✨ Water Conservation Order
23 JUNE 2006
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 65
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Schedule 3, whenever that Schedule refers to this clause, if that will cause, either by itself or in combination with any other existing consents as at 1 January 2000, or rules -
(a) material alteration of the naturally occurring sediment delivery to the mainstem Rangitata River; or
(b) reduction of the aquatic bird habitat.
(3) Subclauses (1) and (2) do not apply to the maintenance authorised by the Canterbury Regional Council of existing rock weirs and river works to the same level and extent as occurring as at 1 January 2000 or to the placing of raw rock works and the carrying out of river engineering works necessary for flood and asset protection purposes.
- Restrictions on alteration of river flows and form
(1) No resource consent may be granted or rule included in a regional plan that will cause the material alteration of the channel cross-section, or meandering pattern, or braided river channel characteristics of the form of any river specified in Schedule 2.
(2) The restriction in subclause (1) does not apply in respect of dams, weirs, roads, fords, bridges, or fish passes authorised at the date this order comes into force.
(3) No resource consent may be granted or rule included in a regional plan -
(a) authorising the abstraction of water from any part of the Rangitata River (including any and all calculated river depletion effects resulting from the taking of water from hydraulically connected groundwater sources as calculated in accordance with subclause (9)) specified in items 1, 2 and 3 of Schedule 2 and item 1 of Schedule 3 that will cause, either by itself or in combination with any other existing consents or rules, decrease of the naturally occurring instantaneous flow of water at Klondyke by more than 2% when the naturally occurring flow at Klondyke is less than or equal to 110 m³/s; or
(b) authorising the abstraction of water that will cause, either by itself or in combination with any other existing consents (including any and all calculated river depletion effects resulting from the taking of water from hydraulically connected groundwater sources as calculated in accordance with subclause (9)) or rules, decrease of the naturally occurring instantaneous flow of water in any river specified in item 2 of Schedule 3 by more than 15% when the naturally occurring flow at Klondyke is less than or equal to 110 m³/s; or
(c) authorising the abstraction of water that will cause, either by itself or in combination with any other existing consents (including any and all calculated river depletion effects resulting from the taking of water from
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Water Conservation, Rangitata River, Resource Management Act 1991, Order in Council, Outstanding Characteristics, Natural State, Protection Measures