Read these factsheets if you take water for irrigation, grow crops, farm livestock, develop land, do any work in a waterway or do any trade or industrial development.
Culverts
Rules for installing culverts.
Fertiliser application
Guide for good fertiliser management
Farm dam
Rules for building a farm dam
Gravel takes from rivers
New rules for taking gravel from rivers to help protect the resource, the water quality and native fish and birds.
Stormwater run-off
Rules for industrial and trade activities to reduce pollution getting into stormwater and into waterways.
Water permit for irrigation
You need a water permit if you want to irrigate on an area larger than 1 hectare.
Water permits on Poverty Bay Flats
Rules for water permits on the Poverty Bay Flats and Waipaoa Catchment.
Water takes
Requirements for non-consented water takes.
Winter intensive grazing
Rule for intensively grazed or break feeding animals on crops or pasture
Vegetable and maize cropping
Rules for farms with more than 1 hectare of vegetable or maize crops.