Mountains to Sea Webinar Recording
Channel: Tasman District Council
Date: 09/11/2023

What do you want freshwater in the Tasman region to look like?
The last few decades have seen a decline in the health and quality of some streams, rivers, groundwater, and wetlands around our region.
To improve and maintain the health of our waterbodies, we are developing new rules and regulations for land and freshwater management. At each stage of this process, we check that what we are doing lines up with what people and communities want.
First, we set the Freshwater Management Unit (FMU) areas in the Tasman region where the new rules will apply. Then we developed draft long-term visions and values for each FMU based on your feedback.
We’ve taken those revised visions and values and created a draft environmental outcome for each of the values. We now need your feedback on those outcomes.
The draft environmental outcomes will set the direction for the new plan change and will inform targets and limits for land and freshwater use in the region, and the rules that we need to achieve them.
As the outcomes define our end goal, it’s important we get them right, and that they reflect what the people of Tasman want the region’s land and freshwater to look like in the future.