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Feature image: Remediation of a long-term barrier to fish passage.A review of efforts to address water quality issues within the Hekeao/Hinds catchment highlights the impressive work that’s been...
https://www.ecan.govt.nz/get-involved/news-and-events/zone-news/ashburton/progress-review-an-opportunity-to-celebrate-efforts-in-the-lower-hinds-catchment
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https://www.ecan.govt.nz/reporting/outcome-results/a2-percentage-of-monitored-river-and-stream-sites-graded-d-or-e-for-e-coli-concentration-is-decreasing
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Over the past 18 years, a group of dedicated volunteers have turned an abandoned commercial salmon hatchery on McKinnon’s Creek into a thriving operation which will release 90,000 salmon this year
https://www.ecan.govt.nz/get-involved/news-and-events/2023/passionate-hatchery-volunteers-protect-salmon-population
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https://www.ecan.govt.nz/reporting/outcome-results/c2-percentage-of-monitored-coastal-sites-deemed-suitable-for-recreational-contact-is-increasing
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... required by the Canterbury Land and Water Regional Plan (LWRP). Environment Canterbury is working closely with consent holders within the catchment to implement the new rules through resource consent...
https://www.ecan.govt.nz/get-involved/news-and-events/zone-news/ashburton/reviews-on-track-to-keep-more-water-in-the-hakatereashburton-river
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The Canterbury Land and Water Regional Plan and Plan Change 7 are now fully operative from 10 March 2025, improving freshwater protection, nutrient management, and forestry rules and ensuring clearer...
https://www.ecan.govt.nz/get-involved/news-and-events/2025/plan-change-7-now-fully-operative
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After working together to create a strategy, Our Waitarakao project partners and the community are now busy implementing it – one plant, one trap, and one beach clean-up at a time. Our Waitarakao...
https://www.ecan.govt.nz/get-involved/news-and-events/2025/action-gets-underway-at-waitarakao
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.../Canterbury, with the equivalent of 150,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools of groundwater flowing beneath Ōtautahi/Christchurch. This water is crucial to our native and introduced species...
https://www.ecan.govt.nz/get-involved/news-and-events/2024/what-dry-conditions-mean-for-waitaha-canterbury
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... in this area. Each year, we monitor nine lakes and 14 rivers in this special part of Waitaha Canterbury to help us understand long-term trends and guide decisions about resource consents, land management...
https://www.ecan.govt.nz/get-involved/news-and-events/2025/annual-water-quality-results-continue-to-guide-action-in-upper-waitaki
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The decision of the joint hearing of the resource consents has been released. The Hearing Commissioners granted consent with conditions, relating to the storage of water; and the construction and maintenance of a water storage pond at the corner of Coxs Road and SH 73, Sheffield. ...
https://www.ecan.govt.nz/do-it-online/resource-consents/notifications-and-submissions/notified-decisions/2016/central-plains-water-limited
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