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Coastal Water Quality Areas as shwon in Map Series 1 in the Canterbury Regional Coastal Environment Plan (RCEP) 2005.
Areas as defined in Schedule 5 (Definitions of Areas and Sites) of the RCEP.
Each unit in the layers is classified for management in accordance with the following classes:
(i) Class Coastal AE waters (being water managed for the maintenance of aquatic ecosystems).
(ii) Class Coastal CR waters (being water managed for contact recreation and the maintenance of aquatic ecosystems).
(iii) Class Coastal SG waters (being water managed for shellfish gathering, contact recreation and the maintenance of aquatic ecosystems). |