Lower Waitaki Zone Committee focuses on water quality limits

The Lower Waitaki – South Coastal Canterbury Zone Committee will meet in Waimate on Wednesday 15 Aprilfor its monthly water management meeting.

The committee’s current focus is on developing outcomes for water quality limits as part of sub-regional planning processes in the zone, which is one tool designed to deliver the goals of the Canterbury Water Management Strategy (CWMS).

The sub-regional planning process involves working with the community to develop recommendations on how to set and achieve water quality limits that will meet its cultural, economic, environmental and social aspirations.

Once finalised, these recommendations will be presented to Environment Canterbury Commissioners next month for consideration before they are translated into planning provisions and a suite of non-statutory actions.

At Wednesday’s meeting, the committee will receive final reports from  work being undertaken in the Hakataramea, Waitaki Northern Fan, and Valley and Tributaries catchments. Public workshops have been held in these catchments to develop water quality regimes which will feed in to the sub-regional planning process.

The Lower Waitaki - South Coastal Canterbury Zone Committee operates as a joint committee of Environment Canterbury and the Waimate and Waitaki District Councils. The zone extends from the Otaio catchment in the north, to the Waitaki Dam in the south, taking in Waimate, Kurow and Duntroon.

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