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Chatham Island Tsunami Evacuation Zones
Environment CanterburyThis dataset shows the tsunami evacuation zones for the Chatham Islands Council, drawn in December 2017. What do the zones mean? The Red Zone is the shore exclusion zone, including beaches, estuaries, river mouths and Te Whanga Lagoon. Even if a tsunami is not big enough to flood land, it can cause strong and unusual currents in the water, and...Created 3 June 2024 • Updated 3 February 2025 -
Plan Change 5 (LWRP) - Northern Fan FMU
Environment CanterburyNorthern Fan FMU as shown in the proposed Plan Change 5 to the Land & Water Regional Plan. The proposed changes seek to deal with the management of the effects of land uses, particularly farming activities, on water quality throughout the Canterbury region and the management of water quality in the Waitaki sub-region, and flows in Whitneys Creek....Created 1 October 2023 • Updated 3 February 2025 -
NRRP - Christchurch Groundwater Protection Zones
Environment CanterburyThis dataset has no description
Created 1 October 2023 • Updated 3 February 2025 -
Plan Change 5 (LWRP) - Valley and Tributaries FMU
Environment CanterburyThe proposed changes seek to deal with the management of the effects of land uses, particularly farming activities, on water quality throughout the Canterbury region and the management of water quality in the Waitaki sub-region, and flows in Whitneys Creek. Proposed Plan Change 5 comprises two parts. Part A consists of provisions which apply throughout...Created 1 October 2023 • Updated 3 February 2025 -
River Benchmarks
Environment CanterburyBenchmark vertical datum is Lyttelton Vertical Datum 1937. The river benchmarks layer shows the location of survey benchmarks used by the Council to monitor riverbed elevation change. These benchmarks are protected by the Flood Protection and Drainage Bylaw, any work proposed around these locations should be checked with the Environment Canterbury River...Created 1 October 2023 • Updated 3 February 2025 -
River Rating Districts - Localised River
Environment CanterburyEnvrionment Canterbury River Rating Districts - Localised River layer.Created 1 September 2022 • Updated 3 February 2025 -
Transfer Station / Recycling Centre
Environment CanterburyTransfer Stations / Recycling Centres in the Canterbury Region.Created 1 October 2023 • Updated 3 February 2025 -
Flood protection vegetation boundary (Flood Protection and Drainage Bylaw...
Environment CanterburyThis layer was amended in January 2019. A draft boundary line shows areas of vegetation retained under the Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Act (1941). A desired boundaryline showsareas where it would be beneficial to increase the vegetated buffer width to the land side so that a consistent protective buffer can be achieved. In some cases, on the...Created 1 October 2023 • Updated 3 February 2025 -
Stopbanks (Flood Protection and Drainage Bylaw 2013 - amended 2019)
Environment CanterburyThis layer was amended in January 2019 Stopbanks (Flood Protection and Drainage Bylaw 2013). The Flood Protection and Drainage Bylaw was made operative on 2 April 2013 and provides for the ongoing management and effective operation of flood protection and drainage works that are owned or controlled by Environment Canterbury. These include drainage...Created 1 September 2022 • Updated 3 February 2025 -
Stopbanks - 20m exclusion (Flood Protection and Drainage Bylaw 2013 - amended 2019)
Environment CanterburyThis layer was amended in January 2019 Stopbanks - 20 m exclusion (Flood Protection and Drainage Bylaw 2013) The Flood Protection and Drainage Bylaw was made operative on 2 April 2013 and provides for the ongoing management and effective operation of flood protection and drainage works that are owned or controlled by Environment Canterbury. These include...Created 1 September 2022 • Updated 3 February 2025 -
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
