News & events

Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2018

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.

Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2018

A company has pleaded not guilty in court in relation to a discharge of ammonia to air.

Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018

The Environment Canterbury Council today resolved to make the Nutrient Management and Waitaki Plan Change, Plan Change 5, operative on 1 February 2019.

Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2018

The Ōtūkaikino River has won the Supreme Award for Most Improved River at the 2018 New Zealand River Awards in Wellington.

Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2018

The Upper Waitaki Water Zone Committee supported a stream enhancement project that will protect the threatened native fish bignose galaxias.

Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2018

Environment Canterbury has laid charges against two parties in relation to the death of hundreds of eels in Kaputone Creek.

Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2018 by Hamish McFarlane - Orari Temuka Opihi Pareora Water Zone Committee chair

Hamish McFarlane, was elected as the new Chair taking over from John Talbot to develop water management with the community.

Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2018

Earlier this week Environment Canterbury welcomed Their Excellencies, The Rt Hon Dame Patsy Reddy and Sir David Gascoigne, to Selwyn District.

Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2018

Two companies have been fined a total of $41,000 for causing sediment contamination of a Christchurch stream.

Date: Thu, 31 May 2018

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.

Date: Fri, 25 May 2018

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.

Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018

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.