How healthy is your local stream? You can now find out with our easy-to-use Stream Health Monitoring Assessment Kits (SHMAK), available for community use across Waitaha Canterbury. Landowners, schools...
https://www.ecan.govt.nz/get-involved/news-and-events/2025/monitor-your-local-streams-with-new-testing-kitsG & G Coats has applied for resource consent to take and use water from the Lower Waiau River. Current status: A request for further information has been made and a hearing will be held after
https://www.ecan.govt.nz/do-it-online/resource-consents/notifications-and-submissions/g-and-g-coats-limitedThe decision on the hearing of CRC082988 has now been released. Commissioners S McGarry and C Shearer granted consent to Hurunui District Council to discharge contaminants into water and onto land
https://www.ecan.govt.nz/do-it-online/resource-consents/notifications-and-submissions/notified-decisions/2013/hurunui-district-council-amberley-stormwaterThe decision of the Hearing Commissioner on the application to discharge factory processing wastewater, vehicle wash and stormwater to land and associated discharge to air at 125 Fairton Road
https://www.ecan.govt.nz/do-it-online/resource-consents/notifications-and-submissions/notified-decisions/2024/talleys-limtedThe decision on applications required to construct, operate and maintain the Balmoral Water Storage Facility and to replace an existing fish screen at the Balmoral Irrigation Race Intake, has been
https://www.ecan.govt.nz/do-it-online/resource-consents/notifications-and-submissions/notified-decisions/2025/amuri-irrigation-company-ltdThe Kaikōura zone has diverse ecosystems that are rich in biodiversity. The towering Seaward Kaikōura Range, visible from the township and across the Kaikōura Plains, host unique plant species, while...
https://www.ecan.govt.nz/your-region/your-environment/biodiversity-and-biosecurity/biodiversity/nature-in-your-area/kaikoura-zone-biodiversityWaimate’s air quality is improving, with new independent analysis confirming a clear long-term reduction in harmful particulate pollution. An independent evaluation of Environment Canterbury’s air...
https://www.ecan.govt.nz/get-involved/news-and-events/2026/waimate-air-quality-improving-updated-analysis-confirmsThe Ashburton Water Zone Committee is supporting a trial using biochar to help improve water quality at Lake Hood. The project, which will be coordinated by the Lake Hood Water Quality Taskforce
https://www.ecan.govt.nz/get-involved/news-and-events/zone-news/ashburton/keen-interest-on-biochar-trial-at-carters-creekToday Environment Canterbury cancelled an abatement notice issued to Cloud Ocean Water which had stopped it taking water. Cloud Ocean Water, a commercial water bottling operation based in Belfast
https://www.ecan.govt.nz/get-involved/news-and-events/2018/cloud-ocean-abatement-notice-cancelled