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Part 1: Regional Policy Statement
Chapter 1
Setting The Scene
Chapter 2
Te Ao Māori
Chapter 3
Infrastructure, Energy, Waste, Hazardous Substances and Contaminated Land
Chapter 4
Land
Chapter 5
Water
5.1 Scope and Background
5.1.2 Overview
5.1.3 Water Quantity
5.1.4 Water Quality
5.1.5 Beds of Rivers and Lakes
5.2 Significant Resource Management Issues
5.3 Objectives
5.4 Policies
5.4.2 Water Quality
5.4.2.2 Groundwater Quality
5.4.2.3 Discharges^ and Land^ use Activities Affecting Water^ Quality
5.4.3 Water Quantity and Allocation
5.4.3.2 Policies for Surface Water
5.4.3.3 Policies for Bores* and Groundwater
5.4.4 Beds of Rivers and Lakes
5.5 Methods
5.6 Anticipated Environmental Results
5.7 Explanations and Principal Reasons
Chapter 6
Indigenous Biological Diversity, Landscape and Historic Heritage
Chapter 7
Air
Chapter 8
Coast
Chapter 9
Natural Hazards
Chapter 10
Administration
Part 2: Regional Plan
Part 3: Annexes
Glossary
Chapter 5: Water
5.4.2 Water Quality
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5.4.2.1 Surface Water Quality
Policy 5-2:
Water quality targets*
In Schedule E
4
,
water quality targets*
relating to the Schedule B Values (repeated in
Table 5.2
) are identified for each
Water Management Sub-Zone*
. Other than where they are incorporated into
permitted activity^
rules as
conditions^
to be met, the water
quality targets*
in Schedule E must be used to inform the management of surface
water^
quality in the manner set out in
Policies 5-3
,
5-4
and
5-5
.
4
Schedule A is not a component of Part I - the Regional Policy Statement. It is a component of Part II - the Regional Plan.
Policy 5-3
: Ongoing compliance where
water quality targets*
are met
Where the existing
water^
quality meets the relevant
Schedule E
water quality targets*
within a
Water Management Sub-zone*
,
water^
quality must be managed in a manner which ensures that the
water quality targets*
continue to be met beyond the zone of reasonable mixing (where mixing is applicable).
For the avoidance of doubt:
in circumstances where the existing
water^
quality of a
Water Management Sub-zone*
meets all of the
water quality targets*
for the
Sub-zone*
(a) applies to every
water quality target*
for the Sub-zone*
in circumstances where the existing
water^
quality of a
Water Management Sub-zone*
meets some of the
water quality targets*
for the
Sub-zone*
(a) applies only to those
water quality targets*
that are met
for the purpose of (a) reasonable mixing is only applicable to a
discharge^
from an identifiable location.
Policy 5-4
: Enhancement where
water quality targets*
are not met
Where the existing
water^
quality does not meet the relevant
Schedule E
water quality targets*
within a
Water Management Sub-zone*
,
water^
quality within that sub-zone must be managed in a manner that enhances existing
water^
quality in order to meet:
the
water quality target*
for the
Water Management Zone*
in
Schedule E
, and/or
the relevant
Schedule B
Values and management objectives that the
water quality target*
is designed to safeguard.
For the avoidance of doubt:
in circumstances where the existing
water^
quality of a
Water Management Sub-zone*
does not meet all of the
water quality targets
* for the
Sub-zone*
, (a) applies to every
water quality target*
for the Sub-zone
in circumstances where the existing
water^
quality of a
Water Management Sub-zone*
does not meet some of the
water quality targets*
for the
Sub-zone*
, (a) applies only to those
water quality targets*
not met.
Policy 5-5
: Management of
water^
quality in areas where existing
water^
quality is unknown
Where there is insufficient data to enable a comparison of the existing
water^
quality with the relevant
Schedule E
water quality targets*
,
water^
quality within the
Water Management Sub-Zone^
must be managed in a manner which, beyond the zone of reasonable mixing (where reasonable mixing is applicable):
maintains or enhances the existing
water^
quality
has regard to the likely effect of the activity on the relevant
Schedule B
Values that the
water quality target*
is designed to safeguard
has regard to relevant information about the existing
water^
quality in upstream or downstream Water Management Sub-zones*, where such information exists.
For the avoidance of doubt:
in circumstances where there is insufficient data to enable a comparison of the existing
water^
quality with all of the water quality targets* for a
Water Management Sub-zone*
(a) applies to every
water quality target*
for the
Sub-zone*
in circumstances where there is insufficient data to enable a comparison of the existing
water^
quality with some of the
water quality targets*
for a
Water Management Sub-zone*
(a) applies only to those
water quality targets*
with insufficient data
for the purpose of (a) reasonable mixing is only applicable to a
discharge^
from an identifiable location.
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