Meet your water zone committee

What does the Waimakariri Water Zone Committee do?

The committee works with community members and an on-the-ground team made up of Environment Canterbury staff to implement water management work programmes in the Waimakariri area.

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Community members

Martha Jolly

Martha Jolly is based in Rangiora and has over 20-years experience in a clinical veterinary practice. She is currently completing a Masters in Water Resource Management and is a member of the Styx Living Laboratory Trust.

Claire Aldhamland

Claire has lived in Kainga, adjacent to the Waimakariri River, for over 15 years and leads the Creative Arts Faculty at Rangiora High School. Claire has held numerous community roles over the years. She was President of the NZ Holsteiner Breeders Assn and is the current Kainga Residents Assn Secretary. She has a passion for collaborative learning and the local environment of the Waimakariri.

Carolyne Latham - Chair

For a number of years now Carolyne has worked as a Service Provider on contract to Land Information New Zealand doing High Country Tenure Review; a process under the Crown Pastoral Land Act which enables high country Crown pastoral land with conservation values to be freed from the lease and retained in crown ownership as public conservation land. In addition, she has owned and operated a sheep and beef farm with her husband for over 25 years. In recent years Carolyne has attended a number of courses on sustainable farming.

Erin Harvie - Deputy Chair

Erin Harvie is an environmental consultant and resident of Kaiapoi. Erin has worked within the Waimakariri District for most of her professional career.

As an environmental consultant, Erin is familiar with planning requirements and has a comprehensive understanding of CWMS targets

Kirk Blumers

Kirk is Manager for Wellbeing, Occupational Health and Rehabilitation for the Department of Conservation. He has worked across a diverse range of projects and instigated a peer-to-peer support and mental health champion network for DOC's 3,500 Kaitiaki.Kirk lives in Parklands and sees the Waimakariri as his second home, spending considerable time in the catchment, including as a keen kayaker.

Ruby Gill-Clifford - Waimakariri Zone Committee Youth Representative

Bio to come.

Rūnanga representatives

Arapata Reuben - Te Ngāi Tuahuriri Rūnanga - Deputy Chair
John Cooke - Te Ngāi Tuahuriri Rūnanga

Council appointment

Tim Fulton - Waimakariri District Council

Environment Canterbury appointment

Cr Claire McKay

Get in touch

Murray Griffin— Zone Facilitator 027 705 4798 murray.griffin@ecan.govt.nz

Stephen Bragg — Tangata Whenua Facilitator 027 487 3892 stephen.bragg@ecan.govt.nz

Vacant — Zone Delivery Lead

Zone Implementation Programmes

Zone Implementation Programmes - or ZIPs - were developed when water zone committees were established. These bits of work followed the adoption of the Canterbury Water Management Strategy and aimed to provide overarching goals for water management in the ten different water zones of Waitaha/Canterbury.

While we may have moved on in terms of our priorities in each zone, ZIPs remain the foundation of the work we do.

Following the adoption of the Waimakariri Zone Implementation Plan Addendum (ZIPA), the committee worked with the community to develop additional actions to help address land and freshwater challenges in the zone. These were reflected in the ZIPA and were used to inform changes to the Canterbury Land and Water Regional Plan.

View the Waimakariri Zone Implementation Plan Addendum (PDF File, 8MB).