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A state-of-the art fish screening facility in mid-Canterbury prevents fish from entering the Rangitata diversion race intake at Klondyke and being swept into the 67km-long canal scheme.
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Rangitata Diversion Race Management Ltd chief executive Tony McCormick is looking forward to the commissioning of the new fish screen.
A massive $17 million fish screen project is underway for New Zealand s biggest irrigation scheme that starts in the Rangitata River. Rangitata Diversion Race Management Ltd (RDRML) chief executive Tony McCormick said the project was in response to concerns from anglers and runanga about fish, particularly sports fish such as salmon, and native fish such as galaxiids, getting caught into the 67-kilometre long irrigation race which extends from an intake on the Rangitata River at Klondyke to a discharge at Highbank on the Rakaia River.
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Part of the Rangitata Diversion Race. The company has decided to relinquish its consent to take an extra 10 cumecs from the River when it is in high flow. (File)
An irrigation company s decision to relinquish its consent to take extra water from the Rangitata River when in high flow has been hailed as a “gift to New Zealand” by anglers. Rangitata Diversion Race Management Ltd (RDRML) was awarded the consent to take an extra 10 cumecs in water when the river was flowing 110 cumecs or higher by an Environment Canterbury-appointed independent panel in 2018. However, appeals by Fish and Game, Ngāi Tahu and Te Rūnanga o Arowhenua to the Environment Court had delayed the consent s implementation.