Environment Canterbury has set targets for swimmable lakes and rivers. The Canterbury targets are for 92 percent of rivers and 81 percent of lakes being swimmable by 2030.
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Sign up for the latest newsA company has pleaded not guilty in court in relation to a discharge of ammonia to air.
The Environment Canterbury Council today resolved to make the Nutrient Management and Waitaki Plan Change, Plan Change 5, operative on 1 February 2019.
The Ōtūkaikino River has won the Supreme Award for Most Improved River at the 2018 New Zealand River Awards in Wellington.
The Upper Waitaki Water Zone Committee supported a stream enhancement project that will protect the threatened native fish bignose galaxias.
Environment Canterbury has laid charges against two parties in relation to the death of hundreds of eels in Kaputone Creek.
Hamish McFarlane, was elected as the new Chair taking over from John Talbot to develop water management with the community.
Earlier this week Environment Canterbury welcomed Their Excellencies, The Rt Hon Dame Patsy Reddy and Sir David Gascoigne, to Selwyn District.
Two companies have been fined a total of $41,000 for causing sediment contamination of a Christchurch stream.
A popular little lake in the Mackenzie Basin, Lake Poaka, is getting some help to reduce invasive trees that are clogging its shoreline and surrounding wetlands.
Sediment traps, which help reduce erosion and run-off into waterways, can now be installed on farms as part of a catchment-wide consent process in the Kakahu River catchment, near Geraldine.
They may be challenging to catch but the slippery eels surveyed at Wainono Lagoon this month provide us with valuable information. Read more about the Wainono lagoon eel population.