Our WaterMatters project is a web-based information system for individual consent holders and those organisations in the region interested in water management. It allows individual consent holders to monitor their water use from their computer at home rather than in the back paddock and it allows water management zone monitoring in order to ensure consistency with our predetermined water resource levels.

 

Into the future, this sort of system will allow us more flexibility with land owners who might wish to trade water and will also allow the Regional Council to make water available to other parties where allocated volumes are not being used.

Our data is summarised once a day and updated after midnight to show the amount of water used in a management zone and the whole catchment.

Visitors to our site can view the majority of this data, while registered members (consent holders only) can log in to view more specific water use data.

The website also displays where flow restrictions are occurring and what the levels of water allocation are in terms of the amount of water consented for and the amount actually being used. 

The main Horizons website has useful information on consents, downloadable consents documents and forms, and State of the Environment Reports.