Waitaki Plan and Reports

The Waitaki Plan provides for the allocation of all water, whether groundwater or surface water, within the Waitaki catchment boundary. The majority of this is within Canterbury but the Plan is applied to the entire area by Environment Canterbury.
The Waitaki Plan considers water within the catchment as a whole and supersedes the provisions within Chapter 5 of the proposed NRRP. This means that allocation limits as previously stated for the groundwater zones known as “Waitaki”, “MacKenzie Basin” and “Hakataramea” are no longer relevant.

The Plan arose from a clear need to manage water allocation/use in the Waitaki Catchment as reflected in the Resource Management (Waitaki Catchment) Amendment Act 2004. This set up the Waitaki Catchment Allocation Board which in turn prepared the Plan and released it in September 2005.

This page was last updated 1 August, 2007.

Find out more about the Waitaki Resource Consent Process and the latest decisions.

Technical Reports

New:  Hakataramea River Catchment report

 Part One: Hakataramea Irrigation impact on water quality overview  82.2kb

 Part Two: Potential Impacts of Irrigation on Groundwater Nitrate in the Hakataramea River Catchment  3.83MB

 Part Three: Hakataramea Phosphorous estimates  224kb

 Part Four: Hakataramea river water quality impacts of irrigation  229kb

 Current Annual Allocation Report, 16 March 2007  368 kb 

 Appendix 5  137kb

 Appendix 6  119kb

 

Waitaki Regional Allocation Plan Newsletter

Find out more about the Waitaki Regional Allocation Plan Newsletter

Regional Plan

Waitaki Catchment Water Allocation Regional Plan  1.9MB	Waitaki Catchment Water Allocation Regional Plan Amended  501kb
Waitaki Catchment Water Allocation Regional Plan Annex 1  534kb	Waitaki Catchment Water Allocation Regional Plan Reference  1MB
Waitaki Catchment Water Allocation Regional Plan Section 32 Report  1MB

Historical Documentation

This information is predominantly archival information from the Ministry for the Environments website and was created during the process of achieving the final operational plan.

• Waitaki Catchment Water Allocation Board