Hurunui Waiau River Regional Plan

1. Hurunui Waiau River Regional Plan What it is Why we have it How we got here

2. Introduction • Statutory Framework • What the HWRRP does • Recap on time taken to develop HWRRP

3. Planning Framework ECAN ACT CWMS RIP ZIP

4. Resource Management Act • Part 2 = Sustainable Management of Natural and Physical Resources • Sustainable management means Managing the use, development and protection of natural and physical resources in a way or at a rate which enables people and communities to provide for their social, economic and cultural wellbeing and for their health and safety while • Sustaining the potential of natural and physical resources (excluding minerals) to meet the reasonably foreseeable needs of future generations • Safeguarding the life supporting capacity of air, water, soil and ecosystems • Avoiding, remedying or mitigating any adverse effects of activities on the environment. HWRRP ACHIEVES

5. National Policy Statement Fresh Water • NPSFW 2011 • Used to develop HWRRP • Requires limits to be set • Water Quantity and Quality • NPSFW 2014 • Adds to the NPSFW 2011 • Fresh water management units identified for all water bodies • Requires env bottom lines to be achieved • Accounting for water takes HWRRP GIVES EFFECT

6. Regional Policy Statement • HWRRP must ‘give effect’ • Natural Character • Enhance Fresh Water and Biodiversity • Water Quantity and Quality Limits • Integrated solutions • Harvest and Storage HWRRP GIVES EFFECT

7. Zone Implementation Programmeand CWMS • HWZIP • First ZIP developed • Specifies • Flow and Allocation Regime • Areas where storage is preferred • Water Quality • Maintain at or about current limit • Take a non-statutory approach to water quality with a regulatory backstop • HWRRP HELPS IMPLEMENT

8. How does the HWRRP manage water quality and nutrients

9. HWRRP Planning Principles

10. OUTCOMES SOUGHT (1)

11. OUTCOMES (2)

12. HURUNUI/WAIAU – NO CHANGE IN LAND USE Permitted if: • Sign up to collective ASM by 2017; and • Record and submit average N & P losses over 4-year period (2012-2016) • Catchment not over N-NO3 limits, or breaching Drinking Water Standards

13. HURUNUI/WAIAU – CHANGE IN LAND USE Permitted if: • Change = greater than 10%; and • If not irrigated - sign up to collective ASM by 2017; or • If irrigated - sign up to collective ASM & hold water permit that limits N and specifies measures to minimise P loss • In Hurunui above SH1, either N or P load limit not exceeded • Catchment not over N-NO3 limits or breaching Drinking Water Standards

14. COLLECTIVE ASMs (1) • Required by 2017 or if land use changes • Can be one of several options: • Industry Certification System; • Catchment agreement; • Irrigation Scheme Management Plan; or • Lifestyle Block Management Plan • Must be approved

15. COLLECTIVE ASMs (2) • Three parts (refer Schedule 2): • Environmental Strategy • Requirement for Farm Environment Plans • Management Objectives • Irrigation management • Soils management • Nutrient management • Wetland and riparian management • Collected animal effluent management • Description of Audit and Reporting Process

16. HWRRP Planning Principles

17. HWRRP - Plan Development Process

18. ZIP Development Process • Collaborative community driven process • Over 40 public meetings held • Water Quality most vexing issue • Public notification and submission process • Technical input through • Pre Zone Committee flow and allocation project • Land Use and Water Quality Pilot Project • Direct information requests to the Zone Committee

19. Formal HWRRP Development Process • Statutory Process • Defined in the RMA • Key Steps • Consultation with statutory bodies • Formal notification • Submissions • Further Submissions • Hearing • Appeals – till 2016 to the high court on points of Law

20. Time required • HWZIP and HWRRP took 2 years to develop • From ZC inception • ZC took work that had already been completed (LUWQ and CAG flow work) • 3 key periods of formal submission / engagement with wider public • Numerous public meetings