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Water-bottling ruling near By Susan Sandys
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Environment Canterbury is expecting to make a decision within the next couple of weeks on whether to publicly notify a consent application from The Fairton LP. The company has applied to convert a dairy irrigation consent relating to a bore on a prop-
erty it owns on the outskirts of Ashburton for water bottling purposes. “The consent application is still in process and no notification decision has yet been made,” an Environment Canterbury spokesperson said. “We expect this will occur in the next couple of weeks.” The Fairton LP has an active
consent granted in 2012, to take and use water from the bore for irrigation. It has now applied to ECan to convert the consent to one for water bottling, and has flagged other commercial uses of water at the site, such as craft beer manufacturing. Its application seeks non-notification, claiming the effects of
the operation at the site will be minor. Non-notified consents are significantly cheaper and quicker to process. But if there are likely to be adverse effects on the environment or there are people who may be adversely affected from whom the applicant can not obtain written approval, public notifi-
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cation is advised. If successful in getting the consent alteration, the company is then likely to apply to the Ashburton District Council for resource consent for land use as the land is zoned Rural B.
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