It starts with us.
Managing our land and water is essential for the survival of our farming businesses.
Amuri Irrigation Company (AIC) delivers water from the Waiau Uwha and Hurunui Rivers to 147 properties in the Amuri Basin. These properties support the families and businesses that make up our local community. Our outlook is a long term one - we know we need to continue to adapt in a way that protects our environment and delivers value to our shareholders, now and into the future, and we’re committed to investing in projects that help us achieve that goal.
Our Current Projects
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Balmoral Water Storage Facility
Increased minimum flows will have significant implications on AIC’s current reliability of supply and there is the risk of further increases in the future. These will limit AIC from taking water when the river is running at higher flows and introduce greater irrigation restrictions during the season. Additional storage capacity is intended to mitigate this loss of run-of-river reliability.
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Hydropower
Hydropower generation will utilise AIC’s existing infrastructure to produce renewable energy. When the pipe network was constructed in 2017, pipe was oversized at three sites in anticipation of future hydropower generation. AIC is currently developing two of those sites for hydropower generation with a combined maximum possible output of 3MW.
More detail coming soon!
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Environmental Initiatives
As part of our long term commitment to the Amuri Basin, we have a number of workstreams underway to enhance our understanding of catchment hydrology to ultimately improve water quality. The current focus for the water quality and hydrology work programme is on data consolidation and monitoring.
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Amuri Basin Future Farming
This three-year partnership programme is geared to accelerate irrigated farmers move towards a future of sustainable farming and build on AIC’s existing strategy to farm beyond regulatory minimums. It has a combined focus on the environment (freshwater, climate and biodiversity), farm profitability and community resilience.
