Find out about irrigation restrictions for a specific area, which may relate to a consent you hold.
Only information from our irrigation restrictions table should be used for irrigation restriction purposes; information from our riverflow data page should not be used — nor should data published in newspapers. It is your responsibility to understand the minimum flow conditions imposed under your consent.
Decision on the application to take and use water from the Waitaki River as Part of the Hunter Downs Irrigation Scheme by the South Canterbury Irrigation Trust and Meridian Energy Limited.
https://www.ecan.govt.nz/do-it-online/resource-consents/notifications-and-submissions/hearing-decisions/2010/hunter-downs-irrigation-scheme/The decision of Environment Canterbury and Ashburton District Council is to grant consent, subject to conditions, for the construction, operation and maintenance of the 1.6 million cubic metre water storage pond (Ākarana storage dam ) for irrigation purposes at 577 Barkers Road, Methven.
https://www.ecan.govt.nz/do-it-online/resource-consents/notifications-and-submissions/hearing-decisions/2017/barrhill-chertsey-irrigation-limited/A hearing panel comprising of Commissioners Christmas and Heller granted resource consents to use water for irrigation purposes and to take, use and discharge water for stream augmentation purposes.
https://www.ecan.govt.nz/do-it-online/resource-consents/notifications-and-submissions/hearing-decisions/2010/morven-glenavy-ikawai-irrigation-company-ltd/The decision on the hearing has now been released. The Commissioners have granted consents to construct and operate a community irrigation scheme with hydro generation capacity to irrigate 58,500 hectares of land in the Hurunui, Waipara and Kowai Catchments for a duration of 35 years subject to conditions outlined in the decision.
https://www.ecan.govt.nz/do-it-online/resource-consents/notifications-and-submissions/hearing-decisions/2013/hurunui-water-project-waitohi-irrigation/
The decision on the Ashburton Lyndhurst Irrigation Limited application to discharge nutrients onto and into land from farming activities on properties supplied with water by Ashburton Lyndhurst Irrigation Ltd between the Hakatere/Ashburton River and Rakaia River, has been released.
The decision is to grant the application, with conditions.
to divert, take, use and discharge water for irrigation purposes.
https://www.ecan.govt.nz/do-it-online/resource-consents/notifications-and-submissions/hearing-decisions/2010/weka-irrigators/
Farms connected to an Irrigation Scheme or Principal Water Supplier.
You can contact your Irrigation Scheme, Principal water supplier or Hurunui Waiau Collective to get help to:
A. Calculate your Nitrogen Loss
B. Prepare your Farm Environment Plan (FEP)
C. Arrange your FEP Audit
If the resource consent of your Irrigation Scheme or Principal Water Supplier covers your property, or if you are part of a Hurunui Waiau Collective with an approved Environment Management Strategy you do not need to…
The decision on the hearing of Asburton River consent review consent CRC200238 was released.
The decision was to refuse the alternative minimum flow condition to the consent holder and grant the Canterbury Regional Council proposed conditions change.
The decision on the Barrhill Chertsey Irrigation Limited applications to discharge nutrients from farming activities on properties supplied with water by the applicant in the Hinds/Hekeao Plains Area between the Hakatere/Ashburton and Rangitata Rivers and to discharge nutrients from farming activities on properties where nitrogen losses are managed by the applicant, between the Hakatere/Ashburton and Rakaia has been released.
The applications have been granted, with conditions, for a term expi…