Activity Areas

Key activity areas for the AELG are:

Annual Seminar
Projects

Annual Seminar

The AELG holds an annual seminar for members and interested parties, at which members will be encouraged to report on progress made within their organisations on mitigation activities, asset management and disaster preparedness planning. The AELG annual seminar was held on the 3 rd April 2007.  The following seminar presentations are available for download.

• Ex Marconi briefing
• AELG update 2007'
• CDEMG update

The AELG annual breakfast seminar 2006 was held on 31 March - download the presentation slides by taking the links below.

• Volcanic Ash Fallout in Auckland
• AELG Update and Lifeline Coordinator Protocols
• Cities on Volcanoes Conference Highlights
• Lifeline Utilities and CDEM
• Pandemic Scenario Introduction
• Pandemic Utility Sector Presentations
• Volcanic Impact Study Group

The AELG 2005 seminar was held on 31 st March.  The programme and following presentations can be downloaded; AELG Annual Seminar, National Lifelines and AELG presentations

The following powerpoint presentations can be downloaded:

• AELG Profile Presentation
• AELG Project Presentation
• Lifelines Utilities and Terrorism
• Hot Tips from the National Lifelines Conference
• Cities on Volcanoes Conference 2003
  

Projects

The Auckland Engineering Lifelines Project identified a number of potential
projects which could substantially contribute to reducing the vulnerability
of Aucklands lifelines and improve disaster preparedness planning.

The AELG intends to progress those projects that would collectively benefit
the lifelines organisations in the Auckland region.

The following projects have been completed or are nearly complete and further
information is provided on the publications page.

AELG-1: Inter-Utility Communications Systems
AELG-2: Lifelines Co-ordination (Response)
AELG-3: Infrastructure Hotspots
AELG-4: Lifeline Utility – CDEM Exercise
AELG-5: Priority Utility Sites for Recovery
AELG-5: Priority Emergency Routes - Auckland Region
AELG-6: Resources Available for Response and Recovery
AELG-7: Volcanic Ash Health and Safety Issues
AELG-8: Coordination of Public Communications (Lifeline Utilities)
AELG-9: Volcanic Ash Impact on Airports
AELG-10: Business Continuity Management and Planning
AELG-11: Impact of Volcanic Ash on Auckland's Water Supplies
AELG-12: Framework to Implement Lifeline Strategies
AELG-13: AELG Volcanic Ash Review (Impacts on Lifelines Services and Collection/Disposal Issues).
AELG-14: Volcanic Ash Impact on Wastewater Infrastructure
AELG-15: Auckland fuel contingency plan.
AELG-16: Review of emergency radio communications for lifeline utilities and CDEM
AELG-17: Review Auckland emergency generator capacity
AELG-18: Volcanic ash poster: Managing ash on roads
Report on Volcanic Field Visit Kagoshima