National CDEM Exercise Programme 2011
Date: March 2011
Financial Year: 2011/2012
Exercise Name: TBA
Exercise Theme: Severe weather event
Tier: 2
Lead Agency: Bay of Plenty CDEM Group
Participating Agencies: Potentially Gisborne and Hawkes Bay CDEM Groups
Details: The exercise scenario involved storm surge leading to flooding, and significant infrastructure damage as a result of the combination of high winds, rain and flooding. The focus of the exercise was for the Bay of Plenty CDEM Group to exercise lifeline utility business continuity plans etc.
Date: Week commencing 13 June
Financial Year: 2011/2012
Exercise Name: Exercise Resolution
Exercise Theme: Counter Terrorism
Tier: Other
Lead Agency: NZ Police
Participating Agencies:
Details:
Date: August 2011
Financial Year: 2011/2012
Exercise Name: TBC
Exercise Theme: Disaster Recovery
Tier: 2
Lead Agency: Marlborough CDEM Group
Participating Agencies:
Details:
Date: 2 September 2011
Financial Year: 2011/2012
Exercise Name: TBC
Exercise Theme: TBC
Tier: 2
Lead Agency: Chatham Islands CDEM Group
Participating Agencies:
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Date: 10 November 2011
Financial Year: 2011/2012
Exercise Name: Exercise Pacific Wave
Exercise Theme: Tsunami
Tier: Other
Lead Agency: MCDEM
Participating Agencies: TBC
Details: Exercise PacWave ‘11 was conducted on Thursday 10 November 2011 with the focus on a regional source tsunami scenario. New Zealand elected to use a scenario originating in Vanuatu. While this will affect both west and east coasts of New Zealand to varying degrees, the larger impacts will be on the west coast of the country.
Although not formally part of the national CDEM exercise programme, the National Exercise Programme Governance Group agreed at its meeting in June to participate in the exercise with each CDEM Group to decide on its level of engagement.
Options that CDEM Groups could consider ranged from straight forward communications tests of principal emergency contacts, to full-scale alerting and ‘warm-body’ evacuations of people from tsunami hazard zones.