A committee which will help Environment Canterbury (ECan)
manage water in the lower Waitaki catchment and Waitaki
district will be chaired by Glenavy farmer Robin Murphy.
The Lower Waitaki-South Coastal Canterbury water management
zone committee was set up by ECan with the Waitaki and
Waimate district councils under the Canterbury Water
Management Strategy.
The committee elected Mr Murphy chairman, and
environmentalist and farmer Kate White, of Kurow, deputy
chairman.
Mr Murphy will also be the committee's representative on the
regional committee.
Mr Murphy is a dairy farmer and chairman of the Morven
Glenavy Ikawai Irrigation company.
Other members selected as community representatives were
farmer Matthew Ross (Duntroon), Meridian Energy Ltd
partnership manager Sean McCready (West Melton), land manager
in the forestry industry Andrew Cocking (Timaru) and a member
of the Waitaha tribe Anne Te Maiharoa-Dodds (Glenavy).
Appointees to the committee were Cr Peter McIlraith (Waimate
District Council), Cr Geoff Keeling (Waitaki District
Council), Patrick Tipa (Moeraki runanga), Te Wera King
(Waihao runanga), Mandy Home (Arowhenua runanga) and
Environment Canterbury commissioner Peter Skelton.
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