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To View the Digital Edition of Waterlines for Spring 2020 White background Rural Otago’s update Spring 2020 What's inside? Lake Dunstan Update on EPA Everyday water heroes notified plan A joined-up approach to catchment groups in Otago Catchment groups new and old will soon have more organisational and administrative support, which means more time for their members to do great things for Otago waterways. Catchment group leaders in Otago are Group made up of staff and councillors, “This initiative will support engaged establishing an umbrella organisation to catchment group representatives and a landowners to achieve environmental support existing catchment groups and regional coordinator from NZ Landcare outcomes specific to their area. help new ones get off the ground. Trust. “Providing coordination and The initiative will provide organisational The Advisory Group’s goal is to create administrative support, along with support for catchment groups and and support an Otago-wide network of information sharing and connecting with volunteers, help groups secure catchment groups that are addressing all stakeholders, will allow landowners funding, provide administration and water quality and waterway health, now to concentrate on achieving on-the- communication support, and facilitate and for generations to come. ground outcomes. access to experts, information and Using the money, ORC is helping the “Lyndon Strang from North Otago technology. catchment groups to establish an Sustainable Land Management (NOSLaM) Over time, it will also look to establish incorporated society. The incorporated is the establishment chairperson long-term funding pipelines to support society will employ a fulltime regional and there is representation across changing needs, and act as a conduit coordinator and contract more localised all of Otago. It’s exciting to see the between government, regional coordinators as required to support development of a working relationship authorities, and local stakeholders. catchment groups across Otago. between landowners and the ORC in recent years culminating in this support The Otago Regional Council (ORC) put Pomahaka farmer Lloyd McCall, a long- of a catchment group network,” Mr $200,000 aside in this year’s budget standing member of the Pomahaka McCall said. to support catchment groups, and Water Care Group and one of the main convened a Catchment Support Advisory organisers behind the collaboration, said that it was on a really exciting trajectory. Continued on page 3 the knowledge and skills we have across policies, the deadline has moved to staff and governance. next year and we’re having additional conversations with communities about The big news of the moment is the their freshwater visions right now (see new set of regulations from the page 11 for details). government, collectively known as the Essential Freshwater package, which Long-term planning is an opportunity have been in force since 3 September. to take stock of where we’re at, and Included in the regulations are new where we want ORC to be headed. A National Environmental Standards for Long-term Plan is a ten-year plan that Welcome to the spring edition Freshwater, which are basically rules we redo every three years. That might of the Otago Regional Council’s that apply right across the country, sound odd, but it means we are always rural magazine, Waterlines. regardless of regional plans. Some of keeping an eye on the future, making these take immediate effect, and others sure that our priorities and values for the It’s fair to say 2020 has been an have a bit of lead-in time for people to region align with our work programmes interesting sort of year so far for the comply. and spending, and having regular conversations with Otago communities ORC. Like the rest of New Zealand, we’ve There’s a lot to unpack and implement to make sure we’re on-track with faced a bit of disruption from Covid-19, in these regulations—both for you in their expectations. Look out for your which has impacted how we consult the community, and for ORC. We know opportunity next year to place feedback with the community, changed the way how important it is that people are on the Long-term Plan for 2021-31. many of our staff work and caused us aware of and understand the rules, to re-evaluate our funding to avoid a and we’re taking an education-first In the meantime, we’ll keep doing our general rates increase for Otago. approach to implementation. Head over best to roll with the Covid punches, to Besides the pandemic and lockdown, to our website for information about keep you informed and up to date about we’ve also been busy with urgent work in what the new rules might mean for you. changes affecting you, and to work collaboratively on implementing new the water policy area, getting our heads We recently signed off on sixteen new rules for the good of our environment. around the new requirements of national staff in our Consents team to manage water regulations and planning for the the requirements of the new rules. He waka eke noa – next ten years through our Long-term These new team members will be We’re all in this together. Plan. recruited over the coming months and In July, Councillors voted for change distributed around the region, including around the governance table, and I took in North and South Otago. Andrew Noone Chair, Otago Regional Council up the role as Chair. I’m keen to get the Staff have been hard at work on our new Council working constructively on the Regional Policy Statement. This was on same page, and to take full advantage of track for notification this year, but due to an additional requirement introduced by the new Essential Freshwater 2 Catchment group support Otago Regional Councillor Bryan Scott said that catchment groups come in many shapes and sizes and already do a lot of great work on the ground. “Ideally, this strategic support will assist them on their respective journeys, particularly those that are evolving or endeavouring to get to the next level. “One of the many great things about catchment groups is that regardless of current politics or policies, people of all backgrounds can simply roll up their sleeves and work together to achieve positive things for their waterways and environment. “The Otago Regional Council is absolutely thrilled to support this initiative," Cr Scott said. The umbrella organisation will now work The Waitahuna/Tuapeka Catchment Group during a stream health monitoring session with NZ Landcare Trust. to establish itself as a legal entity and recruit for roles to support catchment groups to improve water quality throughout Otago. LAKE WANAKA What are catchments and catchment groups? WAI WANAKA A catchment is a bounded area of land where surface and sub- surface water flows into streams, rivers and wetlands. Land use LINDIS practices across a catchment— good and bad—can impact the quality of freshwater in those waterways. NOSLAM LAKE THOMSONS HAYES Catchment groups are local CREEK communities of people working together to understand and UPPER improve water quality within a COAL TAIERI EAST catchment. Catchment groups CREEK OTAGO pursue opportunities to enhance water quality and resolve water quality issues, and they involve diverse membership from the people living in a catchment area. Catchment groups undertake WAITAHUNA a range of activities to improve POMAHAKA the natural environment, such TOKOMAIRIRO as monitoring water quality, WAIWERA LAKE TUAKITOTO fencing waterways, riparian planting, protecting native plants, LOWER CLUTHA managing pests, and more. OWAKA Catchment group coverage Crucially, catchment groups share in Otago. Map drawn from knowledge and develop integrated information provided by plans for collaborative approaches NZ Landcare Trust. to good environmental practice. 3 Implementing Essential Freshwater New rules to protect and enhance New Zealand’s waterways are now in place—and they may affect you. On 5 August, the government gazetted new national direction on freshwater management, signing a suite of regulations into law. The package includes a new National region’s farmers, and prioritising the Policy Statement for Freshwater most urgent work,” Cr Noone said. Rules for Intensive Management, new National Winter Grazing Environmental Standards for Freshwater, Education First Under the new rules, farmers will new stock exclusion regulations Regulatory General Manager Richard require a consent for intensive under section 360 of the Resource Saunders said that compliance with winter grazing activities where the Management Act, and an amendment previous rules in Otago was good, but activity does not comply with the to the Resource Management work was required to get up to speed permitted activity criteria. (Measurement and Reporting of Water with the new regulations. Takes) Regulations 2010. However, if you carried out winter “We saw good results from our annual grazing this year, and you’re not ORC has to give effect to the National winter compliance flights in July, with planning any changes to the scale, Policy Statement for Freshwater a lot of positive changes clearly visible scope or intensity of your wintering, Management through our regional plans from the air in how farmers were then you may have “existing use and our Regional Policy Statement. The managing winter grazing and other land rights” and not require consent for National Environmental Standards are use practices. Out of the hundreds of winter 2021. effectively nationwide rules, which apply properties we flew over, there were nine across the country regardless of regional that needed following up on the ground. Even if you have existing use rights, plans. you may need to apply for a consent “But the new National Environmental under the new rules by 31 October The new regulations have had effect Standards will tighten the restrictions, 2021 for the 2022 season. We since 3 September, however, while some especially around winter grazing, in encourage farmers to engage with parts need to be addressed immediately, future.” ORC early to discuss their individual others have a period of time built in for Richard said ORC was taking an requirements.
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