END OF IRRIGATION SEASON

May 7, 2024

The 2023/2024 irrigation season will end today, Tuesday 7^th May.

ECAN have set the irrigation flow for the Waimakariri River @ 42.4 cumec for tomorrow and reduced the water take to 7% allocation, this means we no longer have enough water for any zone to irrigate.

For those shareholders who are needing water to wrap up irrigators or continue to fill on-farm irrigation ponds can you please continue to liaise with William Tallott or weekend on call staff on 0275231295.

We also plan to carry out other general maintenance works over the coming months and will keep you informed if this affects you.

If you have any general questions, please do not hesitate to contact me. For any water requests please contact William or weekend on call staff on the phone number above.

Thank you
Jamie Hamilton
Operations Manager

Waimakariri Irrigation Limited

Address:
267 High Street
PO Box 556
Rangiora

Phone: 03 313 0200
Email: admin@wil.co.nz

The Waimakariri Irrigation Ltd Scheme is a shareholder-owned cooperative company with consent to take water 11.041 cumecs from the Waimakariri River. Water is drawn from the Waimakariri River at Browns Rock for distribution through 1,100 kilometres of open race channels to supply around 200 shareholders. The Scheme supplies farms covering approximately 30,000 ha within an overall area of 78,000 ha and is located between the Waimakariri and the Ashley Rivers and between Oxford and Rangiora townships.

END OF IRRIGATION SEASON

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