Upcoming Meetings

The Christchurch-West Melton Water Management Zone Committee meeting schedule.

Date	Time & Location	Agenda
Thursday 26 April 2012	6pm Avonhead Tennis Club, in Crosbie Park off Apsley Road	Read the agenda (831 kB)

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24 April 2012: Christchurch-West Melton Zone Committee meeting

Activities and Actions

The members of the Christchurch-West Melton Zone Committee have been announced meaning all ten Canterbury Water zone committees are now operational.

The zone committee is a joint committee of Christchurch City and Selwyn District councils, and Environment Canterbury. It features six community members as well as three Rūnanga representatives and three from council.

The role of the committee is to make consensus based decisions about water management in the zone. It will meet each month to learn about the water resource in the zone and engage with community members to get their feedback.

The end goal of the committee is to develop a set of water management recommendations that will be submitted to councils in the form of a Zone Implementation Programme.

At its first monthly meeting for 2012 the zone committee received presentations on the Water Supply Strategy and the Surface Water Strategy from Christchurch City Council. The committee also received a presentation from CERA on its Recovery Strategy.  

A key focus of the committee's February meeting was urban surface waters including addressing the issue of liquefaction in Chritstchurch waterways following the earthquakes.

In March the committee received an update from the working group formed to consider biodviersity priority outcomes and the aproach the committee should take to Immediate Steps funding.  

In April the committee discussed its work-plan for the coming months before receiving an update on the draft Land and Water Regional Plan (LWRP). The LWRP is a key mechanism for the outcomes in the CWMS and a working draft was relased for public comment.

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