the development of a new central storage facility in Whangarei's industrial area to house the wide array of equipment.
Chairman Bill Shepherd said the council's equipment was scattered over several sites, including its Water St head office, the Robert St facility and a storage shed in the Lower Port Rd area, the latter on a short-term lease and currently for sale.
Sometimes, extra space must be leased short-term to store pest traps and equipment.