New Zealand Gazette – 2006 – No. 65

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✨ Water Conservation Order



23 JUNE 2006

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 65

Order

  1. Title

This order is the Water Conservation (Rangitata River) Order 2006.

  1. Commencement

This order comes into force on the 20th working day after the date of its notification in the Gazette.

  1. Interpretation

In this order, unless the context otherwise requires:

“Act” means the Resource Management Act 1991.

“Biomass” in relation to weed or periphyton means “of the exposed substrata (tops and sides of stones) averaged over the full width of a channel run or reach”.

“Calculated River Depletion Effect” means the effect on river flows resulting from the pumping of water from groundwater wells in proximity to the river and its tributaries and calculated using the methods developed by Jenkins (1977) and Hunt (2003) or such other method as Canterbury Regional Council approves from time to time.

“Klondyke” means the site of the water level recorder on the Rangitata River at or about NZMS 260 J36:666149.

“Minimum flow” means the flow, as measured at Klondyke, at which all abstraction shall cease.

“Reasonable mixing” means the mixing that occurs:

(a) within a maximum radius of 200 metres from a discharge into a still water body; or

(b) within a maximum distance of 100 metres downstream from a discharge into the river including all tributaries (both named and un-named on the NZMS 260 maps) and in particular including the Ealing Springs and McKinnons Creek.

“River” means the mainstem of those waters identified in the Schedules to this Order. The mainstem shall be the river with that name on the NZMS 260 series topographical maps between specified lower and upper limits as defined by map references in the Schedules to this Order.

“Tributaries” means all the tributaries of the rivers or sections of rivers identified in Schedules 1, 2 and 3.



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🏛️ Water Conservation (Rangitata River) Order 2006 (continued from previous page)

🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
19 June 2006
Water Conservation, Rangitata River, Resource Management Act 1991, Order in Council