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Hurunui Waiau River Regional Plan

Hurunui Waiau River Regional Plan. What it is Why we have it How we got here. Introduction. Statutory Framework What the HWRRP does Recap on time taken to develop HWRRP. Planning Framework. ECAN ACT. CWMS. RIP. ZIP. Resource Management Act.

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Hurunui Waiau River Regional Plan

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  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

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