The Waitaki Plan provides for the allocation of all water, whether groundwater or surface water, within the Waitaki catchment boundary. The majority of this is within Canterbury but the Plan is applied to the entire area by Environment Canterbury.
The Waitaki Plan considers water within the catchment as a whole and supersedes the provisions within Chapter 5 of the proposed NRRP. This means that allocation limits as previously stated for the groundwater zones known as “Waitaki”, “MacKenzie Basin” and “Hakataramea” are no longer relevant.
The Plan arose from a clear need to manage water allocation/use in the Waitaki Catchment as reflected in the Resource Management (Waitaki Catchment) Amendment Act 2004. This set up the Waitaki Catchment Allocation Board which in turn prepared the Plan and released it in September 2005.
Technical reports
Hakataramea River Catchment report
Part 1: Hakataramea Irrigation impact on water quality overview (pdf 82 kB)
Part 2: Potential Impacts of Irrigation on Groundwater Nitrate in the Hakataramea River Catchment (pdf 3.83 MB)
Part 3: Hakataramea Phosphorous estimates (pdf 224 kB)
Part 4: Hakataramea river water quality impacts of irrigation (pdf 229 kB)
Current Annual Allocation Report, 16 March 2007 (pdf 368 kB)
Appendix 5 (pdf 137 kB)
Appendix 6 (pdf 119 kB)
Regional Plan
Read the Waitaki Regional Plan and Section 32 Report
Waitaki Regional Allocation Plan newsletter
Waitaki RAP April 2007 (pdf 194 kB)
Waitaki RAP August 2006 (pdf 264 kB)
Waitaki RAP April 2006 (pdf 139 kB)
Historical documentation
This information is predominantly archival information from the Ministry for the Environment's website and was created during the process of achieving the final operational plan.