Description: About Waiora Northland WaterWaiora Northland Water is all about working together to better manage our region’s precious freshwater resources. It brings together both existing and new Northland Regional Council work to improve the quality and management of our lakes, rivers, aquifers and wetlands.New government requirements for managing freshwaterAlongside the council’s existing work on water quality and water use, Waiora Northland Water encompasses new government requirements for managing freshwater.Under the National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management 2014, regional councils will collaborate with communities to set goals and standards for managing freshwater resources. You can read this policy statement on the Ministry for the Environment’s website: http://www.mfe.govt.nz/rma/central/nps/freshwater-management.html We initially focus on first priority catchments and outstanding waterbodies, and then move on to other areas. We will also address water management region-wide, establishing standards for Northland’s other water bodies that will be progressively reviewed on a priority basis. The implementation programme for the National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management in the Northland Region is available to download below:Waiora Northland Water implementation programme information (PDF, 829 KB)Local input on local water managementThe council is looking at our waters at a local area level and bringing together local stakeholders to help decide how they’ll be managed.On a priority basis, local catchment groups will be formed from people with a local interest in water issues. These groups will work to provide local input and recommendations on maintaining and improving freshwater in their area.Catchment groups will have nominated representatives from a range local interests – for example, iwi/hapū, landowners, industry (like farming and forestry), environmental groups, recreational users and councils.This approach brings together people with differing viewpoints and requires them to listen to other viewpoints, compromise and strive for consensus on how their local waters can best be managed for generations to come.Better integrated managementWe know freshwater quality has a major influence on our coastal environment, so we are taking an integrated approach with Waiora Northland Water. Our work to improve freshwater management will also link to our work in the harbours, estuaries and coast of Northland and that of our neighbours in Auckland.In managing our freshwater we’ll build on what works well, using region-wide approaches where appropriate and localised solutions for specific issues.For example, we’ll continue to encourage good practice and promote it through our Environment Fund. We have existing rules set out in our Regional Water and Soil Plan. We’ll introduce plan changes where necessary to update those rules and better manage our freshwater resources for generations to come.Presentation - Policy framework for freshwater managementThis Policy Framework for Freshwater Management presentation was made to the catchment groups throughout July and August 2014.Policy framework for freshwater management - presentation (PDF, 602KB)
Description: The New Zealand Land Cover Database (LCDB) is a multi-temporal, thematic classification of New Zealand's land cover. It contains 33 mainland classes (35 including the offshore Chatham Islands). The classification has evolved from version to version but backward compatibility has been maintained. Geographic features are described by a polygon boundary, a land cover code, and a land cover name at each of four nominal time steps; summer 1996/97, summer 2001/02, summer 2008/09, and summer 2012/13. The data set is designed to complement in theme, scale and accuracy, Land Information New Zealand’s 1:50,000 topographic database. LCDB is suitable for use in national and regional state-of-environment monitoring, forest and shrubland inventory, biodiversity assessment, trend analysis and infrastructure planning. The classification used in LCDB v4.1 is presented in the document 'LCDBClassesAtVersion4.1.pdf' and a table correlating LCDB classes over all four LCDB versions is presented in the document 'LCDBClassCorrelations.pdf'. Both of these documents are available as an attachment to this dataset in the LRIS portal (https://lris.scinfo.org.nz/) and on the LCDB project site (www.lcdb.scinfo.org.nz). LCDB v4.1 was released in July 2015 and includes corrections to all time steps 1996/97, 2001/02, 2008/09 and 2012/13. A description of work undertaken for this release (including that in all earlier releases) is presented in the Lineage section. Of particular note at 4.1 is the re-mapping of Chatham Islands - first mapped at version 2, but then not continued through versions 3.0, 3.3, and 4.0 because of resource constraints. “EditAuthority” and "EditDate" are attributes, maintained since version 3.0 to indicate authorship and nominal date of polygon mapping, edit or change. The data is referenced to the New Zealand Transverse Mercator 2000 projection (NZTM2000) which uses the NZ Geodetic Datum 2000 (NZGD2000). Errors in the data due to misclassification (not changes since mapping) or poor delineation can be reported to Landcare Research for inclusion in the next release using the online feedback mechanisms in https://lris.scinfo.org.nz/.
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Copyright Text: Funding is from the Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment under contract CO9X1101, with both supplementary funding and imagery contributed by the Ministry for the Environment. The Department of Conservation, Ministry for the Environment, Land Information New Zealand, regional councils, territorial authorities and other users have made significant in-kind contributions by providing related datasets, checking the draft mapping in their areas of interest and commenting on public releases.
Description: Location of locally and regionally significant swimming holes in Northland. Extracted from 2013 RiVAS reporting in Objective (OBJ REF A602171)
Description: This set of lake catchment attribute data was mostly created during the research that led to the development of the Freshwater Environments of NZ classification for lakes by NIWA staff for all NZ lake catchemnts between 2005-2008. It also includes a small number of predictors that were developed as part of the original REC classification. In developing these attributes, strong emphasis was placed on the need for functionally relevant predictors of the distributions of species and/or ecosystems, while working within the limitations imposed by having to work with existing input data at national scales. Descriprions of the variables are provided in the Snelder et al (2006).
References
Snelder, T. (2006). Development of variables for Freshwater Environments of New Zealand (FWENZ) lakes. NIWA Client Report CHC2006-065 prepared for the Department of Conservation.