South Canterbury Catchment Board

Description

DescriptionIn 1941 the Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Act was passed and later the Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Council was set up. The first catchment boards, including the South Canterbury Board, were constituted in 1944.

The Board served South Canterbury for forty five years before the Local Government Amendment Act of 1989 established regional councils, who inherited their responsibilities. The South Canterbury Catchment Board then came under the Canterbury Regional Council, now known as 'Environment Canterbury' or ECAN.

The Aoraki Heritage Collection holds many publications and reports from the South Canterbury Catchment Board including 'Challenge and change : a history of the South Canterbury Catchment Board & Regional Water Board, 1944-89' by C L McConnell.
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External LinkTimaru District Libraries catalogue: search 'South Canterbury Catchment Board'Geo AddressNew ZealandSubjectEnvironmentLocal Government

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Opihi River, near Fairlie, 15 July 2022.
Image by Wildman NZ, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Connections

EventThe April 1951 South Canterbury FloodsThe December 1957 Canterbury FloodsThe July 1961 Canterbury FloodsThe 1986 South Canterbury Floods