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Floodways (Flood Protection and Drainage Bylaw 2013 - amended 2019)
Environment CanterburyThis layer was amended in January 2019 Floodways as defined in the Flood Protection and Drainage Bylaw 2013. See RMA definition of riverbed and NRRP guidance 6.2 2 2. Generally, a river bed line shows the outside toe of the stopbank where there are stopbanks (provided the stopbank is of a sufficient standard), a terrace, or, where there are no well-...Created 1 September 2022 • Updated 3 February 2025 -
Drains and watercourses (Flood Protection and Drainage Bylaw 2013 - amended 2019)
Environment CanterburyThis layer was amended in January 2019. This dataset has been created from the a georeferenced plans and Engineering knowledge of the drains that the Regional Council manages and maintains through out the region. Note equipment used by the regional council needs at most 7.5m strip alongside the drain. Buffering of 10m has been added so as to alleviate any...Created 1 October 2023 • Updated 3 February 2025 -
Kaikoura District Fault Avoidance Zones
Environment CanterburyFault Avoidance Zones were developed for Kaikoura District and documented in Litchfield NJ, Morgenstern R, Van Dissen RJ, Langridge RM, Pettinga JR, Jack H, Barrell DJA, Villamor P 2018. Updated assessment of active faults in the Kaikōura District. GNS Science consultancy report 2018/141.Created 1 October 2023 • Updated 3 February 2025 -
Canterbury Fault Awareness Areas 2019
Environment CanterburyThe fault awareness areas show areas where there may be a surface fault rupture hazard. Surface fault rupture is the permanent breaking, ripping, buckling or warping of the ground on or near the line where a fault meets the ground surface, as a result of movement on the fault. It is different from earthquake shaking. This dataset has been compiled from...Created 1 September 2022 • Updated 3 February 2025 -
Hurunui Waiau River Regional Plan - Groundwater Allocation Zones
Environment CanterburyGroundwater Allocation Zones as defined in the Hurunui Waiau River Regional Plan.Created 1 September 2022 • Updated 3 February 2025 -
Ashley Fault Avoidance Zone 2020
Environment CanterburyExtent of the Ashley Fault Avoidance Zones. Areas of well-defined and distributed deformation have a 20 m buffer applied as per the Ministry for the Environment guidelines. Areas of uncertain and extended deformation were considered by the report authors to not have been mapped precisely enough to warrant assigning a 20 metre buffer. The joins between the...Created 1 October 2023 • Updated 3 February 2025 -
Surface Water Allocation Zones
Environment CanterburyThis dataset has no description
Created 1 October 2023 • Updated 3 February 2025 -
Kaikoura Earthquake Fault Ruptures 2016
Environment CanterburyMapped fault ruptures associated with the 14 November 2016 Mw7.8 Kaikoura earthquake. Extracted from the New Zealand Active Fault Database, maintained by GNS Science, with a 50m buffer applied. Attribute descriptions are provided in Langridge, et al, 2016, The New Zealand active faults database: NZAFD250.New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 59(1).Created 1 October 2023 • Updated 3 February 2025 -
RCEP - Areas of Banks Peninsula to be Maintained in Present Natural States
Environment CanterburyAreas of Banks Peninsula listed in Schedule 5.13 of the Canterbury Regional Coastal Environment Plan 2005 and Areas of Significant Natural Value that should be maintained in their present natural states; free of additional structures, including marine farms; unless it can be established for those areas that the structures and their use will have no more...Created 1 September 2022 • Updated 3 February 2025 -
Canterbury Water Management Strategy Zones
Environment CanterburyCanterbury Water Management Strategy Zones previously known as the State of Environment (SOEM) Management Zones for water charging.Created 1 October 2023 • Updated 3 February 2025 -
ECan Lakes
Environment CanterburyIntended Use This layer shows lakes for the Canterbury region that have been categorised into Water Quality Management Units and Classes, or Lake Type, defined in the Canterbury Land and Water Regional Plan (LWRP) and various regional plans. Layers were digitised to cadastral accuracy (1:10,000 scale), but recommended use is at the 1:50,000 scale or...Created 1 September 2022 • Updated 3 February 2025 -
Groundwater Quality Zones
Environment CanterburyIntended Use The Groundwater Quality Zones layer shows all zones with quality limits for the Canterbury region that have been defined in the Canterbury Land and Water Regional Plan (LWRP) and various regional plans. This layer compiles several zone types from different plans, including: groundwater provinces, groundwater allocation zones, nitrate...Created 1 September 2022 • Updated 3 February 2025 -
Groundwater Allocation Zones
Environment CanterburyIntended Use The Groundwater Allocation Zones layer collates zones for regulating groundwater use and allocation as defined in the Canterbury Land and Water Regional Plan (LWRP) and various regional plans. This includes groundwater allocation zones, groundwater management zones, and combined surface water and groundwater zones. Layers were digitised to...Created 1 September 2022 • Updated 3 February 2025 -
Biodiversity Projects - Ecosystem Type
Environment CanterburyLocation of biodiversity projects that have received funding support from Environment Canterbury since 2010. Projects have been symbolised by their main ecosystem type. Data Owner: Environment Canterbury, Regional Biodiversity Team Data Source: Biodiversity project database Attributes of the Biodiversity Projects - Ecosystem Type layer: Application...Created 1 October 2023 • Updated 3 February 2025 -
Biodiversity Projects - Fund
Environment CanterburyLocation of biodiversity projects that have received funding support from Environment Canterbury since 2010. Projects have been symbolised by their fund type. Data Owner: Environment Canterbury, Regional Biodiversity Team Data Source: Biodiversity project database (CRM) Attributes of the Biodiversity Projects - Fund layer Application number Unique ID for...Created 1 September 2022 • Updated 3 February 2025 -
ECan River Network
Environment CanterburyIntended UseThe River Network is a geometric network and should be used for visualising the main rivers, streams and drains in Canterbury. It forms the basis for the Rivers for Allocation layer and Stream Depletion Calculations, which link to the Water Allocation Calculator— allocation summary reports to be used by the Customer Services, Planning,...Created 1 October 2023 • Updated 3 February 2025 -
Maritime Markers
Environment CanterburyMaritime Markers in the Canterbury region.Created 1 September 2022 • Updated 3 February 2025 -
RCEP - Erosion Determination Points
Environment CanterburyThese points are used to determine the width of Hazard Zones by interpolating the rate of shoreline retreat between the fixed determination points. For all determination points, except for some special situations listed below, there was no evidence of a change in the long-term rate of shoreline retreat. Therefore, the longest term historical erosion rates...Created 1 October 2023 • Updated 3 February 2025 -
RCEP - Coastal Hazard Zones
Environment CanterburyEnvionment Canterbury has defined two hazard zones along the coast. Hazard Zone 1 is a zone delimited by a line approximately parallel with the shoreline, set inland from mean high water springs,which contains the current active beach system and land that is at risk from coastal erosion of this Plan being produced. Hazard Zone 2 is inland from Hazard Zone...Created 1 September 2022 • Updated 3 February 2025 -
Water Supply
Environment CanterburyWater supply networks in the Canterbury Region.For the Ashburton Water Supply data, please visit this Ashburton LocalMaps.Created 1 September 2022 • Updated 3 February 2025
