Balmoral Water Storage Facility and Fish Screen

Project summary

A project to:

• construct and operate a ring dam providing approximately 10 million cubic metres of water storage for Amuri Irrigation Company Limited's irrigation scheme.

• install a fish screen structure

• divert approximately 1.5 cubic metres per second of water from Hurunui River.

Project location

Amuri Basin of the Hurunui River, within Balmoral Forest adjacent to Tekoa Road, 20 kilometres west of Culverden, Canterbury.

Project listing application

Balmoral Water Storage Facility and Fish Screen application – Ministry for the Environment website