Isaac Conservation and Wildlife Trust are slowly rehabilitating a former quarry west of Christchurch by planting out waterways and quarried land with native trees and shrubs. To establish the native plantings the water authorised under an old border dyke irrigation consent was partially transferred within their site to allow the irrigation the new plants and plant beds.
The Trust needed the new water takes to be flexible in location so they could be moved as areas of native planting were established and include fish screens to prevent fish in the surface water bodies from being adversely affected.
The existing take was in a sensitive environment with strict environmental controls. e2Environmental worked proactively with Environment Canterbury to assess the activity and to develop practical, easily monitored consent conditions.
e2environmental successfully transferred the water takes to allow the Trust to continue their conservation and naturalisation activities.
Project manager(s)
Lindsay Blakie
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