✨ Water Conservation Order Details
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 65
23 JUNE 2006
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10. Requirement to maintain fish passage
(1) No resource consent may be granted or rule included in a regional plan relating to the waters identified in Schedule 2, authorising an activity that will adversely affect the passage of salmon, where Schedule 2 identifies salmon passage or salmon spawning as an outstanding characteristic or contributing to an outstanding characteristic.
(2) No resource consent in relation to an intake site may be granted, or rule included in a regional plan, for the waters specified in Schedule 2 authorising an activity unless that resource consent provides for fish exclusion or a fish bypass system to prevent fish from being lost from the specified waters.
11. Restrictions on alteration of water quality
(1) No resource consent may be granted or rule included in a regional plan authorising a discharge into any of the waters identified in Schedules 2 or 3 at any time, if, after allowing for reasonable mixing of the discharge with the receiving waters, the discharge will alter the natural temperature of the receiving water by more than 3 degrees Celsius provided that:
(a) the alteration does not increase the water temperature to more than 12 degrees Celsius during the months May to September (inclusive); and
(b) the alteration does not increase the water temperature to more than 20 degrees Celsius during the months October to April (inclusive).
(2) No resource consent may be granted or rule included in a regional plan authorising a discharge into any of the waters identified in Schedule 2 or Schedule 3, unless, after allowing for reasonable mixing of the discharge with the receiving waters, any change in the acidity or alkalinity in the receiving waters, attributable to that discharge, maintains the pH within the range of 6 to 9 units.
(3) No resource consent may be granted or rule included in a regional plan authorising a discharge into any of the waters identified in Schedule 2 or Schedule 3, unless, after allowing for reasonable mixing of the discharge with the receiving waters:
(a) there will be no undesirable biological growths attributable to the discharge;
(b) in particular there will be no:
(i) bacterial and/or fungal slime growths that are visible to the naked eye; and/or
(ii) maximum biomass cover of streams or river beds by:
(A) periphyton as filamentous growths (longer than 20 mm) exceeding 30%; and/or biomass exceeding 120 mg/m² as chlorophyll a, and/or biomass exceeding 35 g/m² ash free dry weight,
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Water Conservation, Rangitata River, Resource Management Act 1991, Order in Council, Fish Passage, Water Quality, Salmon Protection