Regional Fresh Water Plan

Download the full Plan here, or scroll down and download the Plan rules as separate documents. Amendments have been made to the Plan to comply with the National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management 2020 and to include advisory notes for the National Environmental Standards for Plantation Forestry 2018 and the National Environmental Standards for Freshwater 2020. For further information please see sections 1.7 and 7 of the Plan or email the Council.

• TRC Regional Freshwater Plan for Taranaki (amended October 2023) (22 MB pdf)
• Appendix 1A: Catchments with high natural, ecological and amenity values (192 KB pdf)
• Appendix 1B: Catchments identified for enhancement of values (141 KB pdf)
• Appendix 2A: Values of protected wetlands in the Taranaki region (182 KB pdf)
• Appendix 2B: Values of regional significant unprotected wetlands in the Taranaki region (169 KB pdf)
• Appendix 3: Wetlands with nationally or regionally rare, threatened or uncommon flora or fauna (36 KB pdf)
• Appendix 4: Catchment maps (707 KB pdf)
• Appendix 5: Surface water quality guidelines (106 KB pdf)
• Appendix 6: Good agrichemical spray management practices (106 KB pdf)
• Appendix 7: Good management practices for discharge of agricultural effluent (397 KB pdf)
• Appendix 8: Guidelines for groundwater bores and wells (122 KB pdf)
• Appendix 9: Defined urban catchments (1.5 MB pdf)
• Appendix 10: Statutory acknowledgements (965 KB pdf)

These documents set out and explain the 87 rules contained in the Regional Fresh Water Plan for Taranaki

• Introduction and guide to regional rules (279 KB pdf)
• Rules 1-14: Hangatahua (Stony) River catchment (325 KB pdf)
• Rules 15-20: Taking, use, damming and diversion of surface water (excluding Stony) (260 KB pdf)
• Rules 21-45: Discharges of contaminants to land and water (excluding Stony) (445 KB pdf)
• Rules 46-51: Groundwater (217 KB pdf)
• Rules 52-76: Uses of river and lake beds (excluding Stony catchment) (416 KB pdf)
• Rules 77-79: Land drainage (excluding Stony catchment) (233 KB pdf)
• Rules 80-87: Wetlands (246 KB pdf)
• Explanation of the rules (244 KB pdf)

This document sets out the Taranaki Regional Council’s staged implementation programme of key projects for implementing the National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management 2014. It supersedes the Council’s previous implementation programme publicly notified in 2015.

• Progressive Implmentation Programme for the NPS-FW (1.8 MB pdf)