Please make sure you provide all the required information and documents listed below. This will avoid delays in processing your application.

Required for ALL applications for an irrigation meter:

• 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 choose the Property Information tab

• Property owner’s details

• Onsite contact person, e.g. plumber or builder

• Applicant’s details (if different)

• Auckland Council building consent and resource consent numbers, if available: For information, see Auckland Council's website.

• Site or drainage plan showing all existing and proposed public/private drains, private water pipes and backflow prevention devices
  

Commercial customers, please also provide:

• Water meter diameter (mm).

• Estimated peak flow (litres/second).

• Estimated increase in average daily water use (litres/day).

• Calculations for these estimations.

If there will be an increase in water demand for the property, through a change of use, we also need to know:

• Estimated daily water use (litres), to determine your infrastructure growth charges.

• Whether development contributions for water or wastewater for the property have been paid to Auckland Council or the previous local authority.

We recommend that you apply well ahead of the required installation date:

• Domestic connection: apply at least six weeks before

• Commercial connection: apply 10 weeks before.

Applying for an irrigation sprinkler connection would be part of your commercial or residential connections application.

We will either send you an application number or request any missing information, before we start our technical assessment.

During the assessment we review your information and plans, and work out the logistics of installing your new connection. We also calculate the full cost, based on:

• how long the assessment takes

• the scale and complexity of your connection and whether or not any other charges, such as traffic management, will apply

• whether infrastructure growth charges will apply.

• Domestic customers: We send you an invoice after we have assessed your application.

• Non-domestic customers: We send you a quote based on your requirements. Once you accept this quote, we will invoice you for all charges.

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You need to pay your invoice in full before we can book the installation.

Our contractors will provide the irrigation meter and connect it to the public network. They will also install the backflow prevention device. Please note they will not carry out any private plumbing on your side of the point of supply.

• Water charges will apply from the time your irrigation meter is installed.

• You need to test your backflow prevention device annually.

• You can expect an invoice within 10 days of when we receive your application.

• We aim to deliver the service you have requested within 15 working days of receiving payment.

We start charging from the time we install the meter.