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Waimakariri Zone Committee meeting

Friday 28 September 2012, 1:27PM

By Environment Canterbury

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CANTERBURY

The Waimakariri Zone Committee will meet for its monthly meeting on Monday, 1 October, in Rangiora.

The committee will begin with an update from the Regional Committee, which considers region-wide issues of environmental restoration and repair; land use impacts on water quality; as well as water storage, distribution and efficiency options.

Greg Byrnes will then provide an update on the biodiversity work being undertaken at Tutaepatu Lagoon, which received Immediate Steps funding from the committee. The programme has included weed removal and control followed by the planting of more than 4000 native plants including Kahikatea, New Zealand's tallest forest tree.

The committee will finish the meeting by looking at the sub-regional planning process in the zone as part of Environment Canterbury’s proposed Land and Water Regional Plan (LWRP).

The proposed Plan provides the framework to facilitate delivery of the community’s aspirations for water management – as set out in the Canterbury Water Management Strategy (CWMS).

Under the proposed Plan the committee will be required to work with the community to achieve freshwater objectives, environmental flows and water quality limits in the zone, as required by the National Policy Statement on Freshwater Management.

At the conclusion of the meeting there will be a public workshop on audited self-management and farm management plans. Andrew Curtis from Irrigation New Zealand and Brent Walton from Waimakariri Irrigation Limited will be present.

The zone committee operates as a joint committee of Environment Canterbury and the Waimakariri District Council. The Waimakariri Zone includes the Ashley River catchment and shares the Waimakariri catchment below the gorge with the Selwyn- Waihora and Christchurch-West Melton zones. It includes Kaiapoi, Rangiora and Oxford.

Meeting details

Waimakariri Zone Committee meeting
3:30pm, Monday, 1 October.
Council Chambers, Waimakariri District, Council, 215 High Street, Rangiora

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