A breach of minimum flow restrictions on the Kakanui River continues to be investigated, Otago Regional Council, director resource management Selva Selvarajah says.
The council launched an investigation in early January to look at farmers who took water out of the river after it had reached its minimum flow.
The rivers were covered by consents under the Resource Management Act, and farmers had to stop taking water if they ran below 0.25cumecs, and could not start taking water until flows reached 0.4cumecs.
Dr Selvarajah said at a compliance committee meeting last week a lack of communication between the council's systems and farmers had been identified.
Chief executive Graeme Martin said the data the council needed had not been provided as farmers had not passed it on to their allocation committee.
Cr Doug Brown said he hoped a lesson would be learnt from the situation that all involved needed to play their part.
