Farmer led community catchment groups have evolved in Southland over the last few years. They have a general purpose of increasing awareness and understanding of water quality issues and environmental policy changes through community engagement and information transfer. While each group is different, it is not a ‘one size fits all’ model, and they have...

Other confined aquifers exist in Southland but are not specifically acknowledged in regional plans due either small size or limited resource use. The Lumsden and North Range aquifers are situated in Quaternary age alluvial deposits. These accumulations of gravel, sand, silt and clay were lain down by rivers many years ago and are now buried below the...

The dams form part of Environment Southland's flood protection infrastructure. The flood protection network, including 516 km of stopbanks, 7 dams and associated culverts and structures protects major population centres, smaller townships and large swathes of rural production land. Environment Southland maintains four detention dams and three retention...

Current Resource Consents in the Southland Region. This data set comes from data held within the Consents module of the Integrated Regional Information System (IRIS) database. IRIS comprises a set of regional council-specific business modules covering the business areas of Consents, Compliance Monitoring, Environmental Monitoring, Biosecurity,...

The information provided is derived from Environment Southland's Selected Land Use Sites (SLUS) register only and is made available to you under the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987. Environment Southland has made every effort to ensure the accuracy of the location, extent, and relevant information about each HAIL activity on...

Gore Airshed Boundary For information about Southland's air quality visit Breathe Easy Southland - http://www.breatheeasysouthland.co.nz/

Within the floodplain areas, the likelihood of flooding varies considerably depending on the existence and standard of any flood alleviation works and the height of the particular site.

How this dataset was created A. A series of 31 satellite images was acquired between February and October 2017. These were from Sentinel-2A and -2B and Landsat-8. Each image was cloud-masked and then classified separately into land cover classes. B. A rule-set was used to draw together evidence from the time-series of 31 per-pixel land cover...

Invercargill Airshed Boundary For information about Southland's air quality visit Breathe Easy Southland - http://www.breatheeasysouthland.co.nz/

Existing and proposed Bore locations including attributes in the Southland region. Please note the information extracted here is from numerous 3rd party sources that has not been fully verified by Environment Southland, for specific enquiries please email DataRequest@es.govt.nz and we shall endeavour to assist you.

Current Resource Consents in the Southland Region. This data set comes from data held within the Consents module of the Integrated Regional Information System (IRIS) database. IRIS comprises a set of regional council-specific business modules covering the business areas of Consents, Compliance Monitoring, Environmental Monitoring, Biosecurity,...

Drainage channel maintained by Environment Southland on behalf of the Ratepayers.

Flood Protection maintained by Environment Southland on behalf of the Ratepayers.

Groundwater zones effectively encompass separate groundwater systems and are utilised as a framework for monitoring, investigation and management of groundwater resources in the Southland region. These groundwater zones are delineated on the basis of hydrogeological properties, geomorphology, groundwater - surface water interaction, observed variations in...

Floodway means an area managed by Environment Southland that has the effect or is intended to have the effect of regulating or controlling the flow or spread of flood water. Floodway areas are included in this layer, and in Appendix 2 of the bylaw. The areas are indicative, they are defined more precisely in the bylaw. The Southland Flood Control and...

Tertiary aquifers are those that occur in older Tertiary age sedimentary deposits (between 66 and 2.6 million years old). Geological reports, maps, and borelogs have been used to identify discreet aquifer units within the Tertiary age geological formations that exist in Southland. These formations consist of a combination of terrestrial, intertidal and...

The dams form part of Environment Southland's flood protection infrastructure. The flood protection network, including 458 km of stopbanks, 7 dams and associated culverts and structures protects major population centres, smaller townships and large swathes of rural production land. Environment Southland maintains four detention dams and three retention...

Farmer led community catchment groups have evolved in Southland over the last few years. They have a general purpose of increasing awareness and understanding of water quality issues and environmental policy changes through community engagement and information transfer. While each group is different, it is not a ‘one size fits all’ model, and they have...

Groundwater zones effectively encompass separate groundwater systems and are utilised as a framework for monitoring, investigation and management of groundwater resources in the Southland region. These groundwater zones are classified into four basic aquifer types which aggregate spatially separate aquifer systems on the basis of similarities in...

The amount of shaking felt in any given earthquake varies with the strength of the subsoil and underlying rock at the location. The soil and rock condition has been mapped as an indicator of the capacity for amplified shaking. Generally, floodplain soils have the potential to amplify shaking. As such, it is likely that in much of Southland the severity of...