Environmental projects

The ARC protects the region's natural environment by seeking to minimise the effects of development and pollution on the region's air, land and water. We do this by operating environmental protection, monitoring and conservation programmes.

In this section, you can select a consent activity to find out more about these environmental projects and how your fees contribute to them.

• Coastal marinas
• Coastal marine farms
• Coastal dredging, reclamation and extraction
• Coastal moorings
• Coastal structures
• Discharge to air
• Discharges to land and water
  (Wastewater, Discharge Other, Dairy, Landfill, Contaminated Sites, Animal Waste)
• Discharge of stormwater
• Land use, streamworks
• Takes and dams
• Wastewater pump station overflows

Read more about ARC's environmental protection activities.