Submitted by admin on April 22, 2009 - 22:29
Catchment Control
At Glenmark, near Waipara, North Canterbury, the combined effect of conservation farm plans, operating over an entire problem catchment, has demonstrated that soil erosion and flooding can be effectively controlled. The progression from single conservation practices to combined conservation and good farming has demonstrated the necessity for, and the advantages of, such group action by all farmers in problem catchments. Catchment boards are successfully promoting several such schemes on catchments up to 120,000 acres.
In addition to the board's administrative rate, any special rate for the community works required in the catchment control scheme must be agreed to by the farmer group, while the conservation works done on each farm are subsidised by the Council through the catchment board.