Irrigators, this is intended as an interim update of the current situation with the lake and irrigation restrictions. The lake is within days of reaching…
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Please plan to shut off your irrigation systems this Wednesday. We have reached the bottom of the bucket. By Wednesday the lake will be at…
Retrieved from http://ecan.govt.nz/news-and-notices/news/pages/environment-can-welcomes-drought-declaration.aspx Environment Canterbury today welcomed the declaration by the Minister for Primary Industries, Hon Nathan Guy, of a medium-scale adverse event from the “big…
Revenue Minister Todd McClay today welcomed Inland Revenue’s decision to exercise its income equalisation discretion to help provide relief for drought-affected farmers in the eastern…
We are unfortunately looking very likely to reach the limit of our water storage where we are going to have to shut down all irrigation….
There have been hints of rain around the region over the last 5 days which lifted river flows slightly and gave us perhaps a couple…
It will be painfully apparent to you all that there has been no relief from the weather over the last three weeks and our lake…
We are currently operating under a 25% restriction regime however the lake level is still declining and we will hit our next trigger level of…
We appear to have had a short lived but reasonable rain through the catchment on Sunday 21st. At this stage though we do not expect this…
The storage has continued to decline and 50% restrictions are to be implemented from Tuesday 16th December for two weeks. Please now be prepared to…
