Treasure trove of historical water data will show how agricultural changes over the last century have affected water quality.
https://www.ecan.govt.nz/get-involved/news-and-events/zone-news/ashburton/discovery-of-a-goldmine-of-historical-data-offers-new-insight-into-mid-canterburys-groundwater-quality/Council has approved new rules that will streamline the consents process and strengthen restrictions on some activities to improve water quality.
https://www.ecan.govt.nz/get-involved/news-and-events/2023/council-approves-changes-that-simplify-rules-to-manage-water-quality/Ashburton water zone committee Chair William Thomas talks about the Mayfield Hinds Valetta consent renewal and our need to empathise with others.
https://www.ecan.govt.nz/get-involved/news-and-events/zone-news/ashburton/understanding-each-other/
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Zone priorities
Fish screens
What is a fish screen?
A fish screen is a structure designed to protect fish, including trout, salmon and native fish, by keeping them out of water takes where the inlet could impact fish. Water takes are used for irrigation, stock-water, community supplies or hydro-electric power generation.
In Canterbury there are around 900 fish screens consented – these consents must have a compliant fish screen, usually designed and engineered for a specific sur…
… Ellesmere), south of Banks Peninsula; and even at the time of European settlers was split into two mouths, north and south of Kaiapoi.
Today, its lower reaches have been straightened, its banks confined, flood barriers installed and some of its water used for irrigation.
For 150 years, economic management for the benefit of settling Europeans was the overarching concern, much to the dismay of Māori and more recently the wider community as water quality issues become one of the country’s bigge…
… application.
We will note your progress so you can be reassured that we know you are on-track for lodging your application.
What information do I need to calculate a Nitrogen Loss?
You need farm information/data of your farming activities, such as production, irrigation methods and application rates, nutrient application rates, stocking rates, and information about soil types found at the farm.
You need to retain all the information you used to calculate your first nitrogen loss as this infor…
… Highlights to date
There are 7,400 farms in Canterbury (based on Statistics New Zealand Agricultural Production stats: June 2017) of which 1,400 require a land use consent and 1,500 have an authorisation to farm as they are managed by collectives (irrigation schemes and farming enterprises) holding a consent. The remaining 4,500 farms operate under Permitted Activity status because their activities are of a lower environmental risk.
In the 2019-20 year, 1,097 Farm Environmental Plan audits w…
… statutory backing in regional plans and consents. Challenges lie in understanding and enabling flows that support a range of recreational activities.
Highlights to date
We monitor river flow throughout Canterbury.
We provide real-time information on irrigation restrictions across most rivers in Canterbury.
The Ashburton water consent review process seeks to set new minimum flow conditions on existing consents to take water from sources that contribute to stream depletion in the Hakatere / Ash…
Our rivers team attended the STEM Careers Fair to talk about summer internships, and what a career working in rivers is all about.
https://www.ecan.govt.nz/get-involved/news-and-events/2021/river-engineers-making-a-difference-in-aotearoas-waterways/The Environment Canterbury Council today resolved to make the Nutrient Management and Waitaki Plan Change, Plan Change 5, operative on 1 February 2019.
https://www.ecan.govt.nz/get-involved/news-and-events/2018/nutrient-management-and-waitaki-plan-change-to-be-made-operative/