[2020] NZEnvC130 Lindis Catchment Group Incorporated v Otago Regional Council [pdf, 6.5 MB]
...positioned not at take point 7a on Cluden Stream but somewhere on the Richmond valley race closer to the divide between the catchments. Potentially damaging flood water in the race could be "diverted"30 back into the Cluden catchment by a carefully planned spillway. We propose a condition about that. [34] As for the second scenario, because it is possible that there is a natural barrier in Cluden Stream which prevents trout swimming into the upper stream, it is possible that...