The Christchurch City Council (CCC) has applied too discharge water and contaminants to land and water where the discharge is associated with all current and future stormwater as reflected in the Stormwater Management Plan (SMP) for the South-West area of Christchurch (‘the project area’).

The SMP project area consists of a total of approximately 7,975 hectares, and includes the upper Heathcote River, Cashmere Stream and the Halswell River sub catchments of Knights and Nottingham Streams, and is within the Christchurch Groundwater Protection Zones 1, 2 and 3.

The western boundary is Pound Road and Marshs Road, the western boundary then extends southwards to, but not including, the Halswell River at Lansdowne Valley. The northern boundary is Yaldhurst Road between Yaldhurst and the Riccarton Raceway.

The eastern boundary is the Heathcote River at Cashmere. The project area also extends to the ephemeral waterways draining the north and west-facing slopes of the Port Hills between Early Valley Road and Dyers Pass Road.

The application includes discharges during construction of development via best practice erosion and sediment control measures.

The application excludes all discharges of stormwater from industrial premises already consented where the consent is not held by Christchurch City Council or industrial premises that do not discharge to the Christchurch City Council stormwater network.

The Consent Application was publically notified on Saturday 3rd September 2011 you can view the notification and make an on line submission here.

The Notification period closed at 5:00pm on Friday the 30th of September 2011.

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Application documents

Monitoring Programme for South-West Christchurch Stormwater Management Plan (4.18 MB)

Section 92 Further Information Request Response (329 kB)

SMP for South-West Christchurch, Assessment of the Environmental Effects — Appendix A, Report Limitations (7 MB)

SMP for South-West Christchurch — Appendix B, Stormwater Management Plan (pdf 32 MB). Appendices available, if you would like them to be emailed to you please contact jtodd@golder.co.nz

SMP for South-West Christchurch — Appendix C, Sediment Quality Survey (Technical Report No.2) (17.8 MB)

SMP for South-West Christchurch — Appendix D, Aquatic Values and Management (Technical Report No.3) (4.02 MB)

SMP for South-West Christchurch — Appendix E, Water Quantity Assessment (Technical Report No.4) (pdf 29 MB). Appendices available, if you would like them to be emailed to you please contact jtodd@golder.co.nz

SMP for South-West Christchurch — Appendix F, Water Quality Assessment (Technical Report No.5) (pdf 34 MB). Appendices available, if you would like them to be emailed to you please contact jtodd@golder.co.nz

SMP for South-West Christchurch — Appendix G, Discharge Locations (507 kB)

SMP for South-West Christchurch — Appendix H, URS Peer Review Report (585 kB)

SMP for South-West Christchurch — Appendix I, Review of ANZECC (2000) Trigger Values for Zinc (1.26 MB)

SMP for South-West Christchurch — Appendix J, Monitoring Programme (6.7 MB)

Section 42A Reports

CRC120223: Section 42A Report of Brent Hamilton - Overview and Planning (4.7MB)

CRC120223: Section 42A Report of C. Brett Mongillo – Contaminated Land and HAIL Sites (99kB)

CRC120223: Section 42A Report of Graham Levy – Integrated Catchment Management (199kB)

CRC120223: Section 42A Report of Lisa Scott – Groundwater Quality (105kB)

CRC120223: Section 42A Report of Michele Stevenson – Surface Water Quality and Aquatic Ecology (161kB)

CRC120223: Section 42A Report of Paul Goff – Groundwater Quantity (127kB)

CRC120223: Section 42A Report of Tony Oliver – Surface Water Quantity (55kB)