Clean Streams is a Waikato Regional Council project to encourage and support farmer efforts to reduce the impacts of farming on waterways. Advice for fencing and planting waterway margins is available.
On this page: Clean Streams, Clean Streams – guideline booklet, Livestock exclusion areas, More information
Clean Streams – guideline booklet
The guideline booklet 'Clean Streams' explains how farming can affect waterways. It offers practical suggestions about what farmers can do, and what works best where on a farm, together with illustrations and photographs of Waikato examples.
Clean Streams - guideline booklet
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The Farm Environment Awards Trust factsheet 'Managing Waterways on Farms' gives examples of farmers who have taken action, and shows the benefits they have found as a result.
Work out the cost of managing waterways on your farm
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Managing waterways on farms
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Livestock exclusion areas
The livestock exclusion rule in the Waikato Regional Plan, which came into effect in April 2006, means stock must be kept out of specified waterways in the region, including:
- any stream flowing into Lake Taupo
- streams flowing into a harbour or estuary and within two kilometres of the coastal marine area
- margins of significant wetlands in the region and most Waikato lakes
- some specified streams on the Coromandel Peninsula and other specified streams throughout the region.
A full list of stock-excluded waterways is available in the Waikato Regional Plan. You can also ask your local Waikato Regional Council land management officer for more information - call them on our freephone 0800 800 401.
More information
Make sure you consult our farmers' guides to permitted activities.
You can also check out our river management guidelines, and find out more about river and catchment management in the Waikato region.
Check out the Ministry for the Environment's culvert and bridge design guidelines.