To avoid delays, please ensure you have everything you need before you press apply.
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Information required for all domestic connections
- Property address: The legal address that complies with Auckland Council numbering.
- Lot and DP numbers, and Certificate of Title (CT), if property has a separate title. Find your CT on Auckland Council’s website. Enter your address, then select the Property Information tab.
- Property owner’s details.
- Onsite contact person, e.g. plumber or builder.
- Auckland Council building consent and resource consent numbers, if available. For information see Auckland Council.
- Stamped, approved site/drainage plans from Auckland Council showing the proposed water meter and wastewater connection point.
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Sample site plan
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Sample drainage plan
- For new dwellings: is the floor area less than 65 sqm? If so, the infrastructure growth charge (IGC) is reduced to two-thirds of the general rate. Learn more: IGCs
- Whether development contributions* for water/wastewater have been paid to Auckland Council or a previous authority. To ensure we don't double-charge our customers, it is helpful to know if you have already paid the council.
- *Until 2010, customers connecting to utility services may have paid a contribution to Auckland Council or other local body. Since then, customers have paid an infrastructure growth charge to Watercare.
- Any conditions that may affect the job, e.g. power cables, trees, roading restrictions.
Kumeu-Huapai and Riverhead: Boundary kits
If you live in this area you must indicate on the application form whether you need a boundary kit*. If we confirm this, we will send you a quote with the other installation charges. We will install the kit at about the same time as the wastewater is connected.
* When Kumeu-Huapai and Riverhead residents connect their property to the public wastewater system they must install a pressure wastewater collection (PWC) unit. We then install a boundary kit to house the connection point between the PWC and our wastewater pipe. You need Auckland Council approval through the building consent for the PWC, which is installed as part of your private sewer system.
Using an existing wastewater connection
This situation applies when you connect into the private drain that is already on a property. For example, if you want to connect a granny flat, you would use the existing private wastewater pipe to connect to the public network.
For this service please provide:
A stamped, approved drainage plan or site plan from Auckland Council, showing the existing wastewater connection.