✨ National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management
4 JULY 2014
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 71
1995
TITLE
This national policy statement is the National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management 2014.
COMMENCEMENT
This national policy statement will take effect 28 days after the date of its issue by notice in the New Zealand Gazette.
INTERPRETATION
In this national policy statement:
“Attribute” is a measurable characteristic of fresh water, including physical, chemical and biological properties, which supports particular values.
“Attribute state” is the level to which an attribute is to be managed for those attributes specified in Appendix 2.
“Compulsory values” mean the national values relating to ecosystem health and to human health for recreation included in Appendix 1 and for which a non-exhaustive list of attributes is provided in Appendix 2.
“Efficient allocation” includes economic, technical and dynamic efficiency.
“Environmental flows and/or levels” are a type of limit which describes the amount of water in a freshwater management unit (except ponds and naturally ephemeral water bodies) which is required to meet freshwater objectives. Environmental flows for rivers and streams must include an allocation limit and a minimum flow (or other flow/s). Environmental levels for other freshwater management units must include an allocation limit and a minimum water level (or other level/s).
“Existing freshwater quality” means the quality of the fresh water at the time the regional council commences the process of setting or reviewing freshwater objectives and limits in accordance with Policy A1, Policy B1, and Policies CA1-CA4.
“Freshwater management unit” is the water body, multiple water bodies or any part of a water body determined by the regional council as the appropriate spatial scale for setting freshwater objectives and limits and for freshwater accounting and management purposes.
“Freshwater objective” describes an intended environmental outcome in a freshwater management unit.
“Freshwater quality accounting system” means a system that, for each freshwater management unit, records, aggregates and keeps regularly updated, information on the measured, modelled or estimated:
a) loads and/or concentrations of relevant contaminants;
b) sources of relevant contaminants;
c) amount of each contaminant attributable to each source; and
d) where limits have been set, proportion of the limit that is being used.
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