✨ Freshwater Management Definitions
1996 NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 71 4 JULY 2014
"Freshwater quantity 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) total freshwater take;
b) proportion of freshwater taken by each major category of use; and
c) where limits have been set, proportion of the limit that has been taken.
"Freshwater take" is a take of ground or surface fresh water whether authorised or not.
"Limit" is the maximum amount of resource use available, which allows a freshwater objective to be met.
"Minimum acceptable state" is the minimum level, specified in Appendix 2, at which a freshwater objective may be set in a regional plan in order to provide for the associated national value.
"National bottom line" means the minimum acceptable state for the compulsory values as specified in Appendix 2.
"National value" means any value described in Appendix 1.
"Naturally occurring processes" means processes that could have occurred in New Zealand prior to the arrival of humans.
"Outstanding freshwater bodies" are those water bodies identified in a regional policy statement or regional plan as having outstanding values, including ecological, landscape, recreational and spiritual values.
"Over-allocation" is the situation where the resource:
a) has been allocated to users beyond a limit; or
b) is being used to a point where a freshwater objective is no longer being met.
This applies to both water quantity and quality.
"Secondary contact" means people’s contact with fresh water that involves only occasional immersion and includes wading or boating (except boating where there is high likelihood of immersion).
"Target" is a limit which must be met at a defined time in the future. This meaning only applies in the context of over-allocation.
"Value" means:
a) any national value; and
b) includes any value in relation to fresh water, that is not a national value, which a regional council identifies as appropriate for regional or local circumstances (including any use value).
Terms given meaning in the Act have the meanings so given.
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