Submissions closed 5.00 pm, Friday 11 February 2011.

Information to be included in your submission

Submissions must follow Form 30 of the Resource Management (Forms, Fees and Procedure) Regulations 2003, including the following information:

1. Your name, address and telephone number.
2. The name of the applicant, and the application.
3. Briefly describe the application and the reasons for the application.
4. The parts of the application that your submission relates to.
5. State whether you support or oppose the application.
6. State the reasons for your submission.
7. If you support the order, but prefer to preserve a different but related water body in the same catchment, state this and your reasons.
8. If you support the order, but prefer to preserve different features and qualities of the water body, state this and your reasons.
9. If you oppose the application, you must specify why you consider the order is not justified in of sections 50(2) and 57(2) of the Environment Canterbury Act.
10. State the recommendation you wish Environment Canterbury to make to the Minister for the Environment.
11. State whether you wish to be heard in support of your submission.

Submissions opposing the amendments should provide reasons for why the changes are not justified in terms of sections 50(2) and 57(2) of the Environment Canterbury Act 2010.  If you support the proposed order but you prefer to preserve a different but related water body in the same catchment or if you prefer to preserve different features and qualities of the water body, your submission must state your preference and give reasons for your preferences.  In giving reasons, you must refer, if practicable, to the matters set out in sections 50(2) and 57(2) of the Environment Canterbury Act. You must also describe the provisions that you think should be included in the order and the effects that those provisions would have on the water body.

Submissions must have been received by Environment Canterbury by 5 pm on Friday 11th February 2011.

Applicant's address for service:

As soon as reasonably practicable after serving your submission on Environment Canterbury, you must serve a copy of your submission on the applicants, whose address for service is:

Applicants:   Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu and Department of Conservation
Address:    Te Waihora/Lake Ellesmere Water Conservation Order, PO Box 13-046, Christchurch 8141
Email:   Jason.arnold@ngaitahu.iwi.nz and ppalmer@doc.govt.nz

Please contact Susannah Black 0800 324 636 or Susannah.black@ecan.govt.nz or Lynda Weastell Murchison 0800 324 636 or Lynda.weastell@ecan.govt.nz, if you have any questions about the application or making a submission.