Rocks can't be taken in the Waimakariri River Regional Park. Rocks have been placed deliberately to protect Christchurch and other urban centres from floods.
However the Waimakariri River Regional Plan 2004 permits the taking of sand and shingle provided the following rules are observed:
(i) the quantity of bed material disturbed is less than 10 cubic metres per week per person, and less than 50 cubic metres per annum per person;
(ii) the disturbance does not occur within 50 metres of any structure located in the riverbed, other than flood protection works as provided for in (iv)
below;
(iii) the disturbance does not occur under flowing water or in, on, under or over any wetland in the bed;
(iv) the disturbance does not occur within 5 metres of the banks of the river or any flood protection works; and
(v) the disturbance does not occur within 100 metres of colonies of birdlife,
nesting or rearing their young in riverbed gravels from 1 September to 31 January of the following year, or physically disturb any indigenous bird's
nest currently in use.
The disturbance of the bed includes, excavation, drilling, tunnelling, or other disturbance of the bed. Note that the term excavation includes removal of gravel from the bed.
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